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Any parent would be horrified to see their child have a seizure. For one family in League City, their baby hardly ever stopped having them. It turns out, the reason didn’t require harsh medications and treatments - but a vitamin. Learn the details on this shocking deficiency that’s been exposed, thanks to a local doctor. When Violet Raney was an infant something terrible happened. She started having seizures, one right after another, all day long. Medications didn’t work until she was so drugged and could barely move. “They’re not the best, they’re not the kindest, they can affect your liver,”...

UK researchers have found that high doses B-vitamins – including folic acid, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 – can slow down brain tissue atrophy, a wasting process associated with Alzheimer’s disease.David Smith of the University of Oxford, and colleagues, used randomised controlled trials to test the long-term effects of B-vitamins on the brain health of elderly people with mild cognitive impairment, who were classed as having an increased risk of dementia. They found the brains of those treated with B-vitamins shrank less over a two year period than those given a placebo, and experienced less atrophy in regions of grey...

Scientists have determined that Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium that causes peptic ulcers and some forms of stomach cancer, requires the vitamin B6 to establish and maintain chronic infection, according to research published this week in the online journal mBio™. This finding, along with the identification of the enzyme the microbe requires to utilize the vitamin, could lead to the development of an entirely new class of antibiotics. "Approximately half the world's population is infected with H. pylori, yet how H. pylori bacteria establish chronic infections in human hosts remains elusive. To our knowledge, this study is the first to describe...