Now I've done a lot of videos on the B vitamins, but I don't think I've ever done a video

on a Nositol, which is vitamin B8.

Now they no longer classify a Nositol as a B vitamin because they found out your body

can make it, however, it is a vitamin and it's actually quite important.

So your body makes a Nositol.

Your kidneys make a Nositol, other parts of your body make a Nositol, it's most abundant

in your brain and in practice I would use it to help curb cravings to carbs.

It's actually a sugar alcohol and it's made from glucose and it greatly helps insulin

resistance in blood sugars.

And you can even suck on it and taste sweet, which is interesting.

And large doses like 2,000 milligrams twice a day, if you add a little folate to it,

you can see some serious improvements with ADD, OCD, overwhelm, depression, problems

with binge eating.

And Nositol is intimately involved with certain communication pathways, involving neurotransmitters

and hormones.

It acts as a natural antidepressant and it also has anti-anxiety effects.

Its effects are similar to metformin, if you're familiar with metformin, that is a drug

that they use for diabetes type 2.

And it makes the receptor for insulin more receptive to insulin, so it helps to regulate

blood sugars.

And they also use metformin for PCOS.

Because PCOS is a situation where you have insulin resistance, high insulin, and then

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