Today when we were having breakfast with Chris and the guys at Jamba Juice the topic of vitamin B was raised. Therefore I thought of a short summary about these essential water-soluble vitamins that play important roles in cell metabolism. We know 8 different vitamin Bs. Their roles are manifold. Various enzyme activities depend on vitamin B complex. It influences growth, development, metabolism, the functioning of cells, their regeneration and their turn-over. Immune cells and nerve cells need vitamin B complex.

B vitamins are particularly concentrated in meat, and other good sources are potatoes, bananas, lentils, chili peppers, beans, liver oil, liver, turkey, tuna, yeast, brewer’s yeast, and molasses. Marmite and Vegemite are famous for being one of the world’s richest known sources of vitamin B. As might be expected, due to its high content of brewer’s yeast, non-filtered beer is a source of B vitamins.

Just about everyone in the Western worls already gets all of the B vitamins they could possibly need in their diets… Extra B vitamins are generally just flushed out of the system—although everyone’s limit of absorption is different in regards to B complex vitamins and no-one knows how much is needed on an individual basis of these vitamins…

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and: Biestmilch is the most powerful food in the world …!

Biestmilch is the most powerful food in the world from susann kräftner on Vimeo.

This is our first Biestmilch commercial, and it is partly a condensed condensation of macca09, my journey around the world with Chris McCormack. Moreover, you see the faces of our biestmilch athletes Yvonne van Vlerken, Nicole Leder and Sebastian Kienle.

Thanks a lot to Fritz Oelberg who did all the editing and conceptional work.

Behind me now lie 5 weeks of intense traveling. Seeing various places on this world makes you change your views or at least the angle of how you look at certain things. When sitting at home safely plunged in daily routines the world looks definitely different. Traveling is rewarding in many aspects but it has its energy draining effects too. Myself drifting in certain haze of exhaustion since then (yesterday 1:00 am I came back from Mallorca, giving a speech on biestmilch in a triathlon training camp) browsed since very long time again through rocketboom’s vlogs and bumped into this food issue.
In our Western hemisphere we talk so much about healthy food and biological energy (healthy energy) without seeing the far-reaching consequences for other parts in the world. For us from Biestmilch Seven food is of fundamental concern as biestmilch is very precious food that is so underestimated in our parts of the world and so highly valued in countries  that have got so very little to feed their people. This is bizarre. Obviously biestmilch and its preventive potential is of extraordinary value if you have not got enough food. But sorry, I zone out, perhaps you find some time to listen to this interesting presentation.

On the weekend while I was trying for the umpteenth time to find comprehensible words to express the power and versatility of biestmilch, and while I was struggling to find these words, I took a break and listened to this talk of Peter Reinhart and was thrilled. A vague feeling crept into me that this had something to do with our beloved biestmilch. Bread is stapel food for people all over the world, it belongs to the essentials of human life, it is full of myths and it is science, it is nature and it is man made… the art of making bread reveals traditions, beliefs and science.

Reinhard’s talk made me happy because it shows in a wonderful way presented by a brilliant brain how the process of baking bread can be seen, if one pays attention to it, analyzes it and doesn’t take it for granted, if the scientific knowledge we have is applied to it without forgetting the metaphoric power of bread. (more…)