Unfortunately, data show vitamin B12 deficiency is surprisingly common, affecting as many as 15% of people, either because theyre not consuming enough of the vitamin or their body is having trouble absorbing it and using it
This caught the attention of the insurance companies which have mostly stopped covering the cost of B12 injections, sometimes even in the case of unambiguous deficiency that is refractory to oral supplements
They do not have any major side effects
Gianello (PubMed) Research Focus : Mechanistic Preclinical Research Title : Development of a Human Growth Hormone Peptide Analogue AOD9604 into an Anti-Obesity Drug (Book chapter, Peptides: The Wave of the Future, APSY vol 7, 2001) Authors : Woei-Jia Jiang, Robert Gianello, Mark Heffernan, Esra Ogru, Roksan Libinaki, Frank Ng (SpringerLink) Research Focus : Preclinical Lipid Metabolism Studies (Mice) Title : The effects of human GH and its lipolytic fragment (AOD9604) on lipid metabolism following chronic treatment in obese mice and -AR knockout mice (Endocrinology, Dec 2001) Authors : M