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About this Book
A silent crippler stalks millions of North Americans—and
each of us may be one of them.
This crippler is a master of masquerade, striking different
people in different ways. It afflicts one person with tremors, makes
another depressed or psychotic, and causes agonizing leg and arm pains or
paralysis in still another. It can mimic Alzheimer’s disease, multiple
sclerosis, early Parkinson’s disease, diabetic neuropathy, or chronic
fatigue syndrome. It can make men or women infertile or cause developmental
disabilities in their children. Other times it lurks silently, stealthily
increasing its victim’s risk of deadly diseases ranging from stroke and
heart attacks to cancer.
This medical disorder stems from a vitamin deficiency, but your standard
multivitamin pill won’t prevent it in many cases, and even high-dose oral
formulas of this vitamin may not help. It’s considered an “old people’s
disease” by doctors, but it can strike any person at any age, and it
sometimes hits children the hardest.
The disorder is vitamin B12 deficiency. If you
develop this
deficiency it’s easy to spot, easy to treat, and easy to cure—but only if
your doctor diagnoses you before it’s too late. Unfortunately, that
frequently doesn’t happen.
This isn’t a new or fad disease. In fact,
you’ll find it listed in
the textbooks of any first-year medical student. It’s not a rare disease,
either: If you’re over forty, you’re at an elevated risk for dangerous B12
deficiency, and if you’re over sixty, you have up to a 40 percent chance of
having dangerously low B12 levels.
Sally M. Pacholok, R.N. and her physician husband, Jeffrey J. Stuart, cite
the extensive research done by numerous medical centers and universities
that proves B12 deficiency plays a defining role in many seemingly hopeless
problems. But, even in the face of these studies, this disorder has somehow
been overlooked by the general medical field and is often misdiagnosed—with
disastrous consequences. The authors include numerous case histories and
offer their readers strategies on how to learn if they or a loved one may
be suffering from a B12 deficiency. The first book to explore this deadly
problem!
Table of Contents
An Invisible Epidemic
• Is It Aging—or Is It B12 Deficiency?
• Deadly Mimic: When B12 Deficiency Masquerades
as Multiple Sclerosis or Other
• Neurological Disorders
• Am I Losing My Mind? When B12 Deficiency
Causes Mental Illness
• Stroke, Heart Disease, and Other Vascular Problems:
• The B12 -Homocysteine Connection
• Lost Children: When B12 Deficiency Causes
Developmental Disabilities or Learning Problems
• Vitamin B12 and Cancer, Impaired Immune Function,
and Autoimmune Disease
• Under the Knife: Why Low B12 Levels Make Surgery Dangerous
• Can’t Conceive? How B12 Deficiency Contributes to
Male and Female Infertility
• Protecting Yourself: Are You at Risk for Vitamin B12 Deficiency?
• Information for Physicians
• Speculation: The Possible Role of Vitamin B12 in Autism
• A Call for a United Effort
About the Authors
 In Could It Be B12?,
RN Sally M. Pacholok and her physician husband, Jeffrey J. Stuart, cite the
extensive research done by numerous medical centers and universities that
proves B12 deficiency plays a defining role in many seemingly hopeless
problems. But, Pacholok and Stuart contend that, even in the face
of these studies, this disorder has somehow been overlooked by the general
medical field and is often misdiagnosed.
The authors include numerous case histories and
offer their readers strategies on how to learn if they or a loved one may
be suffering from a B12 deficiency.
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