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disastrous long-term effect on the patient. Other causes of B12 fluid—the only source of these nutrients for the brain.'"'] deficiency include excessive long-term use of antibiotics and Dr Dommisse prefers vitamin B12 as hydroxycobalamin. A other drugs to mask symptoms without learning and correcting person taking cyanocobalamin from a pharmacy might over a their cause; oral antibiotics destroy the trillions of "good" bugs in long period of years accumulate a toxic amount of cyanide and the gut as well as the bad, thus ruining absorption.” possibly damage vision.''* (Many patients in Britain using ¢ Vegan Diets. Many vegan (total) vegetarians have for cyanocobalamin from a pharmacy did go blind due to damage to decades consumed few, if any, foods containing B12. As a result, the optic nerve, and few physicians knew of it [letter 9/3/05 from their body stores of the vitamin have gradually diminished. Wayne Martin, TL/DP contributing writer, Fairhope, Alabama]). Forty-seven of 78 adult vegans had levels below 200 pg/mL; Also, methylcobalamin, widely used in Japan, is increasingly when they chewed a 100-microgram B12 tablet once a week, their popular in the USA, in part because it is reputed to be better levels promptly rose to normal.“ Some vegans depend on sea absorbed. Certain OTC sublingual preparations provide vegetables such as arame, wakame and some varieties of kombu, methylcobalamin, which in the absence of alcoholic and other or on algae.* The B12 in these, although absorbed, may not be liver damage is the only version of B12 that penetrates the blood- fully bio-available.°* A study published in the May 2003 brain barrier (the choroid plexus) and reaches the brain and spinal Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (TL{DP) provided cord (Sherry A. Rogers, MD, Detoxify or Die, p. 270). strong evidence that a commonly consumed seaweed known as In Preventive Medicine Update (May 1995), Jeffrey Bland, nori does, in fact, contain bio-available forms of B12.” But PhD, reported: "Five clinician/subscribers have sent clinical case whether that substance is available to large histories. On high-dose folate/B12/B6, numbers of vegans and whether its use would homocysteine levels dropped... Also, a lift serum B12 levels enough is not known. Spector has number of reports have come...about patients And in a recent study from India published in . suffering with presenile dementia or Neurology India,' most of the B12-deficient hypothesised that Alzheimer-like symptoms. On IM B12, their people studied were "vegetarian". Alzheimer's is a MMA (methyl malonic acid levels, an . . . indication of deficient B12 status) came down Vitamin B12 Repletion Succeeds brain-vitamin- to normal range, and their walking, balance, Despite Risk Factors deficiency state due to gait, and perception improved. I've had In his study, Dr Dommisse does not reveal, . reports of individuals who had not been able or need to know, the proportion of his patients inadequate transport to read, start to read, people who had not been piseaperenes aD eck forex: | of vitamins from the | hil ik cee: my oma fluoridated water, have extensive dental blood across the who had movement dystonia, who after Sterol antvinflammatry druss, along "blood brain barrier" the car and be transported without fear with their famous multitude of adverse and into the of being unable to accommodate passing cece ove AD 4 et TM cerebrospinal fluid— JM >, tess yearns the only source of these nutrients for the brain. number of patients who have been improving folate/B12/B6 status, cutting exposed occupationally to electro- across neurological and arterial magnetic fields, which promote the functional status."'* formation of beta amyloid, a protein Because the typical environmentally ill common in the brains of Alzheimer's (ED) patient often has low zinc, B6 and patients.''"' Nor does he present any thyroid hormone levels, low chromium numbers showing high content of glucose tolerance factor (GTF) and high aluminium in AD patients’ brains!” from candida/low bifidus as well as low B12, consumption of aluminium-treated drinking water and/or to suggest B12 alone as the sole treatment would not be consistent from consuming a variety of everyday sources (refer also to the with holistic thinking, suggested Dr Earl Conroy.'* So, if high- combination of aluminium-containing alum with fluoridated water dose B12 doesn't do the trick pretty fast, consider additional in J. G. Hattersley, J Appl Nutr 2005). Dommisse's study also measures, guided by the results of the ION Panel test, if given.'° 103, 104 doesn't consider the extent of use of melatonin as a brain Little research has been published about B12 therapy for AD antioxidant to counteract accumulation of free-radical-creating and other neurological diseases, Dommisse writes, because of the iron,'* nor does it look at potentially brain-damaging ",..heavy pharmaceutical industry sponsorship of research and homocysteine in patients’ serum.'*'” teaching in medical schools. Career-track academicians have [As a side note, possible mechanisms for spinal cord and realised that, if they want to fulfill their ambitions, they have to peripheral nerve effects of vitamin B12 deficiency include axonal eschew nutritional research for that of drugs."* The volume of degeneration and demyelination of insulating nerve sheaths. '* published research on drugs to fight Alzheimer's disease is Deana et al. found low levels of neurotransmitters in the brains of overwhelming. To continue their careers, the authors of these B12-deficient rats.’ A University of Kentucky study found studies have a powerful financial incentive to report positive impaired G-protein signalling and proposed a feed-forward cycle results, whether truthful or not. Yet, the best that Alzheimer's of progressive neuronal dysfunction, related to phosphoinositide drugs can do is to conceal the symptoms for a while. The signalling." Spector et al. have hypothesised that idiopathic underlying cause—notably, deficiency of vitamin B12—continues (Alzheimer's) dementia is a brain-vitamin-deficiency state due to to worsen unabated. inadequate transport of vitamins from the blood across the choroid Continued on page 79 plexus (the "blood brain barrier") and into the cerebrospinal Spector has hypothesised that Alzheimer's is a and into the cerebrospinal fluid— the only source of these nutrients for the brain. 28 = NEXUS brain-vitamin- | blood across the | "blood brain barrier" Continued on page 79 www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2007