Peripheral neuropathy, which is characterized by sharp pain or numbing and tingling, affects people of all ages. But the cure isn’t some outlandish and expensive pharmaceutical medicine – it’s a vitamin found easily in fish or supplements. Patients suffering from a loss of muscular control, painful tingling, numbness and loss of sensation in their limbs don’t have to undergo invasive surgeries or take debilitating meds – they may be able to simply take high doses of Vitamin B12. This vitamin benefits many other diseases as well.
Our bodies need 13 different B vitamins, and B12 can be especially lacking. Most of us are already familiar with B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B6, and folic acid. But the B complex also includes vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid), B12, biotin, PABA, choline, and inositol. These water-soluble vitamins are indispensable for good health.
What’s more, the high sugar diet that many Americans partake of also destroys Vitamin B12 in the intestinal tract.
As Natural Society previously reported, one UK doctor is a big fan of B12 – so much so that he has treated all kinds of illnesses with B12 shots. He fully documented his successes, but UK health officials were wary because he was giving inexpensive B12 injections to patients whose blood serum B12 levels were above 150, which the UK medical establishment considers normal.
Most of us don’t get enough B12 in our diets, though you can find it primarily in animal sources like seafood, shellfish, dairy, and meat. It also isn’t given its due credit in the medical establishment, as many vitamins and minerals don’t since they cannot be patented and sold as billion dollar drugs. But even a geneticist recently uncovered the ability of B12 to treat the rare disease that causes loss of muscle control in a toddler.
Read: Veganism and B12 Deficiency – One Danger of Avoiding Meat
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP Director, Yale University Prevention Research Center Director says that B12 might be one of the most important vitamins that you aren’t paying any attention to. One of the most obviously vital functions of the vitamins, as he points out, is its ability to promote the normal replication of DNA. Without B12, we cannot regenerate normal, healthy cells.
This means that even if you don’t have a full-blown disease like peripheral neuropathy, you will likely feel old before your time, excessively tired, anemic, dizzy, and irritable. You may also more frequently suffer from dementia as you age.
If you are vegan or vegetarian, it can be difficult to get enough B12. Try the following tips:
- Eat more meat, dairy, and seafood.
- Take one B12 supplement daily providing at least 10 micrograms
- Eat fortified foods two or three times a day to get at least three micrograms (mcg or µg) of B12 a day.
If you’ve been feeling sluggish, check that you are getting enough B12, and if not, supplement. Your renewed health will be testament to the miracle of this vitamin.
B- vitamins (complex) must always be taken all together to avoid imbalance, correct????
I doubt any imbalance will cause problems as most of the B vitamins are in vegetables, milk and eggs – and plentiful at that. They are also water soluble – so it would be hard to overdose if you get them from natural sources. B12 is best taken in pill form or injected – especially injected if you are older. Nothing wrong with a little red meat though. Avoid daily uese of multi-vitamins that have Vitamin A or E as they can be over-stored in the liver.
If you’re not getting enough B vitamins from your diet, which are commonly
found together in foods (and some B’s are made in the large intestine), taking a
B complex might be beneficial. When taken in excess the B’s are excreted and not
stored in the body.
I always assumed that B-complex vitamins (all 8: B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9,
B12) must always be taken in conjunction with all the other B vitamins to
prevent side effects and deficiencies.
Single B vitamin supplementation is not generally recommended because the
functions of the B vitamins are so interrelated. Maybe it would vary from one
person to another all depending on their level of stress, alcohol consumption,
pharm drugs, eating processed foods, and the list goes
on.
For the many, many people who suffer from all sorts of chronic digestive disorders these days (thanks to antibiotics and genetically altered wheat and other inflammatory foods) like IBS and leaky gut, as well as IBD and other chronic ailments, vitamin deficiencies are numerous–thus, besides a good B-complex vitamin, a sublingual B-12 is needed in addition. It cured me of sudden onset peripheral neuropathy, but was my own healing. My blood test showed that I was ‘not deficient’, though I knew that wasn’t the case. AS the above article states, the numbers that are deemed as acceptable are not always.
Painful tingling that took place many times a day was the main sign experienced by myself about a year ago. Was highly vitamin 12 deficient. Needless to say other issues arose as well. Luckily we were able to get ahead of this because it felt like torture. Its almost like electricity is being wired into your veins as shockwaves and such. Wouldn’t wish it on anybody.
Thanks for the article!
As a small adjunct, a documentary that helped me greatly in finding out much we were missing is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvEizypoyO0
The way we see it, you either can be reactive to health, or proactive. We need to be as proactive as possible because diseases/health issues are more rampant than ever due to an onslaught of issues we are facing from gmos, aspartame, fluoride, fukushima radiation, etc etc etc.
We can’t afford to be ignorant anymore. Too many issues that affect us and our kin. We can either pay for our health now, via eating healthy organic fresh foods, or we can pay for it later via hospital bills.
The choice is yours!
I have read that only *sublingual* vitamin B-12 lozengers (sp?) work like B-12 shots in fighting the above deficiency syndromes.
ROFL
If you are vegan or vegetarian, it can be difficult to get enough B12. Try the following tips:
Eat more meat