Association Between Digestive Power and Serum Vitamin B12 Levels in Young Adult Females: An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study
Pallavi Turkar, Kiran Tawalare, Aparna Karnad, Ajeet Saoji, Vijay Kirkan, Sakshi Dawale, Chinmayee Kadwe, Nikhil Kajale · 2026
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Ayurvedic medicine holds that digestive power, called Agni, governs how the body takes in food, and vitamin B12 depends on that uptake. Pallavi Turkar and seven co-authors tested the link in 2026 in ninety-four young women, half of them low in the vitamin and half not. Blood assays measured the vitamin, and a standard tool sorted each woman's digestion into one of four types.
Women with normal vitamin levels mostly showed balanced digestion. The other types, irregular, overstrong, and weak digestion, clustered among the deficient group, and the split was far beyond chance. The authors read this as a real tie between digestive strength and vitamin uptake. They call for longer studies that follow women over time.
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| CREATOR | Pallavi Turkar, Kiran Tawalare, Aparna Karnad, Ajeet Saoji, Vijay Kirkan, Sakshi Dawale, Chinmayee Kadwe, Nikhil Kajale |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |