Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome. It is July twenty ninth.
Speaker 2: July is just about had it. School starting soon, and
Speaker 2: let's move into this time of the year thinking more
Speaker 2: about health. And I'm getting ready for a presentation and
Speaker 2: we do in October on longevity and aging. And now
Speaker 2: a new study just came out this morning about a
Speaker 2: specific supplement that can mimic the signs of aging when
Speaker 2: it goes low.
Speaker 1: Wonder what that is.
Speaker 2: We'll take a look at that and discuss the signs
Speaker 2: of aging.
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Speaker 2: Book of Hebrews, Chapter six.
Speaker 1: Come to me continually.
Speaker 2: I'm meant to be the center of your consciousness, the
Speaker 2: anchor of your soul.
Speaker 1: Your mind will wander from me. The question is how
Speaker 1: far will you allow it to wander?
Speaker 2: An anchor on a short rope lets a boat drift
Speaker 2: only slightly before the taut line tugs the boat back
Speaker 2: towards the center. Similarly, as you drift away from me,
Speaker 2: my spirit within you gives a tug, prompting you to
Speaker 2: return to me. As you become increasingly attuned to my presence,
Speaker 2: the length of rope on your soul's anchor is shortened.
Speaker 2: You wonder only a short distance before feeling the inner
Speaker 2: tug telling you to return to the true center in me.
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Speaker 2: Up to one in five older adults may be suffering
Speaker 2: from poor clinical cellular.
Speaker 1: Energy production due to a lack of vitamin B twelve.
Speaker 2: If you're over sixty feeling tired all the time, I
Speaker 2: have tingling in your hands and feet and a cold
Speaker 2: you just can't shake. It's easy to chalk it up
Speaker 2: to be getting older, but there's a good chance to
Speaker 2: real culprit is a vitamin you may not be absorbing.
Speaker 2: Vitamin B twelve deficiency syndromes can mimic signs of normal
Speaker 2: aging and as a result, be easy to miss. New
Speaker 2: preclinical research is now exploring the possible reason why B
Speaker 2: twelve's role in keeping your mitochondria, the energy factory inside
Speaker 2: your cells, running properly. Mitochondria play a major role in
Speaker 2: the body, as the tiny power plants to produce energy
Speaker 2: inside cells. A decline in the mitochondrial function is a
Speaker 2: hallmark of aging, and B twelve plays a direct role
Speaker 2: in both energy production and mitochondrial health. Two recent pre
Speaker 2: clinical studies help explain the connection. In the first study,
Speaker 2: published in the Journal of Nutrition, researchers reduce B twelve
Speaker 2: availability in mice and examined skeletal muscle, which has high
Speaker 2: energy demands. The mitochondria worked less efficiently, produced less energy
Speaker 2: than B twelve is low, and showed sign of damage
Speaker 2: to their DNA. Martha Field, co author of both studies
Speaker 2: associate professor at Cornell's University with a doctoral degree in biochemistry,
Speaker 2: said earlier mouse research had already linked B twelve deficiencies
Speaker 2: to mitochondrial DNA damage and reduced energy production. That letter
Speaker 2: teemed to look more closely at tissues that rely heavily
Speaker 2: on the mitochondria, such as muscle, heart, and brain. The
Speaker 2: muscle connection is especially important for older adults since B
Speaker 2: twelve deficiency becomes more common with aid, partially due to
Speaker 2: reduced absorption at the same time that aging adults faced
Speaker 2: elevated risk of sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass and strength.
Speaker 1: It erodes independence and quality of life. We sort of as.
Speaker 2: A scientific term, shown that B twelve deficiency or insufficiency
Speaker 2: is kind of a second hit on the same time,
Speaker 2: a tissue at the.
Speaker 1: Same time which is vulnerable.
Speaker 2: The second study, published in the Geoscience magazine, explored whether
Speaker 2: B twelve supplementation ned reverse the damage. Study author Anna
Speaker 2: Mercer and associate professor in cell developmental integrated biology, supplemented
Speaker 2: older mice of B twelve to see if it could
Speaker 2: restore mitochondrial functioning. We've known the B twelve absorption declines
Speaker 2: with age and mitochondria disfunctioned to homework of aging.
