A Vitamin B12 Story: Extraordinary Healing—and Institutional Resistance This is a good-news/bad-news story. The Good News As reported by investigative journalist Lynne McTaggart in The Optimist, a physician in England—originally from India—has spent more than forty years quietly achieving what most consider impossible. Joseph Chandy became widely known for reversing severe depression in hundreds of patients—and, remarkably, for producing dramatic improvements in patients with multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue syndrome. In a 2006 BBC segment, former MS patients described standing up from wheelchairs after treatment. His “miraculous” therapy? Vitamin B12 injections. Why This Worked Dr. Chandy recognized something foundational early in his career:one of the two true causes of disease is nutrient deficiency. As Raymond Francis wrote as far back as 2003: Proper nutrition is the single most important factor in preventing and reversing depression. F…

Vitamin B12 and folate (aka vitamin B9) work together in a very productive partnership. Unfortunately, government statistics show that 30% of the US population is deficient in vitamin B12 and 75% in folate. This is using the Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA) as a reference, which many experts believe are far too low. And since they often work together, a deficiency in one means the other won’t work as it should. So it wouldn’t be too surprising to find you’re deficient in one or both, especially if you’re over the age of 50 when both B12 and folate levels start to decline. Because these two B vitamins participate in so many different biochemical processes, deficiencies can produce a wide range of symptoms: Do you have low energy? Feel weak, or get dizzy spells? Do you find you’re getting more irritable or feeling a bit low? Is your memory getting worse? Is it harder to learn new things; easier to get distracted and confused?  Do you have balance, vision or hearing proble…