11 Vitamin B6 Deficiency Symptoms You’ve NEVER Heard Before

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today we’re going to talk about vitamin B6 deficiency symptoms that you’ve never heard before now the data I’m going to share with you is out of this book right here one of my favorite books laboratory evaluations for integrative and functional medicine it’s amazing because it covers every aspect of nutrition uh in depth so I’ve tore this book up many times so it’s fantastic now what’s interesting about B6 is that if you look this up they will tell you it’s very rare to have a deficiency and they never talk about this idea of subclinical deficiencies of nutrients instead they focus on these major deficiency symptoms but this is going to be interesting topic let me just kind of go through it most people might know that if you’re deficient in B6 you’ll typically have rashes around your nose you might have cracks or rashes around your mouth uh you might even get pink eye as a symptom you can get anemia as well as neurological problems which involves numbness in the bottom of your hands and your feet which typically come from a B1 deficiency but also from a B6 deficiency some people might know that you can get depressed if you’re deficient in B6 but today I want to talk about all the other problems that you can end up with if you’re low in B6 but first let me just kind of give you some interesting information about B6 vitamin B6 is involved in over40 different enzyme Pathways so you can imagine how broadly this vitamin extends into our bodily functions and yes there are toxicity symptoms but typically B6 is a water soluable vitamin so you would have to consume over a, milligrams of B6 to have some problems now typically there are no side effects if you’re taking less than 200 milligrams per day but the side effects start going up um if you get over a thousand and the main side effect will be neurological issues like neuropathy so neuropathy can come from a deficiency of B6 and too much B6 but rarely do I know anyone taking over you know 200 milligrams per day now the other interesting thing about B6 deficiencies is it can be used as an indicator for inflammation status it’s highly correlated for C-reactive protein which is an inflammatory biomarker and people especially with gut inflammation IBS have low levels of B6 and when people talk about B6 um they’re really talking about a collection of a group of different compounds that are precursors to the active form of B6 and the active form is uh p5p I won’t get into the long name you don’t need to know that but when you see the form p5p that is the active form um the other forms are like precursors that have to turn into this active form and the food to achieve the best bioavailability of B6 would be from Beef Pork Fish and Chicken Dairy and eggs are not the best source and even plant-based B6 is not the best source so here are the symptoms that very few people know about that are related to a B6 deficiency I just mentioned inflammation so let’s put that on the top of the list so inflammation especially of the gut could be related to a B6 deficiency number two uh B6 helps control polyunsaturated fatty acids those are the ones that I always tell people to avoid like from corn oil soy oil canola cotton seed oil things like that and also if you’re consuming a lot of these oils and you can’t metabolize it because you don’t have enough B6 Um this can lead to the dermatitis rashes that I mentioned uh when I first talked about this number three B6 is intimately involved in making neurotransmitters like serotonin dopamine and you can imagine all the symptoms that can occur from having deficiency of neurotransmitters so in other words B6 is necessary to make all of these neurotransmitters so it can affect your mood it can affect uh having addictions it can affect your general state of just um nerve Communication number four B6 is involved in the conversion from something called ala to DHA now what is that walnuts have a good amount of ala which is a precursor to the active form of the omega-3 fatty acid so let’s say for example you don’t consume a lot of fish or fish oils or cod oil and you’re doing a lot of walnuts thinking that you’re getting all the um necessary precursors to make your omega-3 fatty acid well without B6 you might not be able to convert this as well and this could lead to more inflammation all right the next one number five uh B6 is necessary to make selenium work now selenium is involved in a lot of other things from making glutathione uh to involved in converting your thyroid hormones from the inactive to the active so you can see indirectly that B6 deficiency could lead to all sorts of other deficiencies related to a lack of selenium doing its work in different enzymes number six B6 is necessary to convert tryptophan into niin number seven B6 is necessary in a lot of different things related to amino acids one of the things that can occur as a problem is alopecia hair loss because you don’t have enough B6 in another study I found that B6 is intimately involved in an enzyme that if you’re deficient you can have a higher risk of getting seizures if you know anyone who has seizures you should make sure they’re consuming more B6 another thing that B6 is needed for is lowering homocysteine which can affect your heart in a negative way typically um people might know to reduce your homosysteine you take enough B12 and folate but B6 is also necessary as well let’s say someone’s deficient in B6 and they also have a problem with their gut microbiome they’re greatly more susceptible to having autism than if they just had a B6 deficiency and they had good microbes in other words there’s this whole gut brain interaction that um can influence symptoms of autism especially if you’re deficient in B6 does it all come from diet actually not a portion of this B6 comes from your own microbiome in the large intestine making B6 just like it makes a lot of other B vitamins so this relates to one of the reasons why people are deficient in B6 when they take antibiotics especially for things like TB because of this lack of B6 anyway I would just recommend if if you know anyone with autism make sure they’re taking the active form of B6 p5p as well as taking a good probiotic and just to give you a little more information about that B6 helps regulate or suppress gut pathogens so those are the symptoms but how are people deficient well eating too many processed foods also taking diuretics certain medications like high blood pressure medication can create a deficiency taking certain antibiotics ICS also being on birth control pills drinking alcohol if you’re pregnant or lactating also smoking creates a deficiency certain herbicides as in glyphosate in all the GMO foods and even taking high levels of an herb called Geno Boba can create a deficiency but you’d have to take quite a bit of that compound now because of the sensoring and the suppressing of the algorithms on YouTube it’s becoming more difficult to find my content and 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