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What's the link between B12 deficiency and MS?
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I have been told that often MS is mis-diagnosed and the neurological symptoms can be attributed to a severe B12 deficiency. I also heard that often people can get blood tests for B12 levels but the threshold is too low in current testing? -
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Dr Simon Easterbrook-Smith
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As far as I can see from a PubMed search (PubMed is the standard literature database for peer-reviewed papers written by biomedical scientists and health professionals) there is no convincing evidence for a link between multiple sclerosis and Vitamin B12 deficiency.
I searched for "multiple sclerosis" AND "vitamin b12".
You might like to check out these two free-access papers:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354399/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3833582/
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