Today I'm going to talk about a version of vitamin B12 that I would recommend avoiding.

It's called cyanocobolamine. Now, cobalamine is a molecule with cobalt. It's kind of a

foundational structure of B12, and then there's different versions of B12.

Cyanocobolamine is this synthetic version. It's very, very cheap. It's in pretty much all the

fortified grains, like cereals, snack bars. It's in most one-a-day synthetic vitamins. If I

not mistaken, it's also fortified in infant formulas and things like that. And it's definitely

in energy drinks as well. And sometimes it has very high doses. Sometimes between 8,000 to 14,000

percent are requirements. And the problem that I don't like about it is the cyanide part of it.

There's a cyanide molecule attached to this cobalamine that a lot of times people will brush off

as being, well, it's insignificant. It's a small amount. Our liver can detoxify it fine.

But what about if someone's doing these energy drinks, taking vitamins, doing a lot of refined

grains, getting massive, massive amounts of this cyanocobolamine. Cyanide shuts down the oxygen

to your mitochondria. So it destroys the motor of the mitochondria. In fact, this is interesting.

When you get cyanide poisoning or even carbon monoxide poisoning and you go to the emergency room,

they have to give you a remedy to counter that. And that happens to be something I've been talking

about in some recent videos called methylene blue. Methylene blue is the antidote to cyanide because

it bypasses the mitochondrial damage and it gives mitochondria the oxygen it needs. And a lot of the

B12 injections, they're using this synthetic version as well. And so there are some side effects,

like vomiting, stomach problems, a potassium deficiency, which can lead to arrhythmias,

headache, fever, dizziness, etc. But personally, I think the biggest problem with this cyanocobolamine

is the cyanide part. You just don't need a lot of cyanide in the body, but it is true that our

liver does have the ability to detoxify small amounts of cyanide. But what I'm talking about is

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