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Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

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Alright, so we're going to talk about deep vein thrombosis and vitamin E, okay?

Now a thrombus is a formation of a clot, okay?

In the vascular system and sometimes you have pain or swelling and sometimes you have

no symptoms until you get a stroke because that clot could break off in the body and

end up in your lung and the brain and create all sorts of problems.

Some of the risk factors, smoking, no activity, you're sitting around, letting your blood

just pool, obesity is a risk factor, birth control pills can also trigger a clot or

even trauma, okay, or even surgery.

But I want to talk about vitamin deficiencies setting you up for this condition right here.

So when you're deficient in vitamin B12 you can get a thrombus and that could even come

from taking a metformin which is a diabetes medication for a long period of time.

You become deficient in B12.

So if you're deficient in B6 or folate it can put you at risk of getting a thrombus and

vitamin E has the power to help prevent and dissolve a blood clot, okay?

It has a couple really amazing properties, anti-quagulant, anti-placking.

So again, it's really good to support the vascular system to lower the risk of heart attacks

and giant of pain is a vitamin E deficiency.

So now the question is what could create a vitamin E deficiency?

Well, a couple things, consuming too much refined flour in the form of bread, pasta,

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