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Vitamin B12

Vitamin B12 Benefits

1) Pain Relief: It reduces the clinical symptoms in legs such as paresthesia (an abnormal sensation like tingling or pricking), burning pains, and spontaneous pain.

 It is effective in alleviating lower back pain.

2) Brain Health: It may have a role in the prevention of disorders of brain development and mood disorders as well as Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia in the elderly.

B12 also increases the regeneration of axons and promotes neuronal repair.

3) Sleeping Patterns: It improves sleep-wake rhythm disorders in human subjects.

4) Depression: B12 supplementation improved depressive symptoms. Prolonged consumption (several weeks to years) may decrease the risk of depression.

Negative Effects of Deficiency

The long-term consequences of less severe B12 deficiency may include adverse effects on pregnancy, vascular, cognitive, bone and eye health.

 

B12 deficiency in women is associated with infertility and miscarriage.

 

Individuals with B12 deficiency have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors such as heart failure, stroke, and diabetes.

 

Deficiency of B12 may cause darkening of the skin.

 

Vitamin B12 plays an essential role in the production of red blood cells and low red blood cells can indicate a B12 deficiency. Weakness and fatigue can result if your red blood cells are low since you are not getting enough oxygen to tissues.

 

Deficiency of B12 can cause psychiatric and cognitive problems and pins & needles.  

Low levels of B12 have been linked to depression and Alzheimer’s disease and other types of cognitive impairment.