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Science Round-Up Seconds: "Tomatorade(R)" or Why Tomato Juice is the Better Intra- & Postworkout Beverage. Up to 90% B12 Deficiency in Vegetarians & Vegans. Aluminum in Your Testes? Not With Vitamin E & Zinc.

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Can't find "Tomatorade(R)", at your local supplement store, yet (surprising, right ;-)? The guys over @ SimplyRecipes have an easy and tweakable recipe describing how you can make your own "Tomatorade" or however you want to call it (photo by SimplyRecipes). If you listened live to yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on Super Human Radio , you will probably have noticed that due to the technical problems and my teacherly tendency to talk for hours, Carl Lanore and I did not cover all the topics ( click here do download the podcast if you haven't already done so)... but hey, that leaves more stuff for today, doesn't it? I guess I will best package the newsitems into three servings, starting out with the one I like best, namely my Tomatorade(R) aka plain tomato juice news... but before I do so, I must thank Maxim Okhrimenko who corrected the statement I made about vodka in Russian babies' tea or other beverages. Nor...
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Want B12, But Hate Meat? Drink Milk! SNAC-Fortified Cyanocobalamin 136% More Bioavailable Than Standard B12 - Still Less Effective Than B12 From Cow's Milk

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Figure 1: Milk still rules the world (of B12 supplements ;-) Vitamin B12 deficiency is probably more prevalent, than many people would have it. The water-soluble vitamin is most abundant in foods of animal origin and vegetarians (let alone vegans) are as much at risk of having inadequate B12 levels, as people with achlorhydria and, consequently, low intrinsic factor (an enzyme that requires an acidic environment to function and facilitate the utilization of B12 from foodstuff), or more generalized disturbances of the gastrointestinal structure due to aging (food-cobalamin malabsorption becomes increasingly prevalent after the age of 50), gastric resection, ileal resection, Crohn's disease, and bacterial overgrowth of the intestine. With vitamin B12 deficiency affecting cell division and precipitating to megaloblastic anaemia and neuropathy, close monitoring not only of vitamin B12 intake, but also of its proper utilization...
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