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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 you have

this genetic problem like I mentioned

you also want to get a product with

methylcobolamine and methylfolate which

is the right kind of folate with B6

that’s the remnant you can get all these

in just one supplement okay you start

taking that and you’re going to know

some great improvements if you are a

diabetic okay or have a pre-diabetic and

you have this problem uh in your hands

or your feet okay you might benefit more

from a fat soluble version of vitamin B1

and that’s called benphotamine and

photamine is wonderful to help this

myelin sheath problem mainly in the feet

but also can help in the hands as well

so anyway I wanted to bring up this

connection that may be helpful

especially if you have the problems I

just talked about to give you more

information about this common genetic

problem that I just mentioned MTHFR I

put that video up right here check it

out