Just read an interesting article on Vitamin B12. Seems it may help prevent brain shrinkage! They don’t seem to mention that the RDA seems to be a little behind in their recommendations. According to this research, we “may” be able to keep our brain size by eating a couple of chews everyday!

Dr. David Friedman, the developer of the wonderful, one of a kind Chewable supplement Chews4Health, wrote the following in response to the amount of Vitamin B12 in Chews4health.

“In the United States, the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) was  established by the government to
reflect  the bare “minimal amount needed” to sustain life and fight disease. The  RDA for Vitamin C is 60 mg, which is the amount needed to ensure humans would not develop the disease Scurvy; however, most Vitamin C supplements on the market are sold in  1,000 mg or higher.   Without going into a long lecture on RDAs, I will tell you this…….MAN created the RDA numbers and every 3-5  years those numbers are  constantly being revised and they change drastically so how can they be an accurate  gage on how to supplement your diet?     In fact, just a year ago it was said that men should supplement their diets with 1,000 mg of Calcium per day.   Now, current  research shows that calcium supplementation CAUSES PROSTATE CANCER and it was recently  announced that NO calcium is recommended per day for men.  That means DON’T TAKE CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS AT ALL IF YOU ARE A MAN!  Wow, what a drastic change from what the RDA  has been telling us for the past 25 years!!

Vitamin B12 is water soluble and there is NO worry about having “too much” or for it to cause any  dangerous side effects to the body.    That means the B12 our body does not use, we excrete from our kidneys in our urine.  Yes, you are right, the RDA for B12 is just  2.4 mcg,  the bare minimum needed to sustain human life; however,
science shows that the cells of the body require  a hundred times  more  B12 than the RDA (especially for those that don’t eat meat.)  If you could find a B12 supplement on the market with only the RDA (I doubt one exists,)  you would
be taking the bare minimum needed to keep you alive,  but you would not see any noticeable results like focus, energy, endurance or increased vitality. For that, you need  a supplement that contains 200 mcgs,  like  Chews4health.

I do have one piece of  advice pertaining to your children…..  You may want to limit their intake of Chews4Health to the mornings and keep them away from it at night oryou will want us to  rename the product:
Zoooooooooom-4-Heatlh!

Sincerely,

Dr. David
Friedman

Thanks Dr. Friedman for your explanation.

Michael

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