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let’s talk about the three common

nutritional deficiencies

in sciatica as well as carpal tunnel

syndrome now satica can really be a pain

in the butt literally you have this pain

that goes right on the back of the leg

and it can really affect someone if

they’re sitting or driving and carpal

tunnel syndrome can be a big issue and

sometimes people go for surgery when in

fact they probably didn’t need to do

that so today I’m going to discuss three

common nutritional deficiencies okay and

they involve the B vitamins B1 b6 and

b12 so we’re going to discuss

um a little bit on how to differentiate

if your problem is more of a B6

deficiency or a B12 deficiency or a B1

but these three vitamins are intimately

involved in the nervous system and

especially sciatic nerve and carpal

tunnel syndrome which is pain or

numbness in your wrist so I want to just

Dive Right In let’s first start with

vitamin B6 it’s called pyridoxine now

there’s different forms of B6 pyridoxine

is the inactive form it has to convert

to another form to be active the active

form is called paradoxyl 5 phosphate or

p5p this happens in the liver but you

have to realize how important B6 is in a

lot of problems including the nervous

system because it is involved in over a

160 different enzymes okay that’s our

enzyme Pathways so you can have all

sorts of problems but today we’re going

to focus more on the nerve problems that

can occur now B6 helps to make myelin

sheath okay that’s one thing it does

myelin sheath is the coating around the

nerve and when you lose that coding the

nerve stops working you start having

symptoms like burning numbness tingling

pain because that nerve keeps everything

going keeps the nerves flowing and so

the protein that builds myelin which is

a type of fat insulation is dependent on

B6 as well as B6 helps produce

neurotransmitters

those nerve Communications that travel

through the nervous system which is a

little different than hormones hormones

travel through the blood as far as B6 is

concerned the two big ones are serotonin

and dopamine B6 is especially important

in protecting the nerve Integrity

specifically the sensory nerves okay

more than the motor nerves so there’s

two types of nerves one that controls

the muscle movement and there’s also the

sensory nerve that has everything to do

with pain and different Sensations like

it can produce burning pain or numbness

or which is a lack of pain anything that

you can feel is more of a sensory nerve

and one big one is sciatica and another

one is carpal tunnel syndrome so I

remember in practice I had a machine

that measured how fast the sensory

nerves traveled through your arms it’s

called conduction nerve velocity testing

and we would check these sensory nerves

and unfortunately back then I had no

clue about B6 and other vitamin and how

they can greatly affect the nerves so B6

helps increase the conduction of the

nerves the velocity of nerves how fast

the nerves transmit nerve signals B6 is

also involved in the metabolism of the

nervous system as well and B6 can also

affect the nerves of the eyes and if

you’re deficient you can get myopathy

which is nearsightedness which is

difficulty in seeing far away B6

deficiencies are also involved in

seizures okay so if you know anyone who

has seizures you should definitely

recommend B6 and or have them watch this

video now there’s a paradox with B6 okay

that I’m going to talk about it’s a

mystery because in some cases when

people start taking large quantities of

vitamin B6 they end up expressing

symptoms of ab6 deficiency

so that’s a little bit of an odd thing

but I’m going to explain exactly why

that occurs apparently these two forms

of the vitamin the inactive and the

active can compete with each other

so let’s say for example you start

taking a lot of of the precursor to B6

which is the paradoxine you could end up

blocking the active form okay creating a

deficiency of B6 creating sensory nerve

problems now just think about this the

rdas the requirements

for B6

are very small it’s like 1.4 to 2.1

milligrams okay well if you ever buy

vitamin B6 in a tablet form

it comes in like 50 milligrams or 100

milligrams or sometimes 250 milligrams

and this could be like 2 000 times more

than the rdas and most the time people

don’t know the difference between these

two types of B6 and they end up taking a

lot of the inactive form and then they

end up with the B6 toxicity they

actually start experiencing neurological

problems and they did not connect the

dots so straight off the bat if you have

a B6 deficiency I’m going to recommend

taking the active form not the inactive

form of B6 now the other thing you

should know is that in about 36 percent

of all supplements sold you’ll see B6 as

the inactive version so you could be

unknowingly getting a lot of this B6 and

actually creating B6 deficiencies

without your knowledge so how does one

become deficient in B6 well

by taking the wrong form of B6 in large

