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The insane benefits of vitamin B nobody shares.

Alright, welcome back to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. Today I'm going to share something about vitamin B that nobody is talking about.

There's a good chance that your oral multi-B vitamin is a total waste of money. That's right, a total waste of money.

And there's a hundred percent chance that your vitamin B12 shot is a total waste of money. That's right, a total waste of money.

How can I be so sure about all this? Well, first of all, if you're part of the 50 percent of people who carry one or more of the mutations of the MTHFR gene,

and if you say that out loud, we will bleep you from network television. And as I tell my patients, it's the mother FFR gene. And that's how to remember.

You can take all the B vitamins in the world and you will not convert particularly vitamin B12 and folic acid into their active forms

because you lack enzymes that convert these B vitamins into their active methylated forms.

So you can keep swallowing them, but they're not going to do you any good.

Additionally, surprising number of people need a receptor in the lower part of their intestines called intrinsic factor that's necessary to absorb methyl B12 into your gut.

And if you don't have intrinsic factor, and I'm always amazed how many people don't have intrinsic factor, you can swallow vitamin B12.

You can even swallow the active form of vitamin B12 methyl cabalman, and you still won't have any B12 in your bloodstream.

Now, how do you know if you have one of these mutations? Well, you can get a blood test, you can get a gene test to see if you carry one of these mutations.

But here's an interesting easy way. There's strong evidence that people who carry one or more of these mutations have either a strong personal history or a strong family history.

Of anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar, schizophrenia, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and suicide tendencies.

Now, there are other reasons for these conditions, but when we look at family trees, it's amazing how well this mutation correlates

with those symptoms in my patient. Interestingly, most successful people that I know, and I take care of a large number of successful, monetarily or otherwise successful individuals, all of them carry this mutation, almost 100%.

And that's because many successful people have attention deficit disorder that they recognize, usually fairly early in life, and used it as a powerful tool to focus their attention on something they were interested in and realize how easily they could be distracted from something they shouldn't be interested in.

And harness that power. So if you're a creative individual, if you come from a family of history of anxiety and depression, there's pretty good odds that you carry one or more of these mutations.

Now, what do you do about it? Well, that's the good news. You can get methyl B12 and methyl folate as supplements.

Here's the trick that's so interesting. I mentioned that many people don't have the ability to absorb even the right kind of methyl B12 because they lack intrinsic factor.

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