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B12 and Aging?

Posted Apr 10 2009 7:56am

 

 As a caregiver, I wonder if B12 really helps in aging?  I've been reading  a lot about it.  My husband takes it as a part of a preventive for heart care per his doctors instructions, but these articles below are the first I've read about it helping with dementia and aging. 

Nutrition For The Elderly

Healthy eating and nutrition for the elderly is greatly impacted by several factors, one of them being a change in body composition. During the later years in life, the body will lose bone and muscle and gain fat because the hormones ...

Information on Vitamin B12

Some research suggests that elderly people may benefit from 10 to 25 mcg per day of vitamin B12. One study of elderly people with vitamin B12 deficiency suggested that as much as 500 to 1000 mcg of vitamin B12 per day might be necessary ...

Vitamin B-12 and Brain Health « SupplementalScience.com

The DV for vitamin B12 is 6.0 micrograms (μg). Posted in A-Supreme, Food, Health, Longevity, Reports, Tests and Studies | Tagged brain, dementia, elderly, fortification, mental health, neural, vitamin b-12 | No Comments ...

The Wii - Exercise - B12 Deficiency - Dementia - Methylmalonic ...

In addition, B12 deficiency causes frequent falls—and we see an array of elderly coming in with hip fractures and other bone fractures—that we test in the ER—and have a true B12 deficiency. We are wasting billions of health care dollars ...

Nutrition For The Elderly | The All About Cooking Blog

Vitamin B12 In order to absorb the benefits of B12, the intrinsic facotr must be produced by the stomach. Most elderly people suffer from a deficiency in B12 because they have a condition known as atrophic gastritis. This ...

Has anyone had success with this supplement and dementia? 

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