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This is actually close to home this week as P has recently gone vegan after having been vegetarian for 35 years. Last week he went to give blood and felt awful for the next few days. It usually takes him a while to recover - most people would go home and eat a steak, I …
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Interesting - be careful of B12 deficiency if you're on this very common diabetes drug. Daily Express 15.5.18 “IS DIABETES DRUG HIDING A DEADLY SECRET?” Every year 20 million prescriptions are written for Metformin, a glucose-lowering drug given to 90% of the 3 million Britons diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Yet patients are not being …
Useful podcast from Chris Kresser recently about B12 being under-diagnosed. I am being asked about the holotranscobalamin II, or holoTC form of B12 which detects early stage problems, which is why I was looking at it. I realised I have been a daftie recently because people have been asking me if I can get the holoTC …
Remember the post I wrote quite recently about the importance of B12 and how blood tests can really be misleading: B12 Deficiency: Fatigue, Muscle Pain, Brain Fog, Neuropathy Well, I have now finished my research on that so here's an update for you... How to confirm B12 and folate deficiency when your blood tests look …
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