Speaker 1: Our thought is, if there's a.
Speaker 2: Link between B twelve availability in mitochondria and older adults,
Speaker 2: supplementation might reverse the decline.
Speaker 1: We were surprised about how robust a result we observed.
Speaker 4: The exciting finding is that mice in mice improving B
Speaker 4: twelve status was associated with better mitochondrial functioning and muscle
Speaker 4: This suggests that B twelve can play a role in
Speaker 4: not only preventing deficiency disease, but also supporting cellular energy
Speaker 4: systems that help maintain healthy agent.
Speaker 2: Both researchers noted that these studies are in animals and
Speaker 2: not proof of an.
Speaker 1: Effect on humans.
Speaker 2: Of course, B twelve are Cobolamine is made by the
Speaker 2: microorganisms of travel at the food chain to us via
Speaker 2: the animals that eat it, meaning the best natural sources
Speaker 2: are meat, eggs, and dairy. Humans do not produce it
Speaker 2: and must get it from food four to five products
Speaker 2: or supplements. B twelve is stored by the liver, which
Speaker 2: can hold a year's worth of our needed supply. This
Speaker 2: is why a deficiency can develop slowly and go unnoticed
Speaker 2: for a long time. That's a critical factor that most
Speaker 2: people don't know. Getting enough is in just about how
Speaker 2: much BE twelves in your back, but also about whether
Speaker 2: you can break it down and absorb it. Our ability
Speaker 2: to absorb nutrients effectively tends to decrease with age, as
Speaker 2: does the amount of stomach acid needed to release BE
Speaker 2: twelve in food so it can be absorbed and used.
Speaker 2: Absorption can also be affected by medications, especially met Foreman
Speaker 2: for type two diabetes. Ppi's proton pump prohibitors used to
Speaker 2: reduce stomach acid also lower B twelve. Both can interfere
Speaker 2: with absorption, and both are widely used among older adults.
Speaker 2: The last one hundred years have seen a move from
Speaker 2: the identification of the nutrient as an essential vitamin that
Speaker 2: prevents a fatal disease to the realization that older people
Speaker 2: at more risk of becoming B twelve efficient. So what
Speaker 2: symptoms should we watch for? B twelve is vital for
Speaker 2: making myelin to protective covering around nerves. We don't get
Speaker 2: enough B twelve milins compromised and the nerve fibers can
Speaker 2: become exposed, leading to numbless and tingling in the hands
Speaker 2: and feet. If it progresses, it can also leave a
Speaker 2: degeneration of the spinal cord, resulting loss of balance or coordination.
Speaker 2: Difficulty walking, and condition called subacute combined degeneration the big
Speaker 2: entiedness are probably the most common symptoms. Brain fog cognitive
Speaker 2: changes are.
Speaker 1: Also quite common.
Speaker 2: Other possible symptoms include tiredness or exhaustion, shortness of breath,
Speaker 2: ballance problems, poor memory, vision problems, and weight loss. B
Speaker 2: twelve status can be checked with a standard blood lab.
Speaker 2: Common tests for B twelve deficiencies aren't very accurate. You
Speaker 2: can send the same blood sample to five different labs
Speaker 2: get five different results. More precise testing, which means looking
Speaker 2: for byproducts that build up in the blood as a
Speaker 2: result of deficiency, exist but remain expensive. Individual responses to
Speaker 2: low B twelve can vary widely. It's likely two people
Speaker 2: at the same level B twelve can result in one
Speaker 2: of them being insufficient the other will suffer from the deficiency.
Speaker 2: If you having symptoms, you assume.
Speaker 1: You're a part of getting older. You may want to
Speaker 1: consider testing for B twelve. There, you got it.
Speaker 2: Get your B twelve checked and go to Nutrition Frontiers
Speaker 2: and check out B twelve in a very easy to
Speaker 2: use once.
Speaker 1: A day supplement. All right, God bless you folks. That's
Speaker 1: what we got for you today. See you back your sin.