6 Causes of a Vitamin B12 Deficiency You’ve Never Heard Before

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today we’re going to discuss the six pauses the B12 deficiency that you’ve never heard before and this is really important because if someone’s deficient B12 they can develop permanent damage into the nervous system into the brain they can have anemia they can have a raised level of homocysteine which is really bad for the heart and they can actually be depressed and have all these medications and treatments for Years yet nothing even touches it because no one addressed the B12 connection various problems can happen with your eyes on many different levels because you have the retina which is all nerve tissue and b12 is needed for anything neurological a person can develop anemia because of the importance of B12 in your red blood cell and even problems within the DNA the B12 is very very important and a huge percentage of the population in the world is deficient in B12 and many times they have a subclinical B12 deficiency and they don’t even know it it’s important to know all the causes that go beyond just lacking B12 in the diet because you don’t consume animal products all right so let’s just jump right in the first one is an H pylori infection okay I’ve read reports and I had a hard time believing this but 50 of the population has an H pylori infection I don’t know if I would agree with that but I will say that it’s a very very high percentage but roughly 80 percent of the population as H pylori in their body whether it’s coming out of remission or not is really depending on the environment of your body but H pylori normally in our bodies doesn’t create a problem okay it lives with our body it cooperates it’s a good relationship but when things change environmentally it can become very very nasty and it’s the underlying cause behind ulcers and gastritis and atrophy of the stomach it can produce gerd symptoms and so on and so on unfortunately the treatments for it involved multiple antibiotics and acids like ppis and unfortunately there’s a lot of non-compliance when people do this simply because they can’t tolerate this this treatment and then you start developing resistance against these antibiotics and now you’re struck between a rock and a hard place because what are they going to do and so their whole goal is to eradicate this H pylori and just kill off this germ not take taking consideration the rest of the body now if we really want to get rid of H pylori we really want to put it back in remission where it belongs and that has everything to do with the environment that this microbe lives in and there’s a couple things you need to know about H pylori it is a neutral fill now what is that that is a microbe that prefers a pH that is more neutral okay like between 5. 5 to 7. 5 7 being neutral here this microbe is existing in an environment that is extremely acidic I mean the normal pH of the stomach should be between one and three right and so if you go all the way up to neutral wow you’re going to have so many problems in your stomach because you now you can’t defend against pathogens that come through the digestive tract uh you’re not going to be able to digest protein you’re gonna have a lot of issues with absorption of minerals but this microbe prefers that pH as we age the pH of your stomach becomes less and less acidic and more and more neutral this is where we have a problem however this H pylori microbe also has enzymes that increase ammonia which is extremely alkaline and it’s a survival mechanism so if this microbe gains traction it itself is going to create an alkaline stomach and give you a lot of problems with digestion and what is that going to do that is going to greatly inhibit B12 why because you need that acid to break down the food to extract B12 B12 is in animal products right if you can’t digest the protein to extract the B12 you’re going to be deficient and not only that H pylori will also deplete your iron reserves your vitamin A your vitamin C and your folic acid so what would be a better approach or a better strategy for this H pylori well number one start acidifying your stomach if you can but many people can’t because they have an ulcer or they have gastritis so if you add more acid to the stomach you’re going to make it worse so what can you do well guess what broccoli Sprouts or even better yet broccoli micro greens have sulfurophane which is a compound of phytonutrient that can kill H pylori okay there’s many other phytonutrients that can kill it but sulforaphane is a great solution another thing to take would be garlic that garlic can kill off H pylori or at least put it back in remission probiotics have been found to inhibit H pylori so here we have doctors recommending antibiotics but why not just use probiotics to really get that thing back in check and just as a side note if you’re on antibiotics right now you better be taking probiotics at the exact same time because that way it will protect you against some of the side effects now a couple other things that can help H pylori Clover and Manuka Honey either or has been known to reduce the infection of H pylori so number one H pylori number two metformin one of the side effects of metformin is a deficiency of B12 as well as B1 okay so if you’re on Metformin you better be taking B12 and B1 if someone’s a diabetic a lot of times they’ll develop what’s called peripheral neuropathy on the bottom of their feet they’ll have like numbness tingling things like that and the remedy is taking some of these B vitamins like B1 in the form of benphotamine to help reverse it but if you don’t know that and you’re taking metformin that’s creating a worsening of this B1 slash B12 deficiency this could be the reason why your peripheral neuropathy and other neuropathy problems are not going away the medication is supposed to help you is actually worsening the situation number three is Snips now what is Snips genetic variations is that give you a propensity or a susceptibility of having certain problems if your environment isn’t just right well there are three genes that I know of that I’m not going to get into that detail of that but you should just know there are genes that are involved with the conversion or activation of B12 as well as the absorption of B12 and it’s not uncommon to have a variation of a gene that doesn’t allow you to absorb the 12. and this is simply because the genetics that you were born with don’t allow for the maximum absorption of B12 and so when I’ve been recently looking at DNA testing with certain people that’s kind of showing up quite often problem with B12 and they had no idea and so the solution for that is to take a natural form of B12 don’t overtake the synthetic version the natural one is called methylcobolamine and the synthetic version is called cyanobolamine another solution is to start consuming foods high in B12 the natural version which would be red meat and beef liver all right the fourth reason why people are deficient in B12 is that they are taking synthetic folic acid okay so folic acid is in our Foods as a fortification as an enhancement as an enrichment they use folic acid in pretty much all the cereals that you hopefully are not eating they also put it in the breads the pasta the crackers the biscuits grain products right anything that’s refined it’s in nutritional yeast it’s in a lot of the supplements it’s in a lot of the energy bars that people have and unfortunately it can build up in the body to a point where it’s toxic especially if someone has a genetic problem with folic acid which is very common and what happens with this consumption of this folic acid okay or this accumulation of folic acid is you start to hide a deficiency of B12 and that can create big problems with B12 methylfolate is a good full acid that doesn’t have to convert okay so it doesn’t need that enzyme that many people have a problem w