Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Despite other studies also finding reductions in homocysteine, there was no substantial evidence indicating that b vitamins lowered CVD risk [281, 284]. Furthermore, supplemental doses that have been used (ranging between 20 pg and 2.5 mg folate; 200 pg and 50 mg vitamin B6; and 0.4 mg and 1 mg vitamin B12) are greater than what can be achieved through dietary sources alone and are far higher than current recommended intakes. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Good sources of b vitamins include whole grains and dried beans (soaked and cooked). Most diets are too low in these vitamins, so a 50- to 100-mg B-complex supplement is usually needed.
What men can do: Make it easy for her to avoid sugar and caffeine by cutting back on them yourself—your health will benefit, too. If she seems distant or on edge, don't take it personally. Remind yourself that it is not you—it is her biochemistry that is acting up. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Vitamin B-l (Thiamine)The b vitamins are water-soluble but, as with all vitamins and minerals, do not go overboard. Vitamin B-l maintains normal function of the nervous system, and improves brain power in pets according to Wendell Belfield, DVM. In addition, some pet owners claim vitamin B-1 works as a flea repellent.
Vitamin B-l is found in beef liver and kidneys, whole grains, bran oatmeal, salmon, wheat germ, peanuts, and kidney beans. Vitamin B-l deficiencies may result in: unsteadiness, decreased learning ability, loss of appetite, fatigue, and vomiting. |
Elaine Magee
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 And don't overlook other types of seafood: Crab in particular has all three b vitamins with synergy (folic acid, B6, and B12).
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Another method that's especially good for more delicate types of whitefish is to wrap each serving in foil and place it on the grill. The fish will marinate in its own moisture as it cooks. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Kaare Harald Bonaa, a professor of medicine and consultant cardiologist at the Institute of Community Medicine at the University of Tromso in Norway. "B vitamins do not prevent heart disease."
THE SECOND STUDY
In the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE) 2 study, researchers gave more than 5,500 patients who had diabetes or vascular disease supplements of folic acid and vitamins B-6 and B-12, or a placebo. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Multivitamin use was most popular (38%) followed by single or combined antioxidant use (21%) and b vitamins (8%) [244]. The primary reason for using dietary supplements was to achieve self-care goals, as a means of ensuring good health, alleviating depression, and for "medicinal" purposes to treat and prevent various illnesses, including the common cold and flu [243].
Epidemiologic and clinical studies that have evaluated dietary supplements in the prevention or treatment of disease are inconsistent, showing little or no benefit. |
Elaine Magee
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| Beans are also full of b vitamins, potassium, and fiber, which promote digestive health and relieve constipation. Eating beans may also help prevent colon cancer and reduce blood cholesterol, a leading cause of heart disease.
Beans may help reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease. In terms of possible heart protection, start with the antioxidants and phytochemicals in beans, then add in the fact that beans are one of the highest-fiber plant foods on the planet, with V2 cup generally contributing 7 grams of fiber. |
Marshall Editions
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 A supplement that supplies 10,000 IU of vitamin A a day is suggested—but pregnant women should not take more than 10,000 IU of vitamin. The b vitamins have shown positive benefits for persons with hearing loss. A high-potency complete B-complex is recommended. Alternatives are to take 500 mg of
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Bottom Line Health
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| Vitamins May Fight Cravings
In a recent study, people who had taken multivitamins, b vitamins or chromium regularly for the past 10 years gained less weight than people who did not take them.
Possible reason: The body's craving for certain essential nutrients may cause hunger. Vitamin/mineral supplements may lessen hunger by supplying nutrients that would have been supplied by food.
Best: Take a multivitamin/mineral that provides chromium and the daily recommended intake of vitamins B-6 and B-12.
Emily White, PhD, epidemiologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Buckwheat is high in fiber, magnesium, b vitamins, and manganese. It contains flavonoids such as rutin, which helps lower bad cholesterol levels and maintain proper blood flow. Buckwheat has lignans, such as entero-lactone, which may protect against breast cancer and heart disease. It contains the beneficial antioxidants vitamin E, tocotrienols, selenium, phenolic acids, and phytic acid.