amounts lets you have some inflammation

in your gut or some type of problem with

Celiac or Crohn’s that could be a

problem or maybe you had your

gallbladder up as we age it becomes more

difficult to absorb B6 certain

medications uh block vitamin B6 alcohol

will do it birth control pills will

cause a deficiency even your genetics

there are genetic variations that can be

picked up on a gene test that can cause

a weakness within your system in

converting the inactive to the active as

well as just the absorption of B6 so in

that case you would want to take larger

amounts of the active form of B6 to

correct this problem so you may not be

able to get B6 from just your diet in

general depending on what you eat

because foods that are very high in B6

are usually animal protein foods fish

Meats things like that and of course if

you were a vegan or vegetarian you’re

more susceptible to becoming B6

deficient also the form of B6 in plants

is not as bioavailable now if you’re a

smoker if you’re a diabetic you could be

deficient in B6 if you drink a lot of

coffee let’s say you drink over four

cups of coffee a day you can be

deficient in B6 the next most important

vitamin involved with nerve problems is

B12 I’ve done lots of videos on this

topic it’s very very Insidious because

it can sneak up on you and by the time

you know you have a B12 deficiency

potentially it could be too late because

it can create some serious damage but

when you think about B12 you want to

think about myelin okay myelin sheath

that’s that coding I just mentioned that

surrounds the nerve and allows the nerve

impulses to travel without B12 you can’t

make myelin so B12 has everything to do

with nerve regeneration with myelin

production and with nerve growth factors

okay so B12 is very very important and I

would not recommend taking the synthetic

version called

cyanocobolamine I would recommend taking

the

methylcobolamine which is the natural

form

now virtually the same reasons why you

are deficient in B6 could be the same

reasons why you’re deficient in B12 like

drinking too much alcohol being a

diabetic having malabsorption birth

control pills definitely genetics which

is very very common but there’s some

other things as well like for example

not having enough stomach acid how would

you know if you don’t have enough

stomach acid well you get acid reflux

you’d get GERD you may have gastritis

but I think the two main reasons why

people are deficient in B12 is either

they don’t eat animal products they

don’t eat red meat they don’t have liver

they mainly do plant based foods or

grains

and the other reason is genetics I’ve

been diving into DNA recently and and

boy B12 deficiency is a common problem

with so many people and it’s such a

simple problem to solve if you

understand that methylcobalamine is the

form that you want to take but another

B12 deficiency is when someone takes a

lot of folic acid that can create a

hidden B12 deficiency I did a whole

video on that and then we have B1

I’ve done videos on this too a B1

deficiency usually shows up as

peripheral neuropathy and it’s usually

involved with diabetes or pre-diabetes

or someone who has really bad insulin

resistance problems because

B1 is all about helping you metabolize

carbohydrates and sugar so the more

carbs or more sugar you eat

the more B1 you’re going to need to

metabolize that and so that person

usually ends up with a B1 deficiency and

they start having neurological problems

in the bottom of the feet but they also

can have them in the hands they can also

have these problems in other syndromes

like sciatica so that would be a little

bit of a differentiating factor do you

have a history of eating a lot of carbs

do you have pre-diabetes then definitely

include B1 but other things can create a

B1 deficiency too like too much coffee

too much tea but B1 is involved with

supplying blood flow to the nervous

system and without that B1 you basically

starve off the nervous system the blood

supply and oxygen that it needs and you

can have all sorts of issues the type of

B1 that I would recommend would be

benfotamine which is a fat soluble

version of B1 and that will penetrate

the nerves about 25 percent stronger and

it’s great for helping with the myelin

sheath B1 also is a powerful antioxidant

and it can counter the complications

from diabetes not just in the nerves

that go to your muscles but the nerves

that go to your eyes and also other

tissues in the heart in the kidney so

anyway I wanted to bring up your

awareness on three really important

vitamins involved in sciatica pain that

can greatly help you if you start taking

them you can take all three or just

narrow down the one that indicates more

to you but this information is something

that I don’t have in some other videos

so I wanted to include it but there are

other causes of sciatic pain as well and

one is that you lost the normal curve of

the lower back and if you have not seen

that video okay with a simple solution I

put it up right here check it out