Boost Your Energy Vitamin B12 is known for its ability to increase energy levels
Moreover, AOD 9604 plays a role in improving metabolic health, potentially benefiting blood sugar control, insulin resistance, and overall weight management
Leptin inhibits the release of the orexigenic neuropeptides orexin and melanocortin-concentrating hormone (MCH) in the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) through the release of CART and melanocyte-stimulating hormone (-MSH)
Brain function: Brain fog, memory problems, cognitive impairment, insomnia, headaches (especially migraine), behavioural changes, learning problems, nominal aphasia Mood: Mood swings, irritability, depression, anxiety, hallucinations, delusions, psychosis Sensory: Peripheral paraesthesia (pins and needles), numbness, neuropathic pains, poor balance, reduced vibration sense or proprioception (joint position sense), tinnitus, ataxia, taste impairment, sometimes myelopathy Constitutional: Fatigue, anaemia (either macrocytic, or normocytic when also iron deficient or associated with thalassaemia minor), other cytopenia, abdominal complaints, malabsorption, failure to thrive, weight loss, diarrhoea, hyperpigmentation, glossitis, (aphthous) stomatitis, infertility, urinary tract infections Motor: Muscle weakness, altered reflexes (increased in degeneration of the spinal cord, reduced when peripheral neuropathy dominates), spasticity, seizures, cardiomyopathy Autonomic: Urinary and/or faecal incontinence, postural hypotension or dizziness, erectile dysfunction Diagnosing B 12 deficiency can be challenging because no single specific measurement exists to reliably diagnose or refute the presence of B 12 deficiency 11 12 26 27 (box 2)
