But Kristin Zimmerman, associate professor in the department of pharmacotherapy and outcomes science at Virginia Commonwealth Universitys School of Pharmacy in Richmond, grew suspicious several years ago when her mom, who was in her late 60s and living on Floridas Gold Coast, quietly signed up for vitamin B12 injections from a new wellness clinic that had opened at the local mall
[18] [19] A number of factors are known to affect GH secretion, such as age, sex, diet, exercise, stress, and other hormones
For instance, one small study demonstrated that individuals with premature hair graying had lower vitamin B12, folate, and biotin levels than control subjects without premature gray hair (13)
The most commonly reported side effects are mild and transient: injection site redness or minor bruising, transient fatigue in the first one to two weeks, and occasionally mild headache following the first few injections, a pattern sometimes attributed to the acute shift in cellular energy metabolism as AMPK pathways are upregulated [3]