David Sinclair· PhD
And there are a lot of studies that have shown that deficiencies in B12 accelerate a variety of diseases, heart disease is the major one, but also dementia in the brain.
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And there are a lot of studies that have shown that deficiencies in B12 accelerate a variety of diseases, heart disease is the major one, but also dementia in the brain.
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And there are a lot of studies that have shown that deficiencies in B12 accelerate a variety of diseases. heart disease is the major one, but also dementia in the in the brain.
Because the B vitamins are one are the ones that make sure you have the the methyls that are added and subtracted from the DNA that controls the DNA methylation clock. If you have low levels of B12, it's known that you have deficiency in the ability to methylate DNA and that will mess up your epiggenome and very likely accelerate the clock in a way that causes aging.