{"id":63880,"date":"2026-03-07T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63880"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:18:54","slug":"vitamin-b12-deficiency-is-probably-the-commonest-cause-of-dementia-and-probably-the-easiest-to-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63880","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin B12 deficiency is probably the commonest cause of dementia and probably the easiest to cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vitamin B12 Deficiency is probably the commonest cause of dementia and probably the easiest to cure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is reliably estimated that between 3% and 5% of the population are deficient in vitamin B12. Some experts put the figure as high as 10% and it is suggested that at least a fifth of all those over the age of 60 have low vitamin B12. The certainty is that vitamin B12 deficiency is an epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it is an established fact that individuals who are deficient in vitamin B12 are likely to suffer from a wide range of symptoms with dementia being one of the most significant of those symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>So, around the world, how many of the many millions said to be suffering from Alzheimer\u2019s disease are in reality simply vitamin B12 deficient and could be cured with a short course of injections or a few vitamin tablets dissolved under the tongue?<\/p>\n<p>We have to be talking about several hundred thousand patients in the UK alone. I\u2019d suspect that the real figure is around 500,000.<\/p>\n<p>If I am right that means that Alzheimer\u2019s disease is nowhere near as common as it is said to be and that half a million patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease could have been cured with a simple two week course of injections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vernoncoleman.com\">http:\/\/www.vernoncoleman.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin B12 Deficiency is probably the commonest cause of dementia and probably the easiest to cure It is reliably estimated that between 3% and 5% of the population are deficient in vitamin B12. Some experts put the figure as high as 10% and it is suggested that at least a fifth of all those over &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vitamin B12 deficiency is probably the commonest cause of dementia and probably the easiest to cure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63881,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880\/revisions\/63881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}