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How Vitamin B12 Deficiency Can Affect Your Brain

Posted on February 14, 2016 By 9 Comments on How Vitamin B12 Deficiency Can Affect Your Brain

Going vegan might very probably be the best decision you have ever taken to live a long and healthy life while showing your love and care for all the animals that are still treated with unprecedented cruelty. A plant-based diet is extremely beneficial for your optimal health. However, it could come along with a B12 deficiency if you didn’t make sure to substitute this vitamin that is often found in animal products with the proper plant-based foods. Some of these foods are walnuts, carrots, berries and spinach. Make sure to read the following article very carefully in order to avoid any dysfunction due to vitamin B12 deficiency as it plays a major role when it comes to maintain your blood formation and your nervous system.

“The brains of the elderly and younger people with autism and schizophrenia may share a common link: Both have low levels of vitamin B12, researchers say.

The facts that blood levels of B12 do not always mirror brain levels of the vitamin, and that brain levels decrease more over the years than blood levels, may imply that various types of neurological diseases — such as old-age dementia and the disorders of autism and schizophrenia — could be related to poor uptake of vitamin B12 from the blood into the brain, the scientists said.

The findings, reported last month in the journal PLOS ONE, support an emerging theory that the human brain uses vitamin B12 in a tightly regulated manner to control gene expression and to spur neurological development at key points during life, from the brain’s high-growth periods during fetal development and early childhood, through therefining of neural networks in adolescence, and then into middle and old age.

Vitamin B12, also called cobalamin, plays a crucial role in blood formation and the normal functioning of the nervous system. The vitamin is found in foods derived from animal sources, although some plant-based foods can be fortified with B12. [6 Foods That Are Good For Your Brain]

In the new study, scientists led by Richard Deth, a professor of pharmacology at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, examined the brains of more than 60 deceased individuals, ranging in age from a fetus in a late stage of gestation to 80 years. The study included 12 people who had autism and nine with schizophrenia.

This is the first study to compare the levels of vitamin B12 in the brain across the human lifetime, Deth told Live Science. The vitamin B12 levels in the brain were 10 times lower in the oldest people compared with the youngest, reflecting a gradual, natural, and consistent decline over the years.

For the elderly, this decline might not be a bad thing. Lower levels at advanced ages may offer some degree of brain protection by slowing cellular reactions and the production of DNA-damaging chemicals called free radicals, Deth said. In previous work with his colleague Yiting Zhang of Northeastern University in Boston, Deth found that the body’s creation of biologically active forms of vitamin B12 produces free radicals as a waste product.

But levels of B12 that are too low can be detrimental. “At some point, an extreme decrease in metabolism…is not compatible with cell survival,” Deth said. Similarly, lower vitamin B12 levels can have negative consequences for people of younger ages, as the brain is still developing. Deth’s group found that the levels of vitamin B12 in the brains of young people with autism and in middle-age people with schizophrenia were about one-third of the levels found in similarly aged people who did not have these neurological conditions.”

Read the full article at vegan.com.

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Comments (9) on “How Vitamin B12 Deficiency Can Affect Your Brain”

  1. Caprice Insco says:
    February 15, 2016 at 12:32 am

    We all get it as a supplement in one form or another and it generally isn’t going to be linked to diet but to absorption …. You could eat whatever but if your body isn’t absorbing it properly, then that’s when it becomes a problem… Folic acid helps the absorption of b12 so every diet should include dark leafy greens and a b12 fortified food (like nut milks)

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  2. Autumn Blossom says:
    February 15, 2016 at 1:27 am

    Perfectly said.

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  3. Jenny E. Chauvin says:
    February 15, 2016 at 3:34 am

    How about a multivitamin?

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  4. Vanessa Pierson Vanderhoof says:
    February 15, 2016 at 4:39 am

    My plant based Cardiac Dr says 500 3xs a week

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  5. Crystal Lina says:
    February 15, 2016 at 12:00 pm

    Spirullina has the bodies most absorbable B12. It’s 65% protein and 30% iron.

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  6. Crystal Lina says:
    February 15, 2016 at 12:03 pm

    White rice also interferes with the bodies iron absorption. Vitamin C increases iron absorption by 50%. Green leafy vegetables are great because they are full of iron and vitamin C

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  7. Mary Crisman says:
    February 15, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    I take a multi and supplement with B12 twice a week on top of that

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  8. Anna Hammersley says:
    February 15, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    Craig Hammersley Ella Hammersley

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  9. Ella Hammersley says:
    February 15, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    Chill it’s in our soya milk

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