Vitamin B12

“So are you taking B12? Yeah. So I go every six to eight weeks. I take a shot. I go to my naturopath. Okay. Your vitamin D levels got checked? Yes. They were low, but they're good now. Okay. So you're taking vitamin D. Okay. Yeah. So that's, I just wanted to make sure we do that.”

“So you got to go less ingredients and it doesn't work properly. Or reduce the amount of stuff in there. So like reduce your amount of vitamin C or deduce your B12. And again, you're not getting a clinical dose needed to do what you're saying you do. Those are the only three ways you can do it. And that I think a lot of supplement companies are screwing up.”

“So, but they do a really good job in marketing and advertising. But when you look at the numbers, there's not enough B12 to make a difference. So you're just buying nothing. I mean, you might as well just, you know, eat something. That's one of our frustrations.”

“You can see skin, eyes, immediately. Yeah. Okay, so L-glutamine. L-glutamine, magnesium, B12. Magnesium, B12. Methylated B12. Ah, you're singing my tune, my brother. Yes, methylated B12. Bring it. Yes, I love the methylated vitamins.”

“the human body works is we take certain nutrients, like vitamin B12. We take that vitamin and it gives its life to the conversion of one nutrient into another.”

“If somebody goes and gets a blood panel, most often they get zero nutrients checked. Oh, yeah, yeah. And if they do, B12, sodium,. It's iron, B12, and sodium. I mean, that's maybe what they're getting tested. Yeah. Yeah. What about magnesium? Right. What about zinc?”

“I talk about this all the time, I mean, so much. So much B12 deficiency shows high B12 in the blood. Yes. And it's a really hard concept to wrap your arms around, but we're pulling, you know, nutrient concentrations from the serum of the blood, not from inside the cell.”

“And when the cell is not metabolizing it, using that fuel, it builds up in the blood, and we go, oh gosh, I better cut my B12. You know, no, you need to just change the form- of B12 that you're using. I have put patients on, no, I don't have patients, I have clients, on B12 supplementation and their B12 has gone down because they start to metabolize.”

“and test red blood cell, like looking at cellular magnesium and cellular zinc and MMA, which is the cellular B12. Knowing those markers versus the standard, I don't know, LDL cholesterol, that's so outdated when ApoB and LPA are so much more important.”

“holy crap, no wonder she's tired. Okay. This is really, really bad. And this is invisible, absolutely invisible to the rest of the physicians because she looks perfect. So I do a B12 level and a thyroid test because I have no idea what to do. And the B12 is profoundly low, low enough that it shows...”

“a B12 level in a headache patient since I've been doing headaches as a part of neurology, which is a large part of neurology. I then start to give B12 recommendations and I do B12 blood tests on all the patients who I have in my little stable. I've done these sleep studies in them.”

“But I did vitamin D levels and B12 levels in a group of about 500 patients between September and December of 2009.”

“some things here that say people are very frequently both low in vitamin D and vitamin B12 at the same time, and this is because they share the same root cause, like a poor gut absorption, aging, or a restrictive diet, not because one vitamin is destroying the other.”

“the B vitamins are very biologically intertwined, both in their intestinal production and cellular use. This suggests that B vitamins, aside from B12, were not meant to be used individually, and returning to restorative sleep with normal supply of the building blocks of cellular repair”

“supplementing B12 if your B12 is at a certain level, below a certain level, taking B50 for three months, and then taking a multivitamin. And that is until your body says, gee, I might need more Bs.”

“stepwise visual assist here. The first three months, if your B12 is low, you will take B12 as a separate supplement. And keep in mind, there's a lot to be learned about multivitamins. For instance, many multivitamins say multivitamin on the front, but they actually have the equivalent of B50 in them.”

“Then, in the second step, for a period of usually, three to four months, you're still taking B12 if you were B12 deficient. You're still taking vitamin D and you're adjusting your vitamin D dosing based on recommendations, based on your D levels that you're doing every month.”

“involved and the B vitamins involved in methylation. So particularly B12 and folate also potentially B6 and riboflavin, although that might depend a little bit more on, on the individual. Then there are some other nutrients that, you know, have some pretty good evidence for them.”

“that specific complex of B vitamins, a very specific form of B12 called methylcobalamin, in a refined form of folate called methylfolate.”

“you may want to write this down, called Hydroxocobalamin It's a form of B12. The most popular form of B12, by the way, is one called cyanocobalamin. Does anyone know what that's made from? Hydrogen cyanide. Yes, it's legal in the United States”

“bind it to a metal called the cobalt metal, and make cyanocobalamin. B12 is a metal. We bind it to other molecules. Methylcobalamin is the one the body uses. Cyanocobalamin is one we generally make synthetically. It's very cheap.”

“Happy to take you to the National Library, Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health and let you read it for yourself. But those forms of B12 exacerbate anxiety. So hydroxycobalamin, the entire complex of B vitamins that I showed you right here, a specific form of folate called methylfolate or folinic acid.”

“Figure out what raw materials, simple raw materials might be missing. What kind of B12 is missing? What is good for you? What kind of, do you need five methylfolate? Those are such important pieces to the methylation balance that leads to the hormones getting out of control.”

“Some of them are really good. They do all the testing, sterility. They have very good quality control. So you get a good product. But they usually have to compound it with something else to get by the regulations, like a B12 or a B6 to say like the patient had nausea from the traditional semaglutide. We can compound them with B12 or B6 to get around the nausea.”

“is more bioavailable. The same principle applies to vitamin B12. Most supplements use a form called cyanocobalamin, but cyanocobalamin is also synthetic and your body has to convert it into the active form called methylcobalamin.”

“is very compromised. You could be taking B12 every single day and still be functionally deficient. This might be why your B12 levels are so high in your blood because they are so low in your cells. And remember, when our cells use it as fuel, the levels drop in our blood.”

“There was a study that compared methylcobalamin and cyanocobalamin supplementation and found similar results in raising serum B12 levels. And that's true if you're only measuring serum B12. But serum B12 doesn't tell you what's happening at a cellular level. It doesn't measure whether or not that B12 is working.”

“in your blood, and still be functionally deficient in B12. Methylcobalamin skips the conversion step entirely. You're giving your body exactly what it needs in the form your body likes.”