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Talk about taking one for the team. Thank you, Dr. Gunter. The keyword list contains some of my absolute most and least favorite things, a variety of topics one often doesn’t see on HN:

> Keywords: jade, crystals, vagina, coffee, enema, supplements, toxins, medical conspiracy theories, Epstein Barr Virus, mediums, vitamin B12 injections

Spoiler alert:

> The goop store is 90% quackatorium

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I'm curious about the pseudoscience behind vitamin B12 injections? Correct me if I am wrong but if a person is very B12-deficient, injections are a way to relatively quick fix that whereas tablets wouldn't do much at that point. Supplements is another. If you don't eat certain foods, you might get deficiencies. The way to get that checked is via conventional science though.

My uneducated guess would be that someone who is so B12-deficient to require an injection (rather than just taking a daily pill) is unlikely to be able attend a Goop wellness event on account of the neurological damage :)

That's something a doctor will tell you. Not something a website should suggest upon you.

Fair enough.

She stated in the post

> At In Goop Health there are free vitamin B12 shots, which are unnecessary unless you have a vitamin B12 deficiency. Hopefully, the new goop scientists can calculate the odds that all the women attending a goop event are vitamin B12 deficient? Perhaps they will also point out that oral works quite well, so the injection is for show?

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