Accordingly, it has issued new advice to check vitamin B12 serum levels in patients being treated with metformin who have symptoms suggestive of vitamin B12 deficiency.[] The proposed mechanisms to explain metformin-induced vitamin B12 deficiency among patients with T2DM include alterations in small bowel motility, which stimulates bacterial overgrowth and consequential vitamin B12 deficiency, competitive inhibition or inactivation of vitamin B12 absorption, alterations in IF levels, and interaction with the cubulin endocytic receptor
By the way combining finasteride with minoxidil may yield better results than minoxidil alone
Beyond stem cell activity, another proposed mechanism involves NAD+ replenishment
People and mice differ in metabolism, body size, route exposure, and disease biology, so animal results cannot predict a person's outcome
How many patients right now are being managed for a disease they do not have, because a simple, inexpensive test was never run