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I was reading a newsletter today and it said that a program of high dose Vitamin B12 could prevent or even stop the development of Alzheimer’s dementia.  This isn’t something you would need to travel to the far and obscure corners of the earth to find. You can do it at home.

With around 2.3 million Americans suffering from this terrible fate and the odds increasing every year past 60, not to mention the skyrocketing costs of nursing home care, it seems to me that such a simple approach is too easy and too cheap to ignore.

 

We are born with serum levels of vitamin B12 at about 2,000 pg/mL and – at least here in the Western world, those levels decline through our life.  It is therefore suggested that most cases of Alzheimer’s dementia are actually missed B12 deficiency cases according to John V. Dommisse, MD in 1991, Medical Hypotheses. He further states that replenishing those levels can reverse up to three quarters of the cases of B12 deficiency dementias if caught early enough.

 

The risk of overdose of B12 is virtually nil and even reaching levels of B12 100 times and higher than those of a newborn created no significant side effects.

 

There are other conditions that benefit from B12 replenishment as well including Depression and in mild form, depression can be on of the first indications foretelling dementia. 

 

B12 deficiency is also linked to Paranoid psychosis, bipolar-1 and bipolar-2 disorders and chronic fatigue syndrome.  It can contribute to weakened immunity which can lead to many issues like recurrent infections and even cancer and cardiovascular disease.

And the list goes on – Asthma can arise from incomplete digestion. Nutritional B12 deficiencies can contribute to sleeping and waking rhythms, environmental illness, low stress tolerance, Osteoporosis (usually only associated by most people with a calcium deficiency) AIDS, premature aging.  Symptoms of Multiple sclerosis have been noted in people with a B12 deficiency.

 

The big question is just how many cases of mood disorder are caused by B12 deficiency. Patients who were suffering from mood disorders, with B12 levels in the lowest one third of the population (a level now considered to be deficient) all reported feeling better when those levels were increased to be equal to the highest one third of the population and for some patients, who came out of their depressive state or stopped experiencing mood swings, the only significant difference in their lives was the change in B12 levels.

 

A feasible approach to increase your levels of B12 is to use sublingual B12 at 2,500 to 5,000 mcg . Taken this way, the evidence indicates that the vitamin travels via the lymphatic versus the digestive system.

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