cc <cpasuneadresse@spam.com> wrote:

> > "the" B vitamin? Which one? It can't be the one that vegans are most in
> > danger of running short on, because there's none of it in sesame, nor in
> > any other non-animal foodstuff.
> 
> I am not vegan or a chemist. 

So I see. 

> Someone explained me that intaking a normally non-assimilable form of that
> B1 or B2  (?)from sesame and combining it with exposition to the sun made
> the body synthetise the missing vitamin or a substitute.

Looks like you've got confused between vitamins B12 and D? 

> That'd be how certain long term vegans (Tibetan or Korean mountain monks)
> live relatively healthy.

Long-term vegans need more than sesame to stay healthy. I suggest you do
some homework before repeating such dangerous myths.
 
> Homeless's problem is more about how to survive between two bits of meat. I
> was just saying that to explain you don't necessarily get into a "coma" if
> you lack animal protein intake.
> .

Yes, but proteins are not vitamins (note that healthy adults do not need
much protein, and it doesn't have to be animal protein anyway). 

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