Why Your Vitamins Are Not Working

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

You may be wondering, do I need to take vitamins? Your body needs around 180 nutrients, and it’s often difficult to satisfy these requirements, especially for vitamin D, magnesium, zinc, and vitamin B3. You can not always identify nutrient deficiencies in the blood.

Low stomach acid interferes with vitamin and mineral absorption. If you have low stomach acid, you might also experience problems breaking down food with vitamin B12. Indigestion, heartburn, and SIBO are common symptoms of low stomach acid.

Synthetic vitamins aren't the same as natural ones. Do not take synthetic vitamin B12 or B9! Some nutrients need other nutrients to function properly, so taking them in isolated forms rather than a complex can cause problems.

Many vitamins contain fillers like maltodextrin that compete for nutrients such as vitamin C. Vitamin B1 is essential for breaking down sugar and carbs, so when you consume maltodextrin, it’s easy to become deficient.

Poor diet could be a reason why vitamins aren’t working for you. If you’re diabetic, prediabetic, or have insulin resistance, vitamin absorption will be greatly inhibited. Fix this by going on a low-carb diet.

Poor-quality supplements often contain calcium carbonate, which is limestone! Multivitamins with calcium and magnesium are poorly absorbed because these two minerals compete for absorption.

Vitamin effectiveness is greatly influenced by dosage. The RDA for vitamin D3 is only 600 IU, but you need around 10,000 IU daily. If you have a chronic illness, you need therapeutic doses of vitamins, not small amounts.

Always pay attention to the milligram dosage when choosing a supplement! Taking too little of a supplement significantly reduces vitamin absorption and effectiveness.

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0:00.0	So today we're going to talk about all the reasons why vitamins won't work. The first thing to
0:04.0	talk about is why do we need vitamins? Can't we get all of our vitamins from food? Many times you're not
0:08.8	going to be able to satisfy that just by eating certain foods, especially vitamin D, magnesium, zinc,
0:15.4	and even vitamin B3, which is called niacin. And with all that chemistry going on, your body needs roughly about
0:22.3	180 nutrients to allow that biochemistry to work. And it's actually very difficult to determine
0:28.9	if someone's deficient in a nutrient by just checking the blood. Because a lot of these nutrients
0:33.9	are deep in yourselves. A big reason why vitamins might not work in your body is that
0:39.3	you might not have enough acid in your stomach. You can't absorb certain things like minerals.
0:45.5	You're going to have a hard time breaking down things with B12 because B12 is usually in meat and that's
0:51.8	locked up with protein. And if there's not enough acid to break down the
0:54.8	protein, you don't get absorption of B12. One big clue to know that you don't have enough
1:00.2	stomach acid is if you have indigestion, heartburn, too much bacteria in your small intestine.
1:06.3	The problem with synthetics is they don't get absorbed like natural ones. The next point I want to
1:11.1	bring up is when you take a vitamin or a mineral as an isolated nutrient, this is very unnatural.
1:18.4	It's going to create a problem because in nature, you never see an isolated nutrient. If you take
1:23.1	too much vitamin D, especially in higher amounts, you'll end up with a magnesium deficiency. It's
1:29.4	important to know that a lot of these nutrients come in more of a kind of a complex with other nutrients.
1:36.0	The other topic I want to talk about is the form of nutrition. For example, folic acid. You don't
1:41.1	want to take the synthetic version. Anytime you take vitamin B9, you want to take
1:45.4	that in the active form, the folate. The same thing that goes with vitamin B12. You don't want to take
1:51.8	the synthetic version called cyanocobolamine. Instead, you want to take methylcobulamine. Why? Because
1:59.5	you want to get results. You want something to work
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