Could Your Memory Problems Be a Lack of This Vitamin?

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Low B12 levels can impair your brain and cause memory problems and reasoning deficits. Even worse, brain scans reveal that those with signs of insufficient B12 are more likely to have shrinkage of brain tissue, vascular damage and patches of dead brain cells than are people with higher levels of the vitamin.

In the studies, sometimes the serum B12 levels were normal but homocysteine or MMA (methylmalonic acid) levels suggested B12 deficiency.

What’s important is to get a B12 blood level done along with homocysteine and MMA and a careful neurological exam. The condition is treatable.

B-vitamin therapy stops memory decline in people who began with high homocysteine levels as was shown after giving B vitamins, including B6, B12 and folic acid, to a group of people over age 70 for two years in participants who had mild cognitive impairment.

The body tends to absorb B12 poorly after age 50, and several medicines further diminish the vitamin’s uptake. So for many people, especially those with high homocysteine it make senses to take these vitamins and often a shot once a week will ensure they get into the body and into the brain to have their protective effect.

This is one of the reasons why at Lifeworks we recommend a series of Myers cocktails. These are short IV drips which contain these essential B vitamins (B12, Folate, B6, B5, and B complex) in addition to Magnesium and Calcium and give an energy lift as well as brain lift. For some extra mental zing we can add to the mix Ginko, Taurine, and mental sharpening homeopathics like cerebrum compositum.

Come in today and give your game an upgrade.

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