Vitamin B 12 and the aging brain
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/well/mind/vitamin-b12-as-protection-for-the-aging-brain.html?_r=0
Jane Brody wrote a recent piece for the New York Times saying she eats a well balanced diet and hasn't felt the need for supplements, although does take Vitamin D. However, now she is looking into B12 supplementation at age 75.
“Depression, dementia and mental impairment are often associated with” a deficiency of B12 and its companion B vitamin folate, “especially in the elderly,” Dr. Rajaprabhakaran Rajarethinam, a psychiatrist at Wayne State University School of Medicine, has written.
Jane Brody wrote a recent piece for the New York Times saying she eats a well balanced diet and hasn't felt the need for supplements, although does take Vitamin D. However, now she is looking into B12 supplementation at age 75.
“Depression, dementia and mental impairment are often associated with” a deficiency of B12 and its companion B vitamin folate, “especially in the elderly,” Dr. Rajaprabhakaran Rajarethinam, a psychiatrist at Wayne State University School of Medicine, has written.
Labels: cognitive impairment, diet research, Vitamin B12
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