Vitamin B12 Is Good for Your Brain

Vitamin 12, the on-again off-again darling of vitamin advocates, is entering another on phase. The Washington Post reports that researchers at the University of Oxford did brain scans on 107 men and women ages 61 to 87 and measured the
amount of vitamin B 12 in their blood. When the researchers did brain
scans on the same subjects five years later, those who had higher
vitamin B12 levels were six times less likely to have experienced brain
shrinkage compared with those who had lower levels of the vitamin, the
researchers reported in Tuesday’s issue of the journal Neurology.
The paper reports that none of the people in the study had vitamin B12 deficiencies,
suggesting current recommendations for vitamin B12 intake may be too
low.
Read more in the Washington Post.