NEVER IGNORE These Warning Signs!

Find out about some of the common vitamin B12 deficiency symptoms you never want to ignore.

let’s talk about B12 deficiency symptoms that you never want to ignore the interesting thing about B12 is that most people think about a vegan or a vegetarian being deficient in B12 because B12 normally comes from animal products but there are so many other ways that you could become deficient that you need to be aware of so if you’re not able to make DNA correctly or repair DNA number one you’re put at a higher risk for cancer and other problems number two the red blood cell if you can’t make red blood cells you cannot carry oxygen you become anemic so that’s another big one and number three your nervous system in your brain in order to make the milein sheath the stuff around the nerves B12 is necessary and without the B12 without the myin you get a short circuiting neurological problems that don’t just affect your hands and feet but they affect your brain but we’re going to get more into that when we talk into the severe long-term deficiency of B12 so when a person is first deficient in B12 they’re usually G to just feel a little tired they’re going to feel a little bit weaker because the red blood cell is just not able to carry oxygen they might look a little pale and that’s the anemia because they don’t have as many red blood cells and they might even then notice a tingling in their fingertips or their feet which is the start of nerve problems but then as time progresses other things can happen your tongue becomes very smooth shiny and red and swollen you can develop mouth ulcers which by the way I had that when I was younger you could become out of breath very very easily you get dizzy when you stand up too quickly those are severe anemia symptoms then you start having cognitive problems then also your mood starts going down you start getting anxiety other symptoms include circadian rhythm issues so your sleep cycles are off so you just don’t sleep that good anymore and then also because B12 is involved with the nervous system the person starts developing kind of a deficiency of neurotransmitters that show up as depression I mean how many people that are depressed end up going on medication when they really have a B12 deficiency that would be terrible cuz that would camouflage the symptom and they would never get better also if you’re deficient in B12 you can have problems with something called Vitiligo where the actually normal pigment on the skin is not there anymore so you get these white specks throughout the body so there’ll be a problem with pigmentation to the body and sometimes even the cracks in the corner of your mouth right here and I had that as well growing up now when things get really severe you start having all sorts of problems with walking severe muscle weakness a lot more psychiatric problems that go beyond just depression like hallucinations paranoia okay paranoia now even if you have a subclinical B12 deficiency you may feel like Doom and Gloom for no reason I know some people have that at night they have like night terrs and the worst problem about a B12 deficiency chronically or long term is permanent irreversible nerve damage this is where you have all sorts of pain syndromes that are next to impossible to reverse now the unique thing about getting B12 from the diet is that if you’re not consuming animal products you’re not going to probably get it so vegans or vegetarians need to take B12 now before I get into the very strange and unique ways that you could become deficient let’s just talk about the foods that are the absolute highest for B12 at the very top of the list this food has the most B12 the clams okay clams who would think and then we get into to liver then we get sardines then we get red meat now if you do a search on what foods are high in B12 you’re not going to find red meat why because these search engines are programmed to filter out because they’re very biased sometimes anything related to red meat and then if you ask like chat chpt uh why didn’t you include that they’re going to say because red meat is going to put you at risk for cancer and cardiovascular problems and and then you can go back and forth with chat gbt and argue with it till eventually you’ll say well wait a second Now isn’t there a difference between grass-fed uh red meat and processed meat and then chat GPT will apologize and say you’re right and there is no research on grass-fed meat and so you really got to be careful about these search engines because red meat is one of the best sources of B12 then we get to the tuna and the salmon and then grass-fed Dairy and eggs so those are the foods that that have a lot of B12 and our body cells don’t make B12 however in our large intestine we do make some B12 okay but the problem is we can’t absorb it in that large intestine so you never see that B12 it’s probably used by your microbes okay but the way B12 works is that B12 has a a trace mineral in it called Cobalt okay and so here you have this Cobalt vitamin B12 you consume it it goes down to the stomach now because this B12 has a protein molecule connected with it it can be destroyed by the stemach acid so it quickly attaches to another compound to protect it okay and then when it goes into the small intestine it gets absorbed here’s the problem okay if you have low stomach acid you’re not going to be able to absorb B12 okay it’s not going to work how many people have low stomach acid huge amounts especially as you get older after the age of 70 the pH the acid in your stomach is is down by 80% the term is called Chlor hydria okay low stomach acid and I used to test this in my office all the time and I would find people a lot of people had low stomach acid especially if they had heartburn acid reflux gird always low stomach acid so they were very deficient in B12 if you have a genetic problem which is more common than you might think the term for that is called polymorphism not that you needed to know that but if you get a genetic test a DNA test you may find you have a problem absorbing B12 so this is why I take B12 on a regular basis now if you ever ever take B12 supplements make sure that you always take the natural form called methyl camine But realize taking B12 is only the tip of the iceberg you have to have a a healthy liver you have to have an acidic stomach you have to have a healthy small intestine a lot of things have to be right for you to absorb B12 now since we’re on the topic of B12 there’s a little bit more you should know about that in this video right here check it out