Description: Vitamin B-12 is a member
of the B-complex of vitamins, normally needed in only minute amounts.
Vitamin B12 is a general term used to define a group of essential
biological compounds known as “cobalamins.” The cobalamins are
structurally related to hemoglobin in the blood, and a deficiency of
vitamin B12 can produce an anemic state in the body. Conventional
doctors’ primary concern with maintaining adequate cobalamin status is
to protect against anemia. Over the last ten years, however, a number
of central and peripheral neurological disease states have been related
to a deficiency of a specific cobalamin.
