Naominjw
06-20-2008, 05:08 PM
OK... so "Rumpled" and my daughter both seem to have the B12 (cobalamin) metabolic problem causing them to not be able to utilize B12 effectively. There's a great discussion on the Vitamin deficiency board about this... http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=223
What has me totally puzzled is ... how might this tie into the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, immune function, or whatever is going on? Can low level & intermittent waxing and waning of this functional deficiency of vitamin B12 have caused the body enough stress to have impaired immune, brain or gland function? Or could it directly have affected brain or glands?
Some medical mysteries will never appear on a TV show because they are just too complex.
But I keep thinking.... when a person has 20 things wrong, there is really one thing wrong and we just don't yet understand that one thing.... or.... maybe it really is a convergence of multiple genetic glitches and there really are maybe a few thing causing the constellation of problems. But I doubt it is really dozens of different things.
-"naomi"
What has me totally puzzled is ... how might this tie into the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, immune function, or whatever is going on? Can low level & intermittent waxing and waning of this functional deficiency of vitamin B12 have caused the body enough stress to have impaired immune, brain or gland function? Or could it directly have affected brain or glands?
Some medical mysteries will never appear on a TV show because they are just too complex.
But I keep thinking.... when a person has 20 things wrong, there is really one thing wrong and we just don't yet understand that one thing.... or.... maybe it really is a convergence of multiple genetic glitches and there really are maybe a few thing causing the constellation of problems. But I doubt it is really dozens of different things.
-"naomi"