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Some helpful guidance from the Mayo clinic about calcium supplementation and safety:-http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/calcium-supplements/art-20047097
A very interesting website from a well respected source. Thank you for sharing this. It is very informative and concise.Some helpful guidance from the Mayo clinic about calcium supplementation and safety:-http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/calcium-supplements/art-20047097
A couple of months ago I began taking a B12 supplement!
Conclusions Long term treatment with metformin increases the risk of vitamin B-12 deficiency, which results in raised homocysteine concentrations. Vitamin B-12 deficiency is preventable; therefore, our findings suggest that regular measurement of vitamin B-12 concentrations during long term metformin treatment should be strongly considered.
http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2181
B12 deficiency
http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/vitamin-b12/evidence/hrb-20060243
Yeast Extract Spreads (Marmite)Could eating Marmite be the answer to vitamin B-12 deficiency?!
marmite is better than marmalade when on toast. I have 1 slice most days, and my bgl is within my target range.what about if you have marmite on toast? Will that sort it out and How much and how often I guess?
Aside from the toast element being carbs etc.
I had low B12, and was told in no uncertain terms to take "Methyl Cobalamin orally rather than Cyanocobalamin shots! The Methyl really works well for me im happy to say!Hello Gloucester girl, im kathy, (mymuppy), I was reading your postings just now...I have written recently concerning Metformin, I take 500 per day, I said, that I was having severe side effects, so stopped taking my metformin, it's a bit more involved with other meds, but I continue regarding Metformin....I knew that this medication had helped people in the past, not necessarily diabetic, for weight control and another lady had said, it's good for the heart, I have a pacemaker, a year next month, and after seeing the G.P., he said, do take the Metformin, that's all really. So I now take 1 x 500 every other day! The severe side effects have eased to more tolerable level...but I'm not happy really. I was surprised to see that it was prescribed to you for weight loss! I took it upon myself to take, B12, Vit, D, B6, and I do try but my gastritis will not allow to eat food with kerotin in it as it's good for, skin, hair, nails...I had gone to grey skin, loss of hair, and my finger nails peeling, the GP never offered me B12 injection? It's taken 2 years to not look so grey, my hair has stopped falling out, fingers x, only a couple of finger nails are peeling, my 7 day average testing is 7.4., I really am considering stopping again? Sorry I've gone on to long....thank you kathy
Sounds about right for a High Carb Low Fat (HCLF) diet. Personally I follow LCHF instead. Mayo is obviously not latched onto the LC bandwagon yet, along with many other institutions we come across. Mayo are more reknowned for their cancer research and are not diabetes specialists.Ya gotta be careful of the Mayo clinic on Diabetes advice. I was just looking at their high carb low fat suggestions in their Diabetes recipes today like some kind of apple dish with brown sugar in the dip expecting someone to stop at half an apple and still high carb, a personal pizza, several pasta dishes and the beat goes on. Some of their materials are great but even in the article above, food sources of calcium are not as encouraged as they should be. like fish where you eat the bones.
Apparently the RDA for B12 is 2.4 mcg per day for adults, so 1000 mcg tablet is a bit excesssive. Caveat Emptor.180 tablets, 1000 ug, £9.95 + £1.00 delivery.
http://www.naturesbest.co.uk/vitamin-b12-1000-methylcobalamin-p621/?src=gonato
No dextrose in the ingredients!