Home Remedies
The Chinese Army feeds buckwheat to its soldiers because they believe it gives them more strength and stamina. |
Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH
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 Even though he did not notice any reduction in anxiety, he continued to take the following nutrients daily: 6 to 12 g of vitamin C; 800 IU of vitamin E; 50 mg of zinc; a B-complex containing 100 mg of each of the B vitamins; 1000 mg of calcium; and 400 mg of magnesium. During his medical residency, he purposely avoided his assigned patients, his condition significantly interfering with his ability to perform. Due to the urgency that he felt, he once again sought the help from a medical doctor, who prescribed 0.5 mg of Ativan (lorazepam) twice daily. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 At the same time we have B-vitamin deficiencies, which is interesting because so many of the popular food products sold in grocery stores all over the country and around the world actually deplete the body of b vitamins. The two most common ingredients in our foods seem to be white flour and sugar. It's hard to find any product in the grocery store, it seems, that isn't made with flour or some form of added sugars, whether it's sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose or just plain sugar. |
| For example, when a person eats a donut, that donut contains both white flour and added sugars, which deplete the body of b vitamins, causing deficiencies. And it is these deficiencies that lead to antisocial behavior, aggressive behavior and ultimately criminal behavior - especially among males.
Another dietary factor in these behavioral disorders, it turns out, is a lack of quality protein. People aren't getting high quality protein because they think the only place to get protein is from beef and red meat, when in fact superfoods like spirulina offer much higher quality protein. |
KC Craichy
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 The tragic result of this massive deficiency of b vitamins within the body is that the body has now become prone to the many potentially lethal symptoms of B-vitamin deficiency, including insanity, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, chronic fatigue, cerebral dysfunction, and even outright death. |
| The beneficial bacteria crowd out unwanted species, produce natural antibiotics to kill pathogenic bacteria, help digest foods, and make many of our b vitamins and Vitamin K as well. Another recently discovered function of probiotics (another name for beneficial flora) is "crosstalk" between the flora and the intestinal lining. This occurs through uptake of parts of the bacteria and may literally be bacterial vibrations communicating with the intestinal lining itself. The result is healthy immune balancing in the intestines, which is responsible for at least 60 percenr of our immunity. |
Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH
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| Prescribing b vitamins and EssentialFatty Acids
Thiamine
When optimal doses of thiamine are used, side effects are rare, but can include nervousness, itching, flushing, shortness of breath, tachycardia, a sensation of heat, perfuse perspiration, headache, insomnia, irritability, muscle tremors, and weakness.111 have treated several patients for cardiovascular disease with very high doses of thiamine (2 g or more per day), and have not seen any of these reported side effects.
Pyridoxine
Pyridoxine has several unusual side effects that must be considered when prescribing optimal doses. |
| From his readings, he decided to take the following nutrients daily: 6 to 12 g of vitamin C; 800 IU of vitamin E; 50 mg of zinc; a B-complex containing 100 mg of each of the B vitamins; 1000 mg of calcium; and 400 mg of magnesium. Although he followed this plan diligently, his anxiety did not lessen. After 6 months of the vitamin plan, he added a standardized extract of Kava two to three times each day. Within 2 weeks, his anxiety symptoms were markedly improved. He was able to be in stressful social situations without blushing or appearing nervous. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If people ate more molasses or used it in their cooking or their oatmeal, they would get more b vitamins, more magnesium, more zinc. They would be healthier. We'd see a drop in the rate of Alzheimer's disease, nervous system disorders, and behavioral disorders, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other so called "behavioral diseases."
You may think it sounds crazy that these foods would some day be banned. But I think it's crazy to ban extracts of these foods. They're trying to ban these natural ingredients right now. |
Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH
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| All of Abbey's patients required 200 to 500 mg of the b vitamins to resolve both the associated enzymatic defects and the symptoms of their anxiety and panic. Dramatic improvements occurred in 83% of the patients.
Inositol
Inositol is an important intracellular second-messenger precursor that is used by some muscarinic, noradrenergic alpha1, and serotonergic (5-HT2) receptors. When supplemented at optimal doses peripherally, inositol gains entrance into the brain and significantly raises brain levels.6
In an early report by C.C. |
| Minerals, antioxidants, and b vitamins (especially pyridoxine), in conjunction with optimal amounts of omega-3 EFAs, produce necessary prostaglandins of the three series. Rudin considered the production of these prostaglandins to be absolutely required in order to improve or reverse the clinical presentation of substrate pellagra. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| What you'll get are lots of b vitamins for your brain, including B12 and folate, two of the most important ones.
"In our study, we found that low levels of either of these two vitamins were related to an increased Alzheimer's disease risk," says Hui-Xin Wang, a researcher with the Swedish Kungsholmen Project. His study monitored the levels of these vital nutrients in 370 healthy people age 75 and older for three years.
People with low amounts of B12 and folate had higher homocysteine levels. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Here we have a nutrient deficiency, most notably the b vitamins, that is causing children to act aggressively and be diagnosed with ADHD. The solution offered by conventional medicine is to dose them with antidepressant drugs that actually promote more aggressive behavior as we've seen in recent school killings. What kind of solution is that? It sounds crazy, but it's exactly the solution being implemented every day, right now, all across the country. Perhaps even with your child. But these kids don't need drugs; they need vitamins, nutrition and healthy foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For example, if you buy the Alive Whole Food Energizer, you're not going to see on the label a listing of the b vitamins, the C vitamins, the antioxidants and so on, because it's not broken down like that. It just tells you what foods were used to make the product. From there, you have to understand that those foods provide those nutrients and much more in a full spectrum of great nutrition.
It's also important to take these supplements from several different sources. You don't want to take superfoods every day and rely on that as your only source of supplemental nutrition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Malnourished children weren't getting crucial minerals like zinc and iron, and they weren't getting the b vitamins they needed to develop healthy nervous systems. And a healthy nervous system is a prerequisite for mental and emotional health and stability.
Now let's talk about these nutrients in a little more detail and explore why these nutritional deficiencies are so widespread. Zinc is perhaps the single most common nutritional deficiency in the American population. Estimates are that more than 80% of the population is deficient in zinc. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And this one ingredient -- refined white flour -- strips the body of essential nutrition, leaving it deficient in b vitamins as well as minerals like magnesium and zinc. These are precisely the minerals that children need in order to build healthy nervous systems and avoid behavioral disorders later in life. These are also the same nutrients that pregnant women need to be able to give birth to babies that don't have birth defects. |
Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH
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| In terms of nutrient dependencies, though, I will demonstrate that many causes of anxiety are probably the result of nutrient dependencies to vitamins, specifically vitamin B-3 (niacin or niacinamide), B-12 (cobalamin), and other b vitamins, as well as inositol, specific amino acids, minerals (calcium and magnesium), or omega-3 essential fatty acids.
Associated Cerebral Allergies
Foods and other substances have the capability of causing anxiety and other neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 They help us to synthesize b vitamins, which are necessary for the health of our nervous and digestive systems. If you are lactose intolerant it's probably because you've taken antibiotics and you have killed all the good bacteria. Good bacteria are responsible for breaking down lactose. If you have any other nutritional deficiencies, which you probably do, one reason is because whatever you take in is not getting into the cells of your body. Without the good bacteria dominating the internal environment, yeast (or Candida) will convert into its fungal form. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Some b vitamins and Gamma-Linolenic Acid Help Neuropathy
Diabetic neuropathy can cause severe pain, tingling, numbness, and weakness. Conventional therapy, which consists primarily of medications to relieve pain, is often ineffective. A number of different nutrients have been found to relieve diabetic neuropathy. Although it is not always clear how these nutrients work, they are safe and are thetefore worth a try.
In one study, 3 patients with diabetic neuropathy were treated with the B vitamin biotin, beginning with intramuscular injections and followed by 5 mg pet day by mouth. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Also, take a B-complex b vitamins. meals. Look for products standardized per 1,000 mg or 1,200 G.D.U. (gelatin-has a natural anti-inflammatory effect, this benefit.
Super Prescription #3 Boswellia (Boswellia serrata)
Take 1,200 to 1,500 mg of a standardized extract containing 60 to 65 percent boswellic acids, two to three times daily. It acts as a natural anti-inflammatory.
Super Prescription #4 Calcium and magnesium
Take a complex containing 500 mg of calcium and 250 mg of magnesium twice daily. This reduces muscle tightness and nerve irritation. |
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