Starting low and escalating every four weeks gives your GI system time to adapt
What if I see no results after a month
Options include: Fortified foods : Nutritional yeast, plant-based milk alternatives, breakfast cereals, and meat substitutes fortified with B12 (check labels for content) Supplements : Daily supplements of 10 mcg or weekly doses of 2,000 mcg ensure adequate intake, as recommended by the British Dietetic Association The body absorbs approximately 50% of a 12 mcg dose but only about 1% of a 1,000 mcg dose through passive diffusion
Standard treatmentsrest, ice, anti-inflammatories, and physical therapyprovide symptom relief but do little to address the underlying hypovascularity
Besides the initiation of lipid peroxidation at the cell surface, homocysteine auto-oxidation with trace metal ions, generating reactive oxygen species such as superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl, and thiol free radicals (Munday, 1989
In a rat model of ISO-mediated myocardial infarction, CoQ10 preconditioning not only markedly expanded cardiac GSH levels and reduced the concentration of lipid peroxidation but also alleviated myocardial damage [177]