The 3 Vitamin Deficiencies in Sciatica and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m going to share three common nutritional deficiencies related to sciatica and carpal tunnel syndrome and ways to tell which one might be affecting you most.

Vitamins B1, B6, and B12 are intimately involved in the nervous system and may be behind these painful conditions.

1. Vitamin B6 benefits

• Helps build the myelin sheath

• Helps produce neurotransmitters

• Helps protect sensory nerve integrity

• Helps increase nerve conduction and velocity

• Is involved in the metabolism of the nervous system

Vitamin B6 deficiency causes:

• Taking the wrong form of vitamin B6 in large amounts

• Gut inflammation

• Celiac disease

• Crohn’s disease

• Age

• Certain medications

• Alcohol

• Birth control pills

• Certain genetic variations

• Smoking

• Diabetes

• Excess coffee consumption

* It’s important to take the active form of vitamin B6, pyridoxal-5-phosphate (P5P).

2. Vitamin B12 benefits:

• Helps support nerve regeneration

• Helps support myelin production

• Helps support nerve growth factors

Vitamin B12 deficiency causes:

• Certain genetic factors

• Lack of animal products in the diet

• Low stomach acid

• Excess consumption of folic acid

• Alcohol

• Diabetes

• Malabsorption

• Birth control pills

* It’s important to take the natural form of vitamin B12, methylcobalamin.

3. Vitamin B1 (thiamine) benefits:

• Helps support blood flow to the nerves

• Helps counter the complications of diabetes

Vitamin B1 deficiency causes:

• Diabetes, prediabetes, and insulin resistance

• Excess coffee consumption

• Excess tea consumption

* It’s important to take the fat-soluble version of vitamin B1, benfotiamine.

DATA:

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the three common nutritional deficiencies in sciatica, as well as carpal tunnel
0:07.7	syndrome. Now, sciatica can really be a pain in the butt, literally. You have this pain that goes
0:13.0	right on the back of the leg and it can really affect someone if they're sitting or driving.
0:17.9	And carpal tunnel syndrome can be a big issue and sometimes people go for surgery when, in fact,
0:25.1	they probably didn't need to do that. So today, I'm going to discuss three common nutritional
0:30.3	deficiencies, okay? And they involve the B vitamins, B1, B6, and B12. So we're going to discuss
0:38.8	a little bit on how to differentiate if your problem is more of a B6 deficiency or a B12 deficiency
0:44.7	or a B1. But these three vitamins are intimately involved in the nervous system and especially
0:50.0	sadoc nerve and carpal tunnel syndrome, which is pain or numbness in your wrist. So I want to
0:57.2	just dive right in. Let's first start with vitamin B6. It's called pyrodoxine. Now, there's different
1:04.0	forms of B6. Pyrodoxine is the inactive form. It has to convert to another form to be active.
1:11.1	The active form is called pyrodoxyl5 phosphate or P5P. This happens in the liver. But you have to
1:18.2	realize how important B6 is in a lot of problems including the nervous system because it is involved
1:25.4	in over a 160 different enzymes, okay? Those are enzyme pathways. So you can have all sorts of
1:32.0	problems, but today we're going to focus more on the nerve problems that can occur. Now, B6
1:38.2	helps to make myelin sheath, okay? That's one thing it does. Myelin sheath is the coating around
1:44.4	the nerve. And when you lose that coating, the nerve stops working. You start having
1:50.1	symptoms like burning, numbness, tingling, pain because that nerve keeps everything going,
1:55.4	keeps the nerves flowing. And so the protein that builds myelin, which is a type of fat
2:01.2	insulation, is dependent on B6 as well as B6 helps produce neurotransmitters. Those nerve
2:10.8	communications that travel through the nervous system, which is a little different than hormones,
2:15.0	hormones travel through the blood. As far as B6 is concerned, the two big ones are serotonin
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