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Vitamin B12

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Also called cobalamin, Vitamin B12 is one of the most complex of all the vitamins and is derived mainly from animal and dairy products like meat, poultry, milk, liver and fish. Vitamin B12 helps in the formation of red blood cells. It also develops a healthy nervous system and is also for synthesis of DNA, the genetic material. It is required in the bone marrow tissue, where the cells divide rapidly, to form red blood cells.

What's New on Vitamin B12

Vitamin B12 may protect against brain shrinkage

Vitamin B12 may protect against brain volume loss in older people, and ultimately reduce the risk of developing dementia, suggests a new study from the University of Oxford.

People with higher blood levels of the vitamin were six times less likely to experience brain shrinkage compared with people with lower vitamin levels, according to results published in the new issue of the journal Neurology. Read more


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