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Health Benefits of Vitamin B12

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By adrienne2

B12 And Your Nervous System


B12 And You

 

Vitamin B12 have a numerous amount of benefits that can help individuals in different ways. The most common benefit of B12 is its ability to boost ones energy level, and speed up your metabolism. Patients who suffer with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can make excellent use of B12 by taking the therapeutic amount. The therapeutic amount is 1000 milligrams. B12 has helped individuals feel less tired, and worn down. The most effective form is B12dots or lozenges.(sublingual under the tongue). Vitamin B12 is also available in a vegetarian form, which is the type I use for myself.

How Nutrients Partner Together

Without vitamin B12 present in your body iron is incapable of functioning at its full potential . Nutrients in our body work together in a corporate effort to keep us healthy . . For example vitamin B12 helps the body to absorb carotene, and it plays a role in vitamin A being converted .

Look at it this way nutrients work as a team in an united effort for a common goal . Take for instance how healthy red blood cells are produced. It takes vitamin B12, vitamin B6 , vitamin B2 for production of healthy looking blood cells. Vitamin B1 is vital to maintain the health of the cell.

Under a microscope doctors can see whether the shape of a blood cell is normal or abnormal. Another example where nutrients work together its energy production in maintaining a healthy nervous system. The B vitamins work in totality to ensure proper functioning of the brain, and nervous system .

Team B Working Together

Here's a breakdown in no particular order:

  • energy booster ---------------------------------------B12
  • immune system booster ---------------------------Bcomplex
  • blood pressure regulator ------------------------------B3
  • helps lowers cholesterol------- ------------------------B3
  • helps promote weight loss--------------------------- -B6, B12
  • helps body process protein ---------------------------B1
  • adds moisture to skin---------------------------------B2
  • encourage glowing skin -------------------------------B5
  • strengthen nails protects from breakage --------------B5
  • soothing and natural calming agent--------------------B6
  • energy production ------------------------------------B1, B2
  • stress fighter------------------------------------------B5
  • helps prevent Altzheimers -----------------------------B1
  • helps alleviate Crohn's disease discomfort -------------B3, B6
  • Joint disease reliever-----------------------------------B3
  • Athletes performance booster & muscle builder--------B6,B2
  • Emotional well-being and staple of nervous system----B12, B1, B6, B3, B5

Health Benefits of Vitamin B12 in the News


Vitamin B12 - How To Know If You Are Lacking

  • Fatigue
  • Difficulty speaking (stammering)
  • Slow reflexes
  • Limbs being jerky
  • Problem with memory
  • Soreness in legs or arms
  • Anemia
  • Weakness
  • Servere deficiency can lead to brain damage

Natural Sources of B12

  • Beef Liver
  • yogurt
  • organic eggs
  • fish
  • clams
  • blackstrap molasses
  • milk products
  • sardines
  • oysters
  • lamb
  • tongue (if you have the stomach for it)
  • Nuts-rich in complete b complex
  • pecans
  • brazil
  • almond
  • walnut
  • filberts


Notes Of Interest

  1. There are other b vitamins that are uncommon due to that have not been approved as authentic b vitamins, they are: B15, B17, and Bt.
  2. The effectiveness of B Complex vitamins can be reduced and/or diminished by using sulfa medications, and sleeping aids, such as sleeping pills.

Absorption And You

B Complex and and it's group of the B vitamins work in a joint venture like effort. The B vitamin can relieve various ailments of different degrees. Most individuals prefer to take the complex which is all inclusive of all the B vitamins.

When targeting a particular health condition individuals may choose to boost up a single dose of a B. vitamin.

Absorption is the most important factor when taking nutrients , drinking alcohol is a commonality for all the nutrients , alcohol destroys the properties in nutrients . Other than alcohol there are other things to watch out for; . in taking above average amounts of sugar interfere with the absorption of B1 and B2.

In addition antacids, and caffeine can slow down absorption in B2. just as there are substances that interfere with nutrients there are things that can deplete the body from nutrients . For niacin starches and certain types of antibiotics can deplete B3 from the body .

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Big Sky profile image

Big Sky  says:
15 months ago

Nicely done. Have you looked into B17 or apricot kernels?

adrienne2 profile image

adrienne2  says:
15 months ago

apricot kernels?? never heard of this.

gkideas profile image

gkideas  says:
5 months ago

Nice series - I'd like to feature it in a blog listing I'm doing. I'll send you an email.

adrienne2 profile image

adrienne2  says:
5 months ago

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the series.

boungie  says:
4 months ago

Nice article!  I've become a big fan of vitamins too these days and learned that vitamins become even been when they're combined with other vitamins and minerals.  There really seems to be a synergetic effect and I've felt the health benefits. 

thanks for the info.  You're right, absorption is so important and it's crazy to realize that a lot of vitamins just aren't absorbed that well by the body. 

adrienne2 profile image

adrienne2  says:
4 months ago

Hi Boungie, yeah it is all in the absorption, when I first started taking supplements, and vitamins years ago I just took them thinking I did my job now vitamins do yours. HA! Then I learned about absorption, if they are not absorbed properly it's just as if you never took it.

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MikeNV  says:
2 months ago

Most American get enough because they eat meat. It's important to note there are 2 kinds of B12 supplements: The cheaper and less absorbable "Cyanocobalamin" which is interestingly enough bound to a cyanide molecule (The cyanide is added to the molecule by activated charcoal columns in purification). Crazy eh? Cyanide? And "Methylcobalamin". Most people have no idea there are different forms of B12

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