Vitamin B12 is among the most important nutrients your body needs for growth, development, and smooth functioning. your body, ...

Could your “healthy” vitamin B12 levels still be putting you at risk for cognitive decline? A new UCSF study suggests normal B12 levels may not protect against decline in older adults.

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Curious whether that so-called “normal” vitamin B12 result on your blood test is really enough to keep your brainpower, as ...

Several of my elderly patients (older than age 75 years) were initially vitamin B12-deficient. A few months after treatment with oral and/or intramuscular supplements, laboratory reports showed ...

The study also found healthy elderly people in the age range of 61-80 have about three times lower levels of total brain B12 than younger age groups, which is a result of normal ageing.

A new study has found that, in older people, both lower and higher levels of vitamin B12 may be associated with cognitive issues, even when these levels are within the normal range.

Older people are more likely to get vitamin B12 deficiencies because it is absorbed from food by stomach acid. As you age, however, your stomach acid starts to decline.

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ANSWER: The DV (a replacement for what we used to call the recommended daily allowance, or RDA) for vitamin B12 is 2.4 mcg. (There are 1,000 micrograms in a milligram, so 2.4 mcg is a very small ...

It is clinically justified to screen acute older adult psychiatric inpatients for B12 deficiency whether or not cognitive symptoms are present given the highly prevalent and easily treatable possible ...