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Originally Posted by Mcharris
I am not going to dash out and buy horsey B12.... but it is sure worth investigating. Think of the amount of money that top trainers and owners spend on their horses.... the B12 is not going to be of a cheap quality surely????
I found the following on the www which maybe of some benefit to anoyone trying to understand about B12.... tiz a government paper (errr......... ) well tiz a place to start from       
http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitaminb12.asp
Table of Contents
What is vitamin B12?
What foods provide vitamin B12?
What is the recommended dietary intake for vitamin B12?
When is a deficiency of vitamin B12 likely to occur?
Do pregnant and/or lactating women need extra Vitamin B12?
Who else may need a vitamin B12 supplement to prevent a deficiency?
Drug : Nutrient Interactions
Caution: Folic Acid and vitamin B12 deficiency
What is the relationship between vitamin B12 homocysteine, and cardiovascular disease?
Do healthy young adults need a vitamin B12 supplement?
What is the health risk of too much vitamin B12?
Selecting a healthful diet
References
Reviewers
Later  Clare in Tassie
PS..... any idea if taking B12 (while your body is deficient) can put you Blood pressure up?
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Well you sure started me thinking last night with your horsey B12. lol
I was thiniking about how when I lived in England decades ago it was okay for veterinarians to work on humans, but illegal for medical doctors to work on animals. The reasoning was that the science used by a veterinarian was applicable across the board, but that the beliefs incorporated into the practices of a medical doctor were not necessarily beneficially in keeping with science. Something like that.
And then I started thinking about the safety of B12 that's manufactured for horses. Which led me to think about the news stories about pharmaceuticals that were/are made to look like the real thing by counterfeiters, and which have been sold at drug stores that people here in the US would normally trust.
I started thinking about our judicial in the US which feels free to condemn a man or woman to death, but if you show that a lawyer has lied causing great damage, they don't feel it's important enough to do anything to deter further wrong actions on the part of the lawyer.
So who can you trust?
And I thought exactly the same thing about the horses which are very valuable. I mean, clearly some horses are much more valuable than many people, and I do mean a number of poor people as opposed to one single valuable race horse. (This is not how I feel, it is what I have observed. It makes me sad.)
So, I'm wondering where to get horsey B12.
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The gov. thing on B12 is good. I think I've looked at it before. One thing that keeps me from recommending it is the very low amounts of B12 that it recommends. Those amounts are way too low for anyone to use to obtain significant relief from nerve damage.
It does talk about folic acid and B12 and I wanted to do that too, when I was writing to you last night, but I was so tired it was painful. (I have to have my Revised Brief complete and filed on Friday, so I hope after that I can rest normally again.)
Anyway, I was too tired to think clearly about my experience with folic acid and B12.. I remember that when I started taking the hydrochloric acid, I also ordered NSI B12 capsules that I swallowed along with a hydrochloric acid capsule. I took my other B vitamins at the same time, I seem to remember.
What happened was that several symptoms I'd had of low B12 remained as reduced as if I were having B12 shots. So I was all happy. But then ... and the trouble is I forget and I think this was during the time I didn't have power, so I don't have an actual record. Or maybe I do because I wrote some hand notes, only I haven't transcribed them into my computer yet.
In any case, some serious B12 symptom suddenly got a lot worse. But which one, I can't remember, I just remember that I knew that I wasn't getting the whole of the help I got from B12 injections.
I'm afraid this isn't very clear because I don't have notes to identify exactly what I did and exactly what the results were.
Which emphasizes that keeping notes is essential if you want to know later what helped in what ways.
Thanks for an interesting set of posts.