The 7 WARNING Signs of a B12 Deficiency - Dr. Berg

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let’s talk about the seven warning signs of a b12 deficiency now b12 is it’s kind of an important vitamin it’s involved in making dna myelin sheath which is the coating around the nerves like in this wire if we were to take off the outside coating okay that would potentially short circuit same thing that happens in your nervous system we’ll cover that also b12 is involved in making things like red blood cells which is kind of important so b12 is very very vital and it’s important for you to know these symptoms because there’s usually like seven big symptoms that are not necessarily related but it’s important to identify them because one thing about a b12 deficiency is that if you’re deficient you can actually experience irreversible damage to your nervous system so we’re going to cover all that but i first wanted to mention uh one thing about the type of b12 there’s two types there’s a natural version of e12 and there’s a synthetic version of course i’m going to recommend always take the natural version and the natural version is called methylcobolamine that’s the one that you want to take in your supplements the other one that’s synthetic that i don’t recommend is called cyanocobolamine i recommend you avoid that one because it’s synthetic now what’s kind of interesting about b12 is that the main reason why people are deficient is not necessarily that they’re not eating foods with b12 it has to do with malabsorption or just they’re not able to absorb b12 the b12 absorption is very complex there’s a lot of things that are happening from the stomach to the small intestine and the absorption your body needs this carrier transportation protein to help you absorb it it’s called intrinsic factor and if you don’t have it or you have an autoimmune disease you can get something called pernicious anemia which i don’t want to get into that but it’s a another problem because you have an autoimmune disease to this thing called intrinsic factor or the cells that make it which is in the stomach but the point is that the reason why people can’t absorb it is because they either have some type of atrophy of the stomach or they’re lacking hydrochloric acid or they have gastritis or they have an ulcer of the stomach or they have celiac or crohn’s or irritable bowel syndrome further into the digestive tract so any of these conditions can severely block the absorption of b12 and so many people have those issues and then they become deficient in b12 because they don’t connect the dots they don’t understand to absorb b12 you need a good digestive system and b12 is very common in the elderly about 20 percent of everyone over the age of 60 has a b12 deficiency now personally i think that the big reason is the lack of hydrochloric acid uh either production or they just don’t have the the concentration of acid in their stomach it’s as we get older we lose the acidity of our stomach and also the ability to absorb b12 and so this is another reason why i recommend everyone over the age of 55 start taking things to acidify the stomach like retain hydrochloride like apple cider vinegar that alone will just start increasing b12 and the person will start having more and more energy now we don’t need much b12 we need it in micrograms not milligrams so an average person would need anywhere between 2. 4 micrograms to 2. 8 micrograms very small amounts but when you buy a b complex product which you have to be careful because most of them are synthetic when looking the label will say like a thousand to five thousand percent more b12 than your body really needs so there is some problems with excessive amounts of b12 but typically with b12 i recommend you get it from the diet it’s very easy to get from the diet so let’s talk about the foods that you can get b12 of course animal liver okay like beef liver you’re gonna get a lot of b12 or kidney okay personally i don’t like liver or kidney but you can get it as a supplement if you’re anemic clams and other seafood sardines beef okay other meats chicken fish some fermented products like kimchi sauerkraut might have b12 also fermented dairy as in cheese has some b12 insects uh have b12 so if you ever get the hankering for you know crunching on some insects you’ll get some b12 and also nutritional yeast but not really because when you buy nutritional yeast a lot of times it just says it’s fortified and so they add a synthetic b12 to it and i don’t recommend that i do have a nutritional yeast product and i do add one thing to it and that is the natural version of b12 methylcobolamine but many nutritional yeast products are fortified and anytime it’s fortified they always use synthetics and it’s from usually petroleum and so i don’t recommend fortified nutritional yeast now another interesting thing about b12 especially if someone’s a vegan or vegetarian is that they don’t eat animal products so usually they’re going to be deficient unless they take b12 and when i had my wheatgrass juice powder product evaluated i had them test b12 just to see if there was any b12 in it and i was actually shocked to find that it was double what uh our requirements were and i thought it was a mistake but where that b12 is coming from is the bacteria living in that nutritional yeast product because we don’t use high heats and it’s done on temperatures of nothing greater than 106. so apparently microorganisms that live around plants can make b12 all right let’s go through these symptoms there’s seven of them okay number one pale skin now why would you experience pale skin well because you’re not able to make red blood cells and you’re not getting the oxygen and so your body is starving of oxygen and you’re looking a rather pale like you would see in someone that’s anemic now sometimes your skin might be a little yellow or jaundice because the red blood cells are fragile and the byproducts can then create that appearance all right number two you’re going to feel constant fatigue weak you’re always going to be sleepy and drowsy no matter how much you try to get some sleep that is because without oxygen your metabolism can’t work you’re just going to be always tired all right number three mouth problems you may have ulcers in your mouth you may have a shiny swollen red tongue why because the tongue is not able to get oxygen and it’s swelling up all right number four cognitive issues so without b12 you can be very very depressed severely depressed you can have anxiety you can have memory problems you can have paranoia you can be delusional your thinking really gets thrown off if you don’t have enough b12 because both the brain and the nervous system need b12 when the brain doesn’t get oxygen it just cannot work all right number five and this does relate to the cognitive function but nerves okay if you’re deficient in b12 you’re not going to be able to make myelin myelin is the coating around the nerves like they talked about and so if you can’t make this myelin you’re going to start getting a short circuiting problem in the nervous system and that’s going to show up as peripheral neuropathy now what’s the definition of peripheral well the outer edges of something right and neuropathy neural nerve pathy means disorder so it’s a disorder of the nerve on the outer edges of your body like your toes or the bottom of your feet or your fingertips in practice i’ve usually noticed that it was mainly in the feet not the hands but it can occur in the hands so we have peripheral neuropathy now if you’re very severely deficient in b12 you can experience irreversible nerve damage and you can be in severe pain i mean it’s it’s really really bad because it’s irreversible so what are you gonna do so this is why i’m doing this video so you can catch it before it creates irreversible nerve damage i mean in practice i had a guy come in with this pr