The 1st Sign of a Methylcobalamin (B12) Deficiency

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about the first sign of methylcobalamin deficiency.

Methylcobalamin is vitamin B12, and it’s essential for DNA, red blood cells, and your myelin sheath. Vitamin B12 also helps support your spinal column and brain.

If you’re deficient in vitamin B12, you could experience tingling, numbness, or burning sensations.

Other signs of vitamin B12 deficiency can include:

• Chronic pain

• Depression

• Muscle wasting

• Blurry vision

• Tinnitus

• Anemia

• Mouth ulcers

• Sore throat

• Hair loss

You could also experience symptoms if you have too much vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 toxicity will typically occur if you’re taking too much synthetic vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin)—not the natural version (methylcobalamin).

Cyanocobalamin can build up in the body and cause symptoms such as:

• Acne

• Palpitations

• Anxiety

• Red cheeks

• Headaches

• Insomnia

• Akathisia

• Suicidal thoughts

You could be deficient in vitamin B12 long before you start to feel any effects. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t damage being done. One of the first symptoms you would eventually feel is extreme fatigue.

Foods high in vitamin B12 are animal products. There is no vitamin B12 in plants.

Top causes of vitamin B12 deficiency:

• Malabsorption

• Plant-based or vegan diets

• Gastric bypass

• Atrophy of the stomach

• Gastritis

• H. pylori infection

• Ulcers

• Inflammation in the intestines

• Aspirin

• Alcohol

• Junk foods

• Antibiotics

• Antacids or PPIs

• Birth control pills

• Pregnancy

• Lactation

• Smoking

• Polymorphism

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0:00.0	What would the first sign of a methyl-cobolamine deficiency look like?
0:06.0	That's a B-12 deficiency.
0:08.0	You know, it's kind of important, since it controls your DNA, your red blood cells, your myelin sheet that surrounds the nerves,
0:16.8	like kind of like this cord, right? If I were to take off the insulation of this cord and
0:21.7	touch it with another piece of metal it would short circuit and you can
0:24.8	get electrocuted.
0:25.8	So myelin is the surroundings of your nerves to protect them and when that goes you
0:31.6	start getting all sorts of tingling and numbness and
0:34.4	burning and things like that. And B12 does have a lot to do with supporting your
0:39.0	spinal column, your brain, and you know if you're deficient it could end up with a bit of
0:44.3	permanent damage and cause you to be in chronic pain because of the nerve damage as well
0:50.7	as depression and even muscle wasting but But other than that, well, there's a couple
0:54.9	more side effects. Blurry vision, tinnitus, anemia, mouth ulcers, sore throat, and hair loss. On the flip side challenge with this deficiency of
1:06.9	methicobolamine is a toxicity. So in other words you can have symptoms from
1:12.0	having not enough and symptoms from having too much.
1:15.8	I'm going to put this research down below. But as far as toxicity from B12, that's usually going to happen if you're taking the synthetic version, not the methyl-cobolamine, but the cyanol-cobolamine. I mean, cyanol, what is that? That's cyanide. That combines with the
1:35.3	cobalt and it makes this very complex vitamin and that has to be converted into the
1:40.7	methylcobolamine and for various reasons I'm going to talk about it can build up in the to the methyl
1:43.9	methylbolamine and for various reasons I'm going to talk about it can build up in the body
1:45.3	and cause acne, palpitations, anxiety.
1:48.9	Red skin on your face like red cheeks, headaches, insomnia.
1:53.8	And also another condition called Acathesia where the person is so restless that they just
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