Title: Cobalt | ENCOGNITIVE.COM
Headings: Cobalt
Cobalt
Content: Medically, EPO can increase the red blood cell count by 25-35% so it is used to treat certain forms of anemia (i.e. in chronic kidney failure). It has also been used by athletes to improve athletic performance by increasing the oxygen-carrying ability of their blood, and to fight fatigue. The blood however thickens with excessive use of EPO, so users can suffer blood clots, strokes, heart attacks and related deaths. Some uninformed practitioners believe that there is no overdose possible with Vitamin B12, however 5-10% of the population presents with above-normal levels of Vit B12, so if injections are erroneously given, they can trigger a number of adverse symptoms that may include coronary artery spasms with chest pains, numbness or pain down their right arm, and/or TIA-like symptoms with tingling / numbness on the right side of the face. There is also a risk of hypokalemia, pulmonary edema, peripheral vascular thrombosis, optic nerve atrophy for someone with Leber's disease, and others. Risks from intranasal use of Vitamin B12 include glossitis, headache, sore throat, rhinitis, and feeling of "pins and needles." Individuals suffering from Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) are also vulnerable to experience a worsening, or an acute flare-up of MVP symptoms following a Vitamin B12 shot if not indicated. Even without having had any Vitamin B12 injections, individuals who run naturally high Vitamin B12 and cobalt levels (which may include patients with mitral valve prolapse), tend to frequently suffer from tachycardia, panic-anxiety attacks, or angina-like chest pains, that may be accompanied by numbness and tingling in the face or extremities. In contrast to cellular measurements, blood tests for cobalt or Vitamin B12 levels (including the Schilling test) are not only very unreliable, but at times alarmingly wrong, subjecting patients to improper therapy, or routinely misdiagnosing them as Psychiatric Cases, when in fact correcting their abnormal cobalt, Vitamin B12 and nickel status (or ratios) could resolve the problem. If Vitamin B12 deficiency is suspect and there are no resources to measure cellular Vit B12 levels, then blood levels of methylmalonic acid (MMA) can help with assessing Vit B12 requirements since methylmalonic acid inversely increases with declining Vitamin B12 activity.