MicroLingual® Technology and the benefits of Vitamin B12
Instant Dissolve Vitamin B12
This tablet was made for B12 delivery!
Our instant dissolve MicroLingual® tablets bypass the digestive system. This concept is vital for vitamin B12 supplementation 1. When typical vitamin B12 tablets or capsules are swallowed, they head to the stomach where the potency of any supplement is lost due to the high acid environment. The amount that remains — about 50% of what was swallowed — heads into the digestive tract.
Here, vitamin B12 can only be absorbed into the body if it comes in contact with a special protein in the gut, called intrinsic factor. Intrinsic factor has to happen upon the vitamin B12 and lock onto it in order to bring it through the intestinal wall. This is a very inefficient process that results in limited absorption of supplemented vitamin B12. The MicroLingual® system bypasses all that. Held under the tongue, the supplement is absorbed directly into the bloodstream, resulting in an immediate B12-vitamin boost.
Plant-based foods do not contain any B12, which can lead to challenges for people who do not eat meat. Also, regardless of dietary habits, as people age the digestive system has more trouble absorbing B12. Anyone age 40 or older can benefit from supplementing this vitamin.
- Georges Delpre MD; Pinhas Stark, MD; Yaron Niv, MD. Sublingual therapy for cobalim (B12) deficiency as an alternative to oral and parenteral cobalim supplementation. The Lancet. 1999, Aug 28:354: 740-741.
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