Life Extension Vitamin B12 Methylcobalamin 5 mg, 60 vege lozenges (Expiry June 2025)
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Our Vitamin B12 lozenges can be
dissolved in your mouth or chewed as a convenient way to ensure optimal B12
levels, which support healthy homocysteine levels, brain health and cognition.
What Is Vitamin B12
(Methylcobalamin)?
Vitamin B12, also
called cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin. It helps with nerve and blood
cell health while also playing a role in DNA synthesis. While we usually get it
through animal-based or fortified foods, digestive challenges that come with
aging can affect absorption. Maintain healthy levels with B12 supplementation.
Vegetarians and the elderly tend to be the ones most
challenged with maintaining healthy levels of vitamin B12.
Vitamin B12 Benefits
- Helps maintain healthy homocysteine levels (a marker of cardiovascular, neurological & general health)
- Supports brain health & cognition
- Important for red blood cell production
Essential for Cellular
Health
There are eight B vitamins, each with
their own set of important roles in maintaining health throughout the body.
Methylcobalamin is a form of vitamin B12 that is active in the central nervous
system. It is essential to the growth and replication of cells. Our lozenges
supply 5 mg of methylcobalamin each.
Vitamin
B12 is present in foods of animal origin, including dairy products and eggs.
Vegetarians and the elderly are especially susceptible to deficiency of this
important nutrient, which may be caused by low dietary intake, inadequate
bioavailability or poor absorption of B12.1,2 The
age-related decrease in hydrochloric acid production can also affect B12
bioavailability.3,4
B12 Supplementation
To overcome obstacles
to vitamin B12 absorption, the Institute of Medicine recommended in 1998 that
vitamin B12-fortified foods (such as fortified ready-to-eat breakfast cereals)
and supplements containing vitamin B12 be used by older adults to help meet
their B12 requirement.5
More recent research
shows that supplementing with B12, even at moderate doses, can improve both B12
and folate status in older individuals.6
Vitamin B12, or
cobalamin, works synergistically with vitamin B6 and folate to convert
homocysteine into the amino acid methionine.7 This
helps to maintain healthy levels of homocysteine, an emerging marker of
cardiovascular, neurological and general health.8
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References
1.
Nutrients. 2016;8(12)
2.
Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2017;3:17040.
3.
Can J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019;2019:6757524.
4.
Blood. 2017;129(19):2603-2611.
5.
Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6,
Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline. Washington (DC): National
Academies Press (US) National Academy of Sciences.; 1998:
6.
Exp Gerontol. 2016;84:101-106.
7.
Adv Food Nutr Res. 2018;83:215-279.
8.
Int J Mol Sci. 2016;17(10)
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