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🗓️ 19 November 2023
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Today, I want to cover the symptoms of a vitamin B6 deficiency you may have never heard of before.
“They” say it’s rare to become deficient in vitamin B6. However, it’s possible to have a subclinical B6 deficiency that still affects your well-being, even if it’s not a full-blown vitamin B6 deficiency.
Vitamin B6 is important to support a healthy body. Typically, there are no side effects of taking vitamin B6 if you take less than 200 mg daily.
If you take too much vitamin B6, you could experience toxicity effects. However, you would have to consume over 1000 mg of vitamin B6 per day to cause any issues.
Foods rich in vitamin B6 are:
• Beef
• Pork
• Fish
• Chicken
It’s pretty well-known that if you have low vitamin B6, you may experience symptoms, including:
• Rashes around the nose
• Cracks or rashes around the mouth
• Pink eye
• Anemia
• Neurological problems
• Numbness in the hands and feet
• Depression
Surprising symptoms of a vitamin B6 deficiency:
1. Inflammation (especially gut inflammation)
2. Inability to control polyunsaturated fatty acids
3. Deficiencies in neurotransmitters
4. Inability to convert ALA to DHA
5. Poor selenium function
6. Inability to convert tryptophan to niacin
7. Alopecia
8. Seizures
9. High homocysteine levels
10. Increased risk of autism
11. Increased risk of gut pathogens
Causes of vitamin B6 deficiency:
• Processed foods
• Diuretics
• Blood pressure medications
• Antibiotics
• Birth control pills
• Alcohol
• Pregnancy or lactation
• Smoking
• Herbicides
• Ginkgo biloba
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0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about Vitamin B6 deficiency symptoms that you've never heard before. |
0:06.5 | Now, the data I'm going to share with you is out of this book right here, one of my favorite books, |
0:11.1 | laboratory evaluations for integrative and functional medicine. |
0:16.2 | It's amazing because it covers every aspect of nutrition in depth. |
0:22.1 | So I've tore this book up many times so it's fantastic. Now what's |
0:27.2 | interesting about B6 is that if you look this up they will tell you it's very |
0:31.6 | rare to have a deficiency and they never talk about this idea of |
0:34.4 | subclinical deficiencies of nutrients. Instead they focus on these major deficiency symptoms |
0:40.0 | but this is going to be interesting topic. Let me just kind of go through it. |
0:43.0 | Most people might know that if you're deficient in B6, |
0:46.0 | you'll typically have rashes around your nose. You might have cracks or rashes around your mouth. |
0:52.0 | You might even get pink eye as a symptom. You can get |
0:55.9 | theemia as well as neurological problems which involves numbness in the bottom of |
1:02.0 | your hands and your feet, |
1:03.2 | which typically come from a B1 deficiency, but also from a B6 deficiency. |
1:07.6 | Some people might know that you can get depressed if you're deficient in B6. |
1:11.8 | But today I want to talk about all the other problems |
1:13.6 | that you can end up with if you're low in B6, but first let me just kind of |
1:17.2 | give you some interesting information about B6. Vitamin B6 is involved in over 140 different enzyme pathways. |
1:27.0 | So you can imagine how broadly this vitamin extends into our bodily functions. |
1:31.0 | And yes, there are toxicity symptoms, |
1:34.4 | but typically B6 is a water-cible vitamin. |
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