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Though the medical community has been aware of the condition for over 50 years, its symptoms can be so similar to a variety of ailments, including alzheimers disease, depression and. When vitamin b12 is scarce, sperm count declines and infertility may result. Is memory loss from vitamin b12 deficiency reversible. You could get the soft data of i have lived a thousand years. Detection of functional vitamin b12 and folate deficiencies, while. Its metabolism by the body depends on a finely tuned series of events.
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