Need Help: Wife Gets LBM with Certain Types of Foods

[goodsamaritan]

Need your help and thoughts guys.

My wife gets B12 deficiencies so she has gotten 2 B12 shots over 2 months so far.

I figure it is better for her to get her B12 from real food.

But she complains she gets intense diarrhea / LBM / stomach flu from the b12 rich foods as:

- oysters (raw or roasted)
- clams (souped or raw)
- liver (rare or raw)

Other things she complains about:

- raw blue marlin sashimi
- she shudders at the thought of eating raw beef but can eat it seared.

But she is able to eat, digest, without diarrhea:

- raw farmed salmon
- raw tuna
- raw duck eggs

Any thoughts and suggestions welcome.

[yuli]

you haven't mentioned good quality raw red meat, force her (to your best abilities) to give that a shot....
I love fish, eggs and organs but raw red meat I feel gives me optimum nutrition, try it on her

[MoonStalkeR]

Does she eat said foods on an empty stomach? Maybe combining small amounts of the offending foods with the digestible ones?

[kurite]

Try  some high quality probiotics

[bharminder]

Liver and clams are higher than most b-12 sources. eggs are good too, according to www.whfoods.org. beef


Eating those foods cooked, even well done, is better than not eating them at all.


Another option is b-12 supplements or injections. Better than doing nothing.


A key thing here is to research what conditions the body needs to be in to properly absorb the b-12 from the food one eats. Sometimes if there is some other condition in the body that is not right (like a mineral or vitamin deficiency(other than b-12))  then all the b-12 in the world won't change b-12 levels.

[achillezzz]

Give her the cooked version so she get out of the deficiency then teach her rawness!

Cook some liver with onions she will eat it 

[bharminder]

I ate some clams and oysters today and got some abdominal cramps.

Do you, soak the clams and oysters in high quality vinegar for her?

Sometimes I soak them, but usually I don't.