Interesting Information: December 8, 2013
Vitamin B12 Deficiency
My father’s body stopped being able to use the B12 vitamin in his later years–which is a malabsorption issue.
He got B12 shots, but he slipped into dementia (not Alzheimers) anyway a few years later.
The Spring 2013 issue of The Weston A. Price Foundation’s journal Wise Traditions, Nutrition and Behavior, discusses at length the connections between human violence and other behavioral issues and the lack of nutrients–vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and so forth.
Sylvia Onusic, PhD. CNS, LDN, in “Violent Behavior: A Solution in Plain Sight” (Wise Traditions, Spring 2013) discusses the lack of B12.
Here’s the link: http://www.westonaprice.org/environmental-toxins/violent-behavior-a-solution-in-plain-sight
Here’s what Onusic said about the lack of B12:
Vitamin B12 deficiency has a well-known correlation with mental disorders, including irrational anger. A higher incidence of low B12 is found in mental patients than in the general population. Deficiencies cause mental symptoms ranging from poor concentration, depression and severe agitation to hallucinations [citation here]. Deficiencies are caused by pernicious anemia, an autoimmune condition; they are also found in vegetarians and vegans, those with low animal protein intake, and individuals with leaky gut. Drugs including anesthetics can deplete B12 [citation here].
My dad, as I said above, had some sort of malabsorption going on. He was thin as a rail though my mother, a great cook, fed him very well. He took a boat load of drugs for allergies and asthma. (We know now that most food allergies and asthma can be associated with foods and an impaired immune system–not to mention all the chemicals washing over our world these days. My dad lived across the road from an agricultural field that held skull-and-crossbones signs at its four corners.) He probably had leaky gut…
Anyway, this article is interesting…
And gives us a lot of information to contemplate.
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