To digest vitamin B 12 non-destructively, it is cleaved from its protein complex in the stomach where haptocorrin strongly binds and protects the B 12 molecules from stomach acid and during assimilation and circulation in the blood.
It is cleaved from its protein complex in the stomach where haptocorrin strongly binds and protects the B 12 molecules from stomach acid and during assimilation and circulation in the blood. This was to digest vitamin B 12 non-destructively.