Understanding the evidence, safety considerations, and lack of proven synergistic benefit is essential for informed clinical decision-making when patients consider combining these treatments
While there is little evidence to suggest Vitamin B12s role in weight loss, people claim that regular supplementation with B12, specifically regular intramuscular injection methods of consumption, is associated with higher levels of energy, mood, and weight loss
Medications: acid-reflux drugs (PPIs) and some diabetes medications (such as metformin) can interfere with B12 absorption
While its main function is to carry out cellular respiration, a process that converts nutrients from food into ATP, there are many other functions mitochondria perform, including metabolic signaling, calcium regulation, autophagy (cellular clean-up) and apoptosis (cell death), neurogenesis (growth of new nerve tissue) and neuronal plasticity (aka neuroplasticity- our brains ability to grow and adapt), as well as the synthesis of other molecules (especially those in the immune system)