B12Awareness

Happy World B12 Awareness Day 2023!

World B12 Awareness Day is September 23, 2023. Please share.

B12 Awareness Week is September 18-24. Please share.

Happy B12 Awareness Month 2023! We are going to post the WEEK and WORLD posters today as well.
We encourage people to print and share these posters. PDF files have been added to our website under NEWS.

Happy worldwide B12 awareness day 2022! The model in these pictures is my 94-year-old Aunt Alice. She has been on B12 injections for 20 years.

World B12 Awareness Day is Friday, September 23. Please share!

B12 Awareness Week is September 19-25. Please share.

Happy B12 Awareness Month 2022! We are going to post the WEEK and WORLD posters today as well.
We encourage people to print and share these posters. PDF files have been added to our website under NEWS.

Happy B12 Awareness Week 2021!

Happy B12 Awareness Month 2021!

Check out what Elizabeth Carter is working & advocating for. She is employed at Blue Cross Blue Shield (Customer Service Team) and by speaking to members daily, opened her eyes to the overwhelming need for B12 deficiency education for healthcare providers & for proper B12 treatment to be practiced in the U.S. She herself suffered from late diagnosis/treatment.
Elizabeth’s petition is shining the spotlight on understanding & changing clinical practice!

Have you seen this petition yet?

JOIN US IN CELEBRATING SALLY’S EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION—Sally was very nice and she helped me out a lot! She got me a new bed, food and made sure I was fine. She asked if I needed extra blankets and just took very good care of me. Sally is a very good nurse. She was helpful and answered all my questions. I believe she went above and beyond anyone else here. She has been the best nurse I have ever had!

Dylan - Pateint

Check out a new post/article from today on B12Awareness.org regarding methyl-B12 and the COVID-19 virus. It is posted under the NEWS section.

Happy 2020 B12 Awareness Week everyone! My 92-year-old Aunt Alice is kicking off the week by attaching my poster to her wheeling walker. Her idea to be a walking billboard. She is also pictured with her 96-year-old husband, Carl. Both on hydroxocobalamin shots! A testimonial to longevity & good minds. She gives a thumbs up to B12 AWARENESS!

The 2020 B12 Awareness Posters are out! Happy B12 Awareness Week (September 21-27). World B12 Awareness Day (September 23).

Martie Whittekin, CCN from the Healthy By Nature Show, now in their 23rd year, was asked to do some book reviews for Whole Foods Magazine. Our book, "Could It Be B12?" was selected. Here is the link to her review:

https://wholefoodsmagazine.com/columns/good-health-reads/good-health-reads-martie-whittekin-ccn/

Good Health Reads: Martie Whittekin, CCN | WholeFoods Magazine With so many health-transforming books being released, WholeFoods wanted to know what the experts are reading. Here, radio host and author Martie Whittekin, CCN, shares her thoughts on three books she couldn’t put down.   Could it be B12?: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses by Sally M. Pacholok, RN, and...

Cheyenne Buckingham, Healthy Eating columnist for Eat This, Not That! magazine wrote an article on June 11 based on my website article "Undiagnosed Cobalamin Deficiency in the Face of COVID-19: an unrecognized comorbidity and silent killer."
https://www.eatthis.com/vitamin-b12-deficiency-coronavirus/

Vitamin B12 Deficiency May Cause Death from COVID-19 | Eat This Not That Vitamin D has received a lot of attention during coronavirus, but how about vitamin B12? A health professional explains the vitamin's impact on immunity.

Yet most clinicians still don’t rule out metabolic B12 deficiency, nor take it seriously.

PubMed Patients with Alzheimer's disease have higher plasma homocysteine levels than controls, but it is uncertain whether higher plasma homocysteine levels are involved in the early pathogenesis of the disease. Hippocampal, amygdalar and global brain atrophy on brain MRI have been proposed as early marker...

Check out my new article (post) on B12Awareness.org

https://b12awareness.org/2020/05/12/undiagnosed-cobalamin-deficiency-in-the-face-of-covid-19-an-unrecognized-comorbidity-and-silent-killer/

Undiagnosed Cobalamin Deficiency in the Face of COVID-19: An unrecognized comorbidity and silent killer. - B12 Awareness! Undiagnosed Cobalamin Deficiency in the Face of COVID-19: An unrecognized comorbidity and silent killer. People with undiagnosed vitamin B12 deficiency may be at a higher risk of dying from COVID-19. Not only does low B12 suppress one’s immune system making it harder to fend off infection and prod...

Because of the COVID-19 outbreak we are canceling the B12 lecture on 3/26/20, for physicians, other clinicians, managers & other McLaren Macomb Hospital staff. We will reschedule this summer or in September—during B12 Awareness Month!

I will be educating McLaren Macomb Hospital staff on the consequences of undiagnosed B12 deficiency on Thursday, March 26, 2020.
Organized by the Nurse Council Practice.
Everyone is welcome! Physicians are especially encouraged to attend.

