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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 problem okay it was so bad he

really wanted to commit suicide because

it got to the point where he just

couldn’t get rid of the pain and so now

he basically is forced to live on

medication permanently which is terrible

all right number six blurred vision why

because what helps you see is the retina

the retina is neurological tissue that

is in your eye and it goes directly back

into your brain and if that’s affected

you’re not going to be able to see that

well so one symptom would be noticing

that you you know your vision is

worsening and you need glasses for no

reason suspect a potential b12

deficiency all right and the last

symptom would be a fast

pulse rate now why would the heart start

increasing its beats

well that is because

you can’t make red blood cells so that

means you’re not going to have oxygen

and the body has to compensate for a

lack of oxygen by increasing the rate or

speed at which your heart pushes

blood through the body so anyway i just

really want to increase your awareness

on b12

now that you understand b12 i think the

next most important vitamin to

understand would be vitamin b1

and check that out i put it right here