In The News Vitamin B12

Dave Nettles — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:30:50 +0000

Vitamin B12

Women contemplating having children need to consider ahead of time are they getting enough B12 and folic acid in their diet. Stating it like a new discovery researchers are saying B12 and folic acid seriously cut the risk of birth defects to the spinal cord and brain.

The medical system in this country has gotten so full of itself the common sense is left out of the equation for medical treatment in this day and age.

In different parts of the world like Ireland the women there have the lowest levels of B12 of any other place. The women there are much more likely to have babies with neural tube defects than anywhere in the world. This coming out of the journal Pediatrics again like some new discovery when any first year medical student knows what vitamin B deficiencies causes.

The disability or death caused from neural tube defects and the two most common are the brain and skull bones do not develop normally. And another where the back bones and spinal cord do not develop correctly is called spina bifida.

The vitamin B deficiency risk factor is almost getting to be silly in this day and age. People act like it is not known along with doctors. Resolving the B vitamin deficiency is so easy and cheap there is no reason for these problems to occur. You can’t overdose on B vitamins and everyone can afford them.

Today the biggest reasons for the deficiencies are people no longer eat as much meat as years past. So we must get the B vitamins from supplements.

Why so Critical to Not Be Deficient in B Vitamins

Just B12 alone is required to maintain healthy red blood cells and nerve cells. Here is where is would be found in your diet; meat dairy, eggs, fish, shellfish and fortified breakfast cereals. All the things people no long eat or are told not to eat. Sure you can get the B12 injections from some doctors but they are so cheap they do not like to bother with them because they do not make any money off them.

All the B vitamins can be taken as an individual supplement or in a multivitamin.