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Originally Posted by Rose
People with pernicious anemia are losing or have lost the ability to produce intrinsic factor. It's not a matter of handling it. It is going, going, gone.
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Karen,
I was clarifying because of something you wrote.
Karen wrote:
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Originally Posted by ConsiderThis
One thing that is sometimes overlooked, is that things like antacids can reduce stomach acid so much that B12 and magnesium can no longer be obtained from food containing them.
Thus, people who use a lot of antacids could stop using so many and begin to absorb nutrients and minerals better.
People with pernicious anemia cannot control the intrinsic factor in a similar way.
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I wanted to make clear that people who have pernicious anemia don't have intrinsic factor to "control."
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That's what I said, isn't it? In pernicious anemia people have no control, there's no intrinsic factor. I don't see where you got the word, "handling" -- Are you sure you understood what I wrote?