hey wellness warrior a b12 deficiency it'll change your mood it'll crash your energy
levels and it'll even disrupt your brain and nervous system does this sound familiar well
you may be suffering from the common signs of a b12 deficiency that most doctors miss
b12 is an essential nutrient that our body needs but is unable to produce this means that we have
to rely on outside sources in order to get it we can get it from food or even supplementation
now thanks to our stressed out lifestyles and of course all that processed food out there
many people are b12 deficient you may even be b12 deficient and not even know it so why do you need
b12 b12 plays many critical roles in the body it's important for healthy functioning nerves
it's required for the production of red blood cells and also critical for healthy dna now
clinically i see a reduction in red blood cells in people's lab work all the time and we take
this seriously because you don't want to deal with the grave symptoms that this causes if
it doesn't get fixed and what's my action plan for this well you guessed it b12 so how in the
world would you become deficient in b12 well it's different for everybody for some people they lack
the ability to break it down from their food other people lack a protein that's made in the
stomach and it's called intrinsic factor which helps you break down b12 so that you can utilize
it so if you don't have this intrinsic factor well you'll certainly have a b12 deficiency
but there's other reasons as well things like gut inflammation or according to the research
even gastrointestinal conditions so if you're thinking like ulcerative colitis ibs crohn's
disease all these issues that people suffer from today that's a huge way to have a b12 deficiency
a ph imbalance in the gut is another way and typically if you have a lot of burping after meals
or you develop a lot of gas in your stomach that's a good way to know if you have a ph imbalance also
if you're taking medications if you're following a vegetarian diet because it lacks meat which has
a lot of b12 in it or if you are just dealing with chronic and persistent stress or if you're someone
who is elderly now i'll share with you three quick fun facts about b12 the first one is that it's
also known as cobalamin so if you're ever reading a label and you see cobalamin that means b12 and i
don't know why they have to have so many different names for this stuff can we just keep it easy and
simple now the second quick fun fact is that it's water soluble this means that it'll dissolve in
water but it also means that it's hard to take too much b12 because whatever excess your body doesn't
need it just excretes it so it's no big deal now the third quick fun fact is that your body stores
a substantial amount of b12 in the liver your liver will hold up to three years or more worth
of b12 so you don't run out quickly now that is pretty cool and it shows how smart our body is
smash that thumbs up button if you think your body is intelligent now with all that said
despite being able to store b12 for so long a deficiency is still common a friend of mine was
having all the different signs of a b12 deficiency so i recommended for him to go and get a shot of
b12 he went and got it and he proclaimed that it had changed his life so you too may be dealing
with some of these subtle side effects of a b12 deficiency that we're going to cover
the first major symptom is weakness and fatigue now the reason for this symptom is because b12 is
responsible for the production of red blood cells and red blood cells are responsible for carrying
oxygen throughout the body so you could imagine if we don't have enough b12 to produce the red
blood cells then a lack of red blood cells means a lack of oxygen for the entire body a patient
of mine described this symptom as it felt like he was walking through water all day long every day
depleted red blood cells are associated with this next common symptom of a b12 deficiency that's
breathlessness and dizziness sometimes you may feel that you just can't catch your breath despite
doing no physical activity and then this leads to dizziness well this lack of oxygen in the body all
circles back to a b12 deficiency a perfect example was a patient of mine and we'll call him larry now
larry was out on his lawnmower and we'll actually call him lawnmower larry so that we can remember
this story and one of the things he noticed is when he was out mowing his lawn multