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Sunday, February 12, 2023

Vitamin B retake Again 2016 or 2023 ground hog day

 The Year is 2016. Vitamin B

Photo by Wikipedia


           Lets Time Travel some

Vitamin B Protocol was added to my daily regime in 2016 by a excellent Dr. This was taking individual vitamins Bs, not the multivitamin, as that did not have the amount of each vitamin desired, or needed.

This went on for six months .  


Now lets talk about the Ground hog movie..haha


The Year 2023, I am on the Same Vitamin B regime. Forgot I had done this in 2016.

 November 2022 my B12 was found to low. Neurologist wants it above 800, so assume thus All Bs are low.  So now Six months of loading, then off for 2-3 months to be retested, according to the protocol.

I am taking over the counter Bs, in different strengths. All water soluble. My GI said, A expensive experiment, as you pee out any excess.

Vitamin b7 was omitted, as is also known as biotin, and may cause endocrine test to give faulty results.  I was on high doses of Biotin, following a Trial with the real Biotin measured out on a Scale. Weird White Powder. I did get up there using high amounts, followed by a Neurologist. But the outcomes of the Study did not work.


But this time, with more knowledge. I have the H63D double gene, that gave me iron overload in 2017. 17 phlebotomy left me iron deficient for three years. No new phlebotomy needed.  But the Be being added may show a hiccup in next blood test? Read Wikipedia link below.


Several B vitamins aid in the sleep process. Vitamins B1 and B2 not only turn food into energy, but also produce melatonin, the sleep hormone. The production of melatonin shows that these vitamins encourage sleep. Taking a thiamine (vitamin B1) supplement can help you sleep better throughout the night, which will allow you to wake up feeling refreshed. To avoid deficiencies, add vegetables, eggs, and meat to your diet.

Vitamin B6 helps with your thinking ability and supports immune health. Because it aids cognitive function, it is no surprise that vitamin B6 enables you to remember your dreams. It also works to produce the two important hormones – serotonin and melatonin. Whereas melatonin makes you sleepy, serotonin stabilizes your mood. When these hormones are out of whack, your ability to sleep is negatively impacted. 

The combination of serotonin and melatonin produces a relationship between lack of sleep and depression. While not everyone who is depressed has sleep problems, a large percentage of these people suffer from insomnia. Many others with depression sleep too much, a condition called hypersomnia.

Some foods that are rich in vitamin B6 are cheese, fish, bananas and whole grains. A note to make about vitamin B6 is that too much of this vitamin can be toxic. Before starting a supplement, in addition to changing your diet, it’s best to talk to your doctor to ensure your level doesn’t get too high.

Vitamin B12 helps your body produce red blood cells and supports brain and cardiovascular functions. As far as sleep is concerned, it appears that vitamin B12 helps to regulate your circadian rhythm. However, studies show conflicting results about sleep. Some studies revealed that a deficiency led to insomnia, whereas other research showed that high levels were related to interrupted sleep patterns. Keeping your vitamin B12 level within a normal range will have the best outcome for your ability to sleep. To ensure you’re getting enough of this vitamin in your diet, eat shellfish, dairy and eggs.

https://www.activeiron.com/blog/best-time-to-take-vitamins/




What is each B Vitamin good for?

Vitamin B-1 is known as Thiamin. It plays a crucial role in breaking down carbs and protein. Good sources include peanuts, black beans, and grain products. Good sources: Whole or fortified grain products, pork, peanuts, and black beans.

Vitamin B-3 is also called Niacin. Found in peanuts, fish, brown rice, and whole grains.

Vitamin B-6 is involved in a vast amount of metabolic pathways – it’s essential for the optimal breakdown of food (and particularly carbohydrates) from big nutrients into small units the body can use. Good sources include bananas, tuna, chickpeas, and pistachios.

Vitamin B-9 is called Folate, and it’s essential to the production of red blood cells. It’s one of the building blocks of DNA and RNA. Good sources include avocados, leafy greens, broccoli, green peas, and more.

Vitamin B-12 is only found in animal products. Vitamin B-12 is crucial to the normal functioning of the nervous system. It helps to create and regulate RNA, and it’s also involved in the formation of red blood cells. The best time to take vitamin B-12 is in the morning similar to all B vitamins.




https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319556#is-timing-important-for-vitamins


When to take B vitamins

People tend to take B vitamins to boost energy and reduce stress.

There are eight different types of B vitamins, each of which has a separate function for the body. The types of B vitamins are:

thiamin Vitamin B1 or thiamin is essential for glucose metabolism and nerve, muscle, and heart function.

riboflavin B2 Vitamin B2 helps break down proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. It plays a vital role in maintaining the body’s energy supply.

Riboflavin helps convert carbohydrates into adenosine triphosphate (ATP). The human body produces ATP from food, and ATP produces energy as the body requires it. The compound ATP is vital for storing energy in muscles.

Along with vitamin A, vitamin B is essential for:

vitamin B-6.  recent research indicates that vitamin B-6 may potentially interfere with sleepTrusted Source and induce vivid dreams. 

niacin

biotin

vitamin B-12


folic acid or Folate is important for a range of functions in the body.

It helps the body make healthy new red blood cells, for example. Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body. If the body does not make enough of these, a person can develop anemia, leading to fatigue, weakness, and a pale complexion.

Without enough folate, a person can also develop a type of anemia called folate deficiency anemia.

Folate is also important for the synthesis and repair of DNA and other genetic material, and it is necessary for cells to divide



From BrainMD.Com

https://brainmd.com/blog/folic-acid-vs-folate-everything-you-need-to-know/#:~:text=Methylfolate%20is%20the%20folate%20form,absorb%20it%20into%20the%20blood. 

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOLATE, FOLIC ACID, AND METHYLFOLATE?


Many foods are being “fortified” with folic acid (FA) to help consumers maintain good nutritional folate status. Also, dietary supplements that include folate typically provide it as FA. Yet this substance is a manufactured folate that is known to be poorly utilized by the body’s folate enzyme system. The body has to use an enzyme to make FA usable, and this enzyme’s conversion capacity is limited. Consequently, many people have unconverted FA in their bloodstream, which studies have linked to negative health effects.


Methylfolate is the folate form most naturally preferred by the body, so much so that the intestinal lining has “transport proteins” that bind to it and selectively absorb it into the blood. Similar proteins also move MF from the circulation into the brain tissue. But MF utilization can be blocked by the FA coming from fortified foods or poorly formulated dietary supplements. Folic acid is not just poorly effective — it actually interferes with the enzymes that are tasked with using MF and the other folates coming from our foods. Folic acid consumption is a serious health issue.


Bottom line: always choose supplements with methylfolate instead of folic acid.


Now the MTHFR Gene people think plays how items are absorbed. Yes an no?

The below is a great blog that talks about this.

About Methylfolate

https://anabundantlife.com.au/methylfolate-feel-bad/


Have you ever wondered how many b vitamins there are?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_vitamins

This is one of my favorite, as describes in detail all the B vitamins. I will let you look at this link on your research.

Vitamin D, has been talked about in prior blogs. Perhaps the best defense in MS, and keeping things in control. However, be followed by a endocrinologist, as D can pull calcium from bones, put into blood stream, cause kidney stones and more at high dose.

Vitamin K-4 will help keep this from happening.


A Experiment for Scientist in the making.


Now what happened to all my post for the last year and half?  Made them, just not right time for posting them, as  under investigation by experts experts, Alarming, perhaps, but so is MS, or anything.  More info doesn't change anything, just gives different perspectives.


Ok, enough of ground hog day repeating in another year,

Take time to listen to the birds!

Thanks for reading. Feel free to comment, as have not covered everything needed

JoeY


Sunday, November 20, 2022

Vitamin B and what is effected in MS with DNA

 

Vitamin B

Image from Wikipedia


B1 is used for Metabolism.  According to Wikipedia, "Thiamine, also known as thiamin and vitamin B1, is a vitamin, an essential micronutrient, that cannot be made in the body.[3][4] It is found in food and commercially synthesized to be a dietary supplement or medication.[1][5] Phosphorylated forms of thiamine are required for some metabolic reactions, including the breakdown of glucose and amino acids.[1] "


B2,  Riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, is a vitamin found in food and sold as a dietary supplement. It is essential to the formation of two major coenzymes...f!avin mononucleotide and flavin adenine dinucleotide  What is riboflavin and what does it do? Riboflavin (also called vitamin B2) is important for the growth, development, and function of the cells in your body. It also helps turn the food you eat into the energy you need.


B3 Niacin. It can treat high cholesterol and triglyceride levels as well as niacin deficiency. It can also reduce the risk of heart attack and slow narrowing of the arteries.

Overview. Niacin is a B vitamin that's made and used by your body to turn food into energy. It helps keep your nervous system, digestive system and skin healthy.

 key difference between vitamin B3 and B12 is that vitamin B3 is important in controlling cholesterol and triglyceride levels in our blood, whereas vitamin B12 is important as a cofactor in DNA synthesis for both fatty acid and amino acid metabolism.Niacin, also known as vitamin B3, is an important nutrient. In fact, every part of your body needs it to function properly. As a supplement, niacin may help lower cholesterol, ease arthritis, and boost brain function, among other benefits.

May reduce blood pressure. One role of niacin is to release prostaglandins, or chemicals that help your blood vessels widen — improving blood flow and reducing blood pressure. For this reason, niacin may play a role in the prevention or treatment of high blood pressure 

Vitamin B3 is a member of the vitamin family, which includes three forms of vitamers as nicotinamide, niacin, and nicotinamide riboside. Vitamin B12 is a type of vitamin involved in metabolism in our body.

