Pantothenic Acid

“of Pantothenic Acid. God forbid it's another vitamin. So I happen to have developed over the same time period, this weird buttock pain. I can't sit down to talk to my patients at the end of the day because my butt hurts.”

“book. It says pantothenic acid is a chemical that makes this thing called coenzyme A. Coenzyme A is responsible for making cortisol. I think, I don't think that's causing this burning, but this is something I need to know about.”

“cortisol is big in sleep. We talk about cortisol all the time, the timing of it. And it's huge in inflammation. I go to the vitamin store. I find pantothenic acid. The book says 400 milligrams is the right dose. So I pick up the 400 milligrams and I go to the B complex. I find something called B100, which means there's each one has got a hundred milligrams or a hundred micrograms.”

“400 milligrams of? B5. So pantothenic acid is called B5. All the patients who come back say, okay, were you trying to kill me? This 400 milligrams here, I got so agitated, I stopped it after two days. I felt like I was crawling out of my skin and I couldn't sleep at all. If you block B5, you get insomnia. That means it has power in sleep. D has power in sleep.”

“What you'll see here is B50, which is 50 milligrams of each, but all eight B's, has 50 milligrams of B5 in it. It turns out if you've been taking D for two years, you've actually worked your way into a place where your body has been using more B's and you are now very profoundly deficient.”

“but they haven't been described as B vitamin deficiency states, which is bizarre, but that's the historical point. All of the literature says B5 deficiency doesn't exist because it's in every food. Now, I'm reading that literature and it says thiamine, which is B1, has a poop bacteria source and a food source.”