This crippler is a master of masquerade, striking different people in different ways. It afflicts one person with tremors, makes another depressed or psychotic, and causes agonizing leg and arm pains in still another. It can mimic Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, early Parkinson's disease, diabetic neuropathy, or chronic fatigue syndrome. It can make men or women infertile, or cause development disabilities in their children. Other times it lurks silently, stealthily increasing its.
Victim's risk of deadly diseases ranging from stroke and heart attacks to cancer.
This medical disorder stems from a vitamin deficiency, but your standard multivitamin pill won't prevent it in many cases, and even high-dose oral formulas of this vitamin may not help. It's considered an "old people's disease" by doctors, but it can strike any person at any age, and it sometimes hits children the hardest. The disorder is vitamin B[subscript 12], deficiency. If you develop this deficiency it's easy to spot, easy to treat, and easy to cure-but only if your doctor diagnoses.
You before it's too late. Unfortunately, that frequently doesn't happen.
This isn't a new or fad disease. In fact, you'll find it listed in the textbooks of any first-year medical student. It's not a rare disease, either: If you're over forty, you're at an elevated risk for B[subscript 12] deficiency, and if you're over sixty, you have up to a 40 percent chance of having dangerously low B[subscript 12] levels.
In Could It Be B[subscript 12]? R.N. Sally M. Pacholok and her physician husband Jeffrey J. Stuart D. O., cite the extensive research done by numerous medical centers and universities that proves B[subscript 12] deficiency plays a defining role in many seemingly hopeless problems. But even in the face of these studies, this disorder has somehow been overlooked by the general medical field and is often misdiagnosed. The authors include numerous case histories and offer strategies on how to.
Learn if you or a loved one may be suffering from a B[subscript 12] deficiency. Book jacket.
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