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B5. Pantothenic acid, also called vitamin B₅ is a water-soluble B vitamin and therefore an essential nutrient. All animals require pantothenic acid in order to synthesize coenzyme A – essential for fatty acid metabolism – as well as to, in general, synthesize and metabolize proteins, carbohydrates, and fats     what is B5 vitamins good for? In addition to playing a role in the breakdown of fats and carbohydrates for energy, vitamin B5 is critical to the manufacture of red blood cells, as well as sex and stress-related hormones produced in the adrenal glands, small glands that sit atop the kidneys.

B6. Vitamin B-6 pyridoxine is important for normal brain development and for keeping the nervous system and immune system healthy. Food sources of vitamin B-6 include poultry, fish, potatoes, chickpeas, bananas and fortified cereals Vitamin B6 is a vitamin that benefits the central nervous system and metabolism. Its roles include turning food into energy and helping to create neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and dopamine.Vitamin B6 is one of eight B vitamins. This group of vitamins is important for proper cell function. They help with metabolism, creating blood cells, and keeping cells healthy.  also known as pyridoxine, vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin, which means it dissolves in water. The body does not store vitamin B6 and releases any excess in urine, so people need to get enough vitamin B6 every day.

B9  Folic Acid.  aids in the production of DNA and RNA, the body's genetic material, and is especially important when cells and tissues are growing rapidly, such as in infancy, adolescence, and pregnancy. Folic acid also works closely with vitamin B12 to help make red blood cells and help iron work properly in the body.

Vitamin B9, also called folate or folic acid, is one of 8 B vitamins. All B vitamins help the body convert food (carbohydrates) into fuel (glucose), which is used to produce energy.

What happens when you lack B9? Vitamin B9 deficiency can lead to anaemia and might increase your risk of heart disease. It's also really important during early pregnancy for a developing baby. Signs of deficiency include tiredness, weakness, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and difficulty concentrating.

When you have anemia, your blood can't bring enough oxygen to all your tissues and organs. Without enough oxygen, your body can't work as well as it should. Low levels of folic acid can cause megaloblastic anemia. With this condition, red blood cells are larger than normal. It works wit B12

Folic acid helps make healthy red blood cells, which carry oxygen around the body. If you do not have enough folic acid, your body can make abnormally large red blood cells that do not work properly. This causes folate deficiency anaemia, which can cause tiredness and other symptoms.

What is Methyl Folate?
Methylfolate, sometimes known as L Methylfolate or 5-MTHF, is the active, more bioavailable form of the essential B-Vitamin Folic Acid. In order for the body to use Folic Acid, it must first be converted to Methyl Folate. 

Folic acid and folate can be cheap, but methylfolate tends to be the most effective option when it comes to treating the unique needs of MTHFR and giving the body an enzyme it can directly act upon. L-methylfolate (chemically (6S)-5-Methyltetrahydrofolate) is the most pure, active form of methylfolate you can buy.


B12 Vitamin B₁₂, also known as cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin involved in metabolism. It is one of eight B vitamins. It is required by animals, which use it as a cofactor in DNA synthesis, in both fatty acid and amino acid metabolism. Wikipedia

Vitamin B12 is a nutrient that helps keep your body's blood and nerve cells healthy and helps make DNA, the genetic material in all of your cells. Vitamin B12 also helps prevent megaloblastic anemia, a blood condition that makes people tired and weak

Methylcobalamin. Methylcobalamin is the most bio-available type of Vitamin B12 which means the body absorbs it more easily. Naturally occurring, it is found in animal-based foods such as meat, fish, milk and eggs

People sometimes ask which of the two supplements is better – the artificial (cyanocobalamin) or naturally occurring (methylcobalamin). Studies have shown that cyanocobalamin is known to absorb slightly better within the body while methylcobalamin is considered to retain better and for longer.Aug 23, 2022.

t, and eat thru your gut.ry

DNA. mthfre Gene


The MTHFR gene codes for a key 

enzyme in folate metabolism

I just so happen to have this Gene, and wrote about it before I found out I was Vitamin Deficiency of B12.  I am below 200. Neurologist wants me above 800. I went thru my entire team, to ensure the individual combinations might be of help.  It may be a double edge sword though, as thick blood cells become problematic.
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency is the most common genetic cause of elevated serum levels of homocysteine (hyperhomocysteinemia). It is caused by genetic defects in MTHFR, which is an important enzyme in the methyl cycle.[1]


Thanks for reading.
Hope this will let you question each vitamin, and amount used, and why.
I did not go into full details, but a starting point.
Energy Drinks full of only certain B vitamins, that may not be the best to try


My Dr also agreed, that if I'm deficient in b12, that I am deficient in other B Vitamins.

I am not a Doctor, so check with yours before taking any supplements. Some may interfere with other meds.

A few of ones to start with. Vitamin B7, or Biotin, i stayed away from, as it effects blood test
B1 250mg metabolism
B2 as Riboflavin 100mg
B3 as Niacin 500 mg
B5 as Pantothenic Acid 500 Mg
B6 100 mg Metabolism support
B9 800 Mcg as folic Acid
B9 Methylfolate
B12 as Methylcobalamin 2000 mcg
B12 as cyanocobalamin 3000