The Glade 4.0

Cyanocobalamin
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplemen ... ITAMIN+B12

Has anyone tried this? My friend gave me a shot today (3/10 CC) claiming it boosts energy, enhances mood and various other snake-oil maladies.

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did you notice a difference?

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Ron Paul 2012

Not as of yet but this was a bad weekend to pilot it. I was busy from dawn to dusk from Friday until right now.

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Vitamin B12 has the most difficult and complex absorption path of any vitamin.

Basically it must be bound to a protein in the stomach in an acidic environment. Then this complex must travel down to the end of the small intestine (illium) where it is absorbed. So if one takes an antacid, or does not make the protein or enough acid or has an illness like Crohn's disease or has the ilium removed you will not absorb this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12



See above for description and pictures.

If you lack enough vitamin B12, you will likely develop anemia and then neurologic damage. Plenty of folic acid (which they are giving now because it prevents Spina Bifida) will prevent the anemia from developing, so people get the neurologic damage and the cause gets missed.

Missing the diagnosis is tragic because if caught early enough the neurologic damage can be reversed.

Blood levels for vitamin B12 are controversial. Technically "normal" is any level > 200. However, 10% of people can develop neurologic damage with levels between 200 and 400.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

What if it is administered as a subcutaneous injection?

/edit I misspelled it as sub-c-u-n-t-aneous and the whole word was ***'d out. Weird.

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Er.... sorry for not checking back. B12 injections are better given IM (intramuscularly).

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

Hopwin - I hear its better if you take it as a suppository. Try it and let us know.

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The Dude abides.

I avoid vitamins. I'm afraid of them **** up my thyroid medication.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."