Many years ago a general practitioner sent me a patient who was suffering from recurrent infections, anemia, numbness and tingling of her extremities. Recurrent infections are a sign that the immune system isn’t doing its job well. It turned out that the anemia and other symptoms were caused by a lack of vitamin B12 and folic acid. (Folic acid is also a member of the B family of vitamins). She got plenty of BJ2 from her diet, but couldn’t properly absorb the B12 she ate. We managed to adjust her B12 levels and then her folic acid. This served to restart her immune system and elminate the puzzling symptoms and anemia.
Both B12 and folic acid are necessary if the immune-system cells made in the bone marrow are to mature into active disease-fighters. A deficiency of vitamin B12 and folic acid is associated with a decrease in the number of neutrophils, immune fighters that “eat” and destroy bacteria and other dangerous particles. Lack of BL2 results in decreased “cell eating” (phagocytosis), and a fall in the absolute number of T- and B-cells. Folic-acid deficiency leads to a decrease in T-cells, as well as shrinkage of the thymolymphatico organs, where so much of your immune system is “based.”
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