Doctors rule out B12 deficiency BEFORE reaching for a Rx pad & prescribing antidepressants/anti-anxiety meds, psychostimulants or anti-psychotics.
SAVE A LIFE!

https://speciality.medicaldialogues.in/vitamin-b12-deficiency-linked-to-mental-illness-in-teenagers?infinitescroll=1

Vitamin B12 Deficiency is the dominant nutritional cause of high homocysteine in folic-acid-fortified populations. What was ignored in folic acid fortification: 1) The shared metabolism of B12/Folate, 2) the masking of B12 deficiency when people consume folic acid (synthetic folate made in a lab)
Does your carb-eating teen have mental illness?

https://speciality.medicaldialogues.in/vitamin-b12-deficiency-linked-to-mental-illness-in-teenagers?infinitescroll=1

Ditto, what film producer Elissa Leonard commented below.

Infantile Tremor Syndrome or a Neurocutaneous Infantile B12 Deficiency (NIB) Syndrome? To prospectively study the clinical and developmental profile; hematological profile and the B-12 status using multiple parameters in children with Infantile tremor syndrome (ITS). In this observational study (NCT02762682) (July 2015 through December 2016) children (and their mothers) with a cl...

Go to “News” on my website.
“Could high B12 levels possibly lead to increased all-cause mortality? Not in my opinion – understanding the facts.”
My response to the recent article in “JAMA Network Open,” January 15, 2020.

B12Awareness.org

Vitamin B12 Deficiency Awareness, Education, Symptoms, Misdiagnosis, Groups at Risk, Treatment Raising awareness to the dangers of vitamin B12 deficiency by reeducating the medical community and educating the public. Promoting early diagnosis and treatment preventing neurologic injury, disability, poor outcomes, and premature death.

Always thought hydroxocobalamin IV should be tried in resuscitations (ACLS protocol)—especially in older adults, in patients that are high risk for B12 deficiency, & especially during surgical resuscitations. Why not & what do you have to lose? Now someone is studying this!
Practitioners need to understand the biochemistry of cobalamin. Elderly are notoriously misdiagnosed for B12 deficiency, nitrous oxide during surgery causes B12 deficiency & is dangerous for those who are already low or deficient. Problem is doctors & medical institutions are not testing patients!
Septic patients are also higher risk for B12 deficiency. Low B12 causes high homocysteine, increasing ones risk for stroke, MI, PE, or DVT. We should not be using cyanocobalamin, but using hydroxocobalamin.
Wondering if this particular patient was unknowingly B12 deficient &/or if they were administering nitrous
oxide during this surgery?
Research is needed to ascertain if using hydroxocobalamin in emergent conditions helps treat severe hypotension/shock during cardiac arrest. (As well as calculate how many admitted patients had appropriate B12 screening before hypotensive or cardiac arrest event.) Does it only aid those who were originally low, or chronically untreated? Or did we cause the problem giving nitrous oxide to patients with low/poor or no B12 stores.
This is why testing & B12 Awareness is a must—especially in hospitalized patients!

Common vitamin saves patient's life in open heart surgery An anesthesiologist may have discovered a way to save a patient's life when the heart is about to stop and nothing else is working: Vitamin B12.

Do you, your doctor, health care institution, insurance co. or gov’t know about
B12 Acquired Brain Injury (BABI)?
5 yrs since well described in our book
“Could It Be B12? Pediatric Edition.”
15 years since our 1st book alerted doctors/society.

Educating the world about B12 Deficiency!
Pictures below are from Maui Hawaii, Michigan, Birmingham Alabama, United Kingdom, Washington, D.C., Miami, Wisconsin, New York City, the Netherlands & Sofia, Bulgaria.

Vitamin B12 deficiency misdiagnosed as dementia. How often is this happening? Bridge the gap—B12 Awareness education in 2020!

Woman Who Had Dementia For 5 Years Turned Out To Have A Common And Reversible Condition A new medical report details the case of a woman who started showing strange 'altered behavior' and was diagnosed with dementia for five years. However, he

B12 is a critical requirement for fetal, infant, & young children’s development & growth. Healthcare institutions are ignorant to this fact, as there is no universal screening or protocols. Warning: B12 deficiency does not only occur in vegans.
Surgeon General needs to address low B12—& create a “Call for Action.” We’ve only been asking for 15 years!

Latest Florida vegan baby death highlights need for sound medical advice An 18-month-old boy was found dead by Cape Coral Police in September. On Wednesday, his parents were indicted on charges of first-degree murder and five other...

Yet another reason to screen for B12 deficiency in women of childbearing age.

Study finds vitamin B12 deficiency in pregnancy may induce obesity A new study which was presented at the annual conference of Society for Endocrinology reports that vitamin B12 deficiency could disrupt the normal metabolism of fat and could indirectly contribute to weight gain and obesity in pregnancy. This emphasizes the need supplement this vitamin during pregna...