What is Vitamin B6? Deficiencies, Symptoms, and Foods | DrEricBergDC

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so today we’re gonna talk about vitamin

b6 okay

vitamin b6 is a cofactor it’s a helper

nutrient in so many different

chemistry’s of the body I’m just going

to talk about the main ones right here

there are seven different forms of

vitamin b6 the active form of vitamin b6

is called paradox well 5 phosphate you

usually see it on vitamin label as P 5 P

now what does b6 actually do well it’s

involved in making neurotransmitters

like gaba dopamine adrenaline so it

affects your mood so if you’re deficient

you’re gonna have anxiety depression and

you might be Moody you might have this

thing called PMS I mean not you but you

probably know people who do it can

affect your focus your attention as an a

DD in order to make b6 work you also

need vitamin b2 and zinc okay which is a

trace mineral several things that cause

a deficiency of b6 would be diabetes or

blood sugar problems in general like

let’s say you’re pre-diabetic or you

have insulin resistance which majority

of population has liver damage or a

fatty liver could affect the absorption

if you had a history of any colon

problems like some type of inflammatory

conditions that you end up having scar

tissue in your gut or let’s say you have

IBS or Crohn’s that could affect your

absorption if you had gastric bypass

surgery that could affect your

absorption or your taking birth control

pills or your taking steroids like in

cortisone shots things like that that

can affect the absorption but usually

you’re not going to be deficient from

the foods in your diet because it’s in

so many different foods it’s in

chickpeas pork liver tuna salmon other

fish eggs beef and it’s in a lot of

vegetables so chances are your

deficiency could be coming from these

other things right here now if you’re

deficient the classical symptom would be

dermatitis other symptoms anxiety

depression like I said red irritated

eyes neuro

which is a destruction of the myelin

sheath which v6 is involved in you also

have vitamin b12 and b1 as well

impaired glucose tolerance so you’re

going to have blood sugar issues if

you’re deficient in b6 b6 deficiency is

also involved in edema and swelling

especially when you’re pregnant

as well as carpal tunnel syndrome

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