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If you often wake up tired, lose focus at work, or feel unusually low, your body might be missing something simple – Vitamin B12. This essential nutrient keeps your brain sharp, nerves healthy, and energy levels stable. Yet doctors say deficiency is far more common than most people realise, especially among vegetarians and older adults. Vitamin B12 deficiency and how …

If you’ve been feeling foggy, forgetful, or constantly moody and brushing it off as “just stress,” you might want to think again. A Hyderabad-based neurologist, Dr Sudhir Kumar, recently shared a real-life case that proves how what we often dismiss as burnout could actually be a serious health issue hiding in plain sight — a Vitamin B12 deficiency. And the …

Social media users posting pictures of themselves in hospital after “drinking too much matcha” have caused concerns about its potential health risks. One, a nurse from Maryland in the US, went viral on TikTok after her video claimed two matcha lattes a week left her with such low iron levels that she was hospitalised with exhaustion. But experts have stressed …

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What if your exhaustion wasn’t just because of family stress, work tasks and social obligations? While those things can certainly cause fatigue, it turns out iron deficiency ― which is present in roughly one-third of women who get a period ― can be the culprit. “Many people think [iron is] just another vitamin, like you just didn’t take your iron, …

Want to feel better, have more energy, stop snacking, and build mass? Protein should be your go-to. But what happens if you suffer from a protein deficiency and don’t hit enough of it? Losing muscle mass is the least of our problems: there’s much more to it than that. Ignore your protein macros and you could be risking your health …

What if your exhaustion wasn’t just because of family stress, work tasks and social obligations? While those things can certainly cause fatigue, it turns out iron deficiency ― which is present in roughly one-third of women who get a period ― can be the culprit. “Many people think [iron is] just another vitamin, like you just didn’t take your iron, …

Women with Alzheimer’s have far lower omega-3 levels than healthy women, while men show no such difference. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers have discovered that women with Alzheimer’s disease show a striking drop in omega-3 fatty acids compared to healthy women, a difference not found in men. This sex-specific lipid imbalance could help explain why women are more often diagnosed with the …

Study shows for the first time that lithium plays an essential role in normal brain function and can confer resistance to brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists discovered that lithium is depleted in the brain by binding to toxic amyloid plaques — revealing a new way Alzheimer’s may begin. A new class of lithium-based compounds avoids plaque binding and reverses …

Omega fatty acids could protect against Alzheimer’s disease in women, new research has found. Analysis of lipids – fat molecules that perform many essential functions in the body – in the blood found there was a noticeable loss of unsaturated fats, such as those that contain omega fatty acids, in the blood of women with Alzheimer’s disease compared to healthy …