The Common Vitamin Deficiency in Numb Hands and Pins and Needles

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let’s talk about the hidden Factor okay a vitamin deficiency in numb hands or pins and needles in your hands or your feet okay a lot of people have this they might even have carpal tunnel syndrome and there’s a hidden cause for it and I want to talk about it but I first want to kind of give you some definitions of some words that might be new the first term is myelin myelin myelin is the coating around the nervous system it allows the nerve impulses to travel and without this myelin you’re going to have a short circuit in the electrical system and you can get all sorts of what’s called paresthesia which means abnormal sensation and paresthesia could be a combination of numbness tingling pins and needles cold hot burning pain can come from a lack of myelin on your nervous system or your spine final column okay and the medical term for that is demyelination the removal of this myelin sheath around the nervous system now and there’s another term I want to introduce you to and that’s called myelopathy Okay what’s myelopathy myelopathy if you break it down Milo meaning spinal cord and pathy meaning suffering okay so your spinal cord is suffering you know from various reasons and one reason is the myelin sheath is breaking down and when that myelin sheath breaks down you start feeling Sensations in your hands and your feet one cause of this could be diabetes okay where you have the loss of the smile and sheath because your sugar is too high and that’s usually a deficiency of thymine okay because thymine is also involved in making the myelin and so you would just take more thiamine and change your diet and that problem would greatly improve and that usually happens in your feet first okay not necessarily in the hands but it can happen in the hands but it’s mainly in the bottom of the feet but if it’s in the hands one cause of this breakdown in myelin is a vitamin B12 deficiency it’s actually quite common a lot of people are not getting enough B12 and that’s why I’m doing this video right now to bring up your awareness and make this connection between a symptom that I probably haven’t talked about very much and that is the loss of myelin in the cervical spine in your neck that’s where it can commonly occur so you can even see this degeneration in the spinal column on an MRI and the various parts of the spinal column can then relate to problems that happen down the arm into the fingertips a B12 deficiency can also give you other symptoms as well that might not be as common like your gait when you walk you can feel like you’re out of balance almost like you drink some alcohol which when you really didn’t drink any alcohol you’re shuffling along this problem in the smaller column in your neck from the B12 deficiency can also show up in other parts of your body it can show up as urinary retention bladder problems you can have bladder problems from a problem in your neck interesting you can have problems in your feet like the numbness the paresthesia from a problem in your neck you can even press your head down Flex it down like this and cause shooting pain down your spine just from this the myelin sheath missing in your neck and of course you can have a lot of stiffness in your neck as well and another reason I’m bringing this up is as we age okay we lose stomach acid okay and when we lose stomach acid we cannot absorb B12 and so a lot of people that are older have a B12 deficiency and they also have a lot of neurological issues too with their fingers and they also have a lot of degeneration and pain in their neck too if you take an x-ray of their spine in the neck you’ll see that there’s a lot of breakdown here and some of that degeneration at least on an MRI could be coming from a B12 deficiency on top of a pre-existing injury and things like that if you don’t know that you know let’s say you get surgery for your neck and you still have a problem or you get some type of therapy for the pain and you still have a problem why because you haven’t made this link between B12 and the myelin sheath so now let’s complete the list of why someone is low in B12 is it just because they’re not consuming in that B12 that could be maybe they’re a vegan or a vegetarian and they don’t eat animal products B12 is very high in animal products right you have the the beef the lamb the pork the chicken organ Meats for sure it’s in Fish seafood shellfish it’s also an eggs cheese and so if someone doesn’t eat those Foods then they need to take B12 as a supplement and I’m going to tell you exactly what type of B12 you should get in a minute but I just want to kind of go through the list another really common cause of low B12 is the person’s stomach acid is just not very strong they’re losing the acidity in the stomach and this happens as we age the great majority of people over the age of 60 70 and especially 80 are very low in stomach acid so they’re not getting the benefit of the acid to stimulate this B12 and the B12 just doesn’t get absorbed that well if you are older and you have this numbness or tingling in your hands you should be taking something called betaine hydrochloride it’s a natural supplement you take maybe three four five six of these little tablets before a meal and you’re going to start to acidify the stomach and you’re going to start to absorb B12 and another I have in the list is antacids if you’re taking antacid that could be the reason why you don’t have enough acid in your stomach and that’s going to create a problem so you’re going to have to figure out what to do about that I put a link Down Below on a solution for that and to solve the real reason why you need an antacid in the first place all right taking metformin metformin has one side effect of lactic acidosis and that occurs when someone does not have enough B12 and B1 metformin depletes your B12 and it also depletes vitamin B1 so if you’re on Metformin chances are you need more B12 and that could be the reason why you have this symptom in your hands another common reason for a B12 deficiency is a genetic reason there is a new thing with genetic testing nowadays you can go get your DNA tested and find out what weaknesses you have so you can support those fairly well-known Gene that a lot of people have a problem with is MTHFR okay that’s the name of a gene that has to do with folate and this also relates to B12 and the right kind to make it all work and if you have this problem with this Gene which by the way 30 of the population has then you’re going to be deficient in not just folate but B12 as well because your body is our difficult time absorbing B12 on top of all these other factors okay and that can show up in many different ways in one being numbness or tingling in the fingertips another reason why you might have a deficiency of B12 is just that you can’t absorb it because either you have inflammation in your stomach or your small intestine or large intestine you have irritable bowel syndrome or you have some type of past damage from that that could be the reason why you’re not absorbing B12 and then the last reason would be that you had gastric bypass right which you’re altering some of the small intestine in the stomach to the point where you can’t you don’t have that surface to absorb the B12 anymore and then all of a sudden one day you’re going to put these these weird sensation in your wrist or your hands well it’s coming from a B12 deficiency okay so what is the solution well to take the right form of B12 you may need to go beyond just eating foods high in B12 you might need to need to take it as a supplement so the type of supplement that you want to take to resolve this paresthesia in the in the hands or even the feet would be methylcobolamine okay methylcobolamine not the cyanocobolamine version but the methylcobolamine version if yo