Do you take Metformin?
Metformin is the first line medication for most type 2 diabetics and helps lower blood glucose (sugar) levels. Unfortunately, high blood glucose levels cause lots of damage and complications from heart disease to nerve damage.
As good as metformin is, it does cause one important nutritional problem. Metformin has been found to reduce the absorption of Vitamin B12 leading to low levels and deficiency.
B12 is a crucial B vitamin, and low levels can cause a range of problems like tiredness, headaches, heart palpitations, diarrhoea, sore tongue, memory problems, visual disturbances, numbness, muscle weakness, depression, anxiety, balance problems and incontinence.
We strongly advise that people prescribed metformin should be taking a high quality B12 supplement like our very own Triple B12 or multivitamin to prevent these symptoms and complications from deficiency.
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