'Healthy' vitamin B12 levels not enough to ward off neuro decline: Experts call for new recommendations for older adults

Medical Xpress / University of California, San Francisco / Annals of Neurology ^ | Feb. 19, 2025 | Alexandra Beaudry‐Richard et al

[ConservativeMind]

“Blood B12 amounts averaged 414.8 pmol/L” were still noted as not being enough, despite being four-fold higher than the minimum “healthy” level of tested B12.

Being in the upper end of the Normal range is best.

Your brain’s white matter acquires more damage when not getting enough B12.

[ConservativeMind]

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[jonrick46]

What is causing the white brain cell damage?

[Cold Heart]

Banging one’s head against a wall should sufice.

[steve86]

Oxidative damage is part of it.

[ransomnote]

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled 'Healthy' vitamin B12 levels not enough to ward off neuro decline: Experts call for new recommendations for older adults, jonrick46 wrote:

What is causing the white brain cell damage?

Kamala Harris.

[FreedomPoster]

I can see listening to too much Kamala Harris word salad being damaging to brain cells.

[Bob434]

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See what I did there? Cambridge study found that it doesn’t matter how words are spelled, the brain can work and figure it out in most cases, but ti takes more work, execercising the brain in th process. So I order all my books with spelling errors only 😆

[TheThirdRuffian]

Alcohol abuse lowers b12 absorption, so Kamala is a prime candidate

[Secret Agent Man]

RDA requirements are grossly low, they are absolute minimums but those minimums are too low to begin with. The food we eat now is severely deficient in nutrients.

[RummyChick]

There is a really good article on this on the Mayo clinic website that goes into detail about the various problems with b12 and how often doctors get it wrong and why testing for it is problematic. I think the many faces of cobalamin is part of the title

[Secret Agent Man]

B12 is also crucial for red blood cell production.

[Adder]

Sharp thoughts...

[Katya]

you want to ward off cognitive decline? don’t take statins, keep your blood sugar balanced without resorting to meds...

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Given what I see in modern publishing and journalism, we should all be Einsteins by now.

[peggybac]

I take 500mcg daily - is that enough?

[Bob434]

Try the sublingual version too- might be absorbed better.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We take a super B complex vitamin from CVS everyday as part of our regimen. Its mostly B12 with some B6 and a bunch of other trace minerals.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for the referral to the Mayo Clinic article. Here it is...

Volume 3, Issue 2P200-214
June 2019

The Many Faces of Cobalamin (Vitamin B12) Deficiency

Autors:
Bruce H.R. Wolffenbuttel, MD, PhD
Hanneke J.C.M. Wouters, BSc
M. Rebecca Heiner-Fokkema, PhD
Melanie M. van der Klauw, MD, PhD

[RummyChick]

That is it. I found it very informative.