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39% of americans are low in B12, because they often have absorbtion issues caused by pollution, smoking, surgeries, radioactive exposure. I take b12 supplements and get my levels checked. I also follow the McDougall diet which shreds the pounds like crazy. More info here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVf36nwraw ( and don't let the title give you the wrong impression)
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691
I suffer from B12 deficiency. I was diagnosed like 5 years ago when I failed all my classes, was suffering from a lot of stress, hand shaking, a tiny bit of memory loss, having a hard time concentrating, feeling sad sometimes without a reason, sleeping problems and losing weight.
I started with a shot on a weekly basis for 2 months I think and then once a month for a couple of months or so.
It totally fixed me. I remember I felt the change around the 2nd shot.
All those symptoms I mentioned were gone for good. During the next years, when I started feeling funny I get a B12 count in a nearby lab and if I'm low on B12, just do the weekly shot for 1 month or so. It I'm not low it's probably just stress.
So, to answer your question. If you indeed suffer from B12 deficiency I totally recommend it. The coolest part is that if you pee after getting the shot, your pee will look purple-ish. But, if you don't have that problem, I don't see why you would want to get shots.
Go to a lab to get a B12 count, consider if you are feeling symptoms and decide from there. There's a cool book about B12 deficency.
Here: http://www.amazon.com/Could-It-Be-B12-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691
This is the book I brouyght that helped me. It does in fact say in that book that even psychosis/manic depression can be a symptom that's why I ask. I displayed manic depressive symptoms but they're weren't quite right. This is why. The B12.
My wife (mid-40s) suffers from strange tingling and numbness in her face, hands, legs ... been happening for years. She's wondering if it could be caused by low B12 (she also has had ulcurative colitis since childhood).
Her serum B12 levels come back as "normal", but she's been reading about something where that test can be deceptive that it doesn't show the amount of B12 that's actually active in your cells ... or something like that, she can describe it better.
There's books on the subject (specifically "Could It Be B12") that suggest an aggressive "B12 shot a day for a week" (or until symptoms subside) and then B12 shot a week, then one a month for life.
Do you have any familiarity with any of this? Thanks!
> She was not a vegan/vegetarian!
*Ahem* From her own "about" page:
>>Tara's Affiliations Include
>> Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
>> Greater New York Dietetic Association
>> Chinese Americans in Nutrition and Dietetics (2015 award winner)
>> Nutrition Entrepreneurs DPG (2016 award winner, current PR/Marketing Coordinator)
>>* Weight Management DPG
Gee, I wonder what those "affiliate" organizations she was a member of promote for diets...
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The largest organization of healthcare professionals in the country officially deemed the vegan diet best for health and the environment.
What's more, their official site heavily promotes vegetarianism AND veganism, even for infants and small children.
Their basic "Dietary Guidelines" are the generic government promoted "MyPlate" -- which is essentially a vegetarian/vegan (and heavily ANTI-meat, ANTI-animal food) -- a sightly updated version of the abysmal "food pyramid" that was POLITICALLY crafted back in the mid 1970's, and which are the ROOT cause of the vast majority of America's present obesity, chronic gastrointestinal, and chronic mental illnesses.
This is the shit diet she was trained in, and it was the shit diet she SOLD, and the shit diet that she ate.
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>She ate meat and delicious healthy foods that she also recommended to her patients, myself included.
Ayah, she may very well have eaten a trivial portion of "meat" (or more likely faux-meat) things in trendy-foodie meals; unfortunately that isn't sufficient to offset the manifold health problems that come from eating a high-carb crap food diet.
Add on that -- depending on what supplements she was taking and what medications -- OTC as well as prescription -- that she was on (and given the present era, the pervasive use of such medications in our society -- especially amount women of her general age range -- combined with her own statements of a DECADE of mental health problems, and her professional states... I would be GREATLY surprised if she wasn't on several different such medications: psychoactive as well as "gastrointestinal" issues) those same medications & supplements almost certainly INHIBITED or blocked the uptake of several critical things that animal food products contain, not the least of which being B12 (which is NOT a single compound, but rather a very complex array of chemically related compounds) as well as IF (aka "intrinsic factor").
Her occasional eating of small amounts of meat -- especially when prepared in various "trendy/foodie" restaurant meal form -- was almost certainly abysmally insufficient to overcome the gradual and steady depletion of critical things from her body; and nowhere NEAR sufficient to help her recover from what was apparently multiple-decades of an inadequate/problematic diet.
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Oh and in terms of the whole "delicious" -- candy-like coatings & sauces, and overspiced foods -- are NOT the same as "healthy" eating.
 
As for yourself: Aye and what were & are your problems?
What supplements are you taking? How many different prescription medications -- including mental health as well as ones to deal with your digestion & other physical issues -- are you taking on a regular and/or intermittent basis?
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>She was a great nutritionist and a very pleasant, sweet, beautiful person in real life.
She put on a false front. From her "good bye" (or "see you later") pre-suicide note:
>>"I truly have a great life *on paper.***"
Implication: but not in reality.
>>"However, all these facets seem trivial to me. It’s the ultimate first world problem, I get it. I often **felt detached while in a room full of my favorite people; I also felt absolutely nothing during what should have been the happiest and darkest times in my life."
Moreover this was not some temporary or RECENT thing... she began that "good bye" note with the following:
>>"I have written this note several times in my head for over a decade, and this one finally feels right. No edits, no overthinking. I have accepted hope is nothing more than delayed disappointment, and *I am just plain old-fashioned tired of feeling tired.***"
OVER A DECADE... since she was now a mere 27, that means since she was at least 17, 16 possibly younger.
Given her statement on her about page that her father was a "foodie" -- I'm inclined to believe that she very likely NEVER ate a healthy diet a day in her life; from childhood onward -- and as she never KNEW what an actually "healthy" diet or a healthy "life" (mentally as well as physically healthy); well she had no way of knowing that what she was taught, what she learned to regurgitate and teach others in turn... was anything & everything BUT a healthy diet.
NO matter how many "official" -- or quasi-official, "professional" and so called "expert" -- stamps of approval get placed on such.
Labels are just labels.
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>How dare you people writing this about her not knowing her in person?!
Well she killed herself; and as noted above, she was apparently never REAL with anyone in her life -- whatever emotions she showed were (per her own words) hollow and fake... NOT actually "felt" inside.
Plain fact or the matter is that you actually didn't know her at all.
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That's SAD.
What would be SADDER still... would be to DENY the very problems that caused her to needlessly suffer so much, and for so long; only to end her own life in such a truly tragic manner.
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Save yourself from similar chronic suffering, and a potentially similar sad fate: Could It Be B12?: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses**
B12 er svært at få, men løses ved at spise en pille. Det er i øvrigt ikke kun veganere som har brug for B12, mange kødspisere får også for lidt, og https://www.amazon.co.uk/Could-B12-An-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691 er spændende læsning for alle.
Jeg supplerer min diæt med B-12, carnosine, vitamin D, vitamin A, DHA+EPA og magnesium, det er i øvrigt også anbefalet at kødspisere gør dette.
Meget forskning peger på at de fleste plantespisere får nok og korrekt protein: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-vegetarians-get-enough-protein/
I liked this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691
also that chris kesser has done podcasts on the subject I believe. He is a good listen...has been on Joe Rogan's podcast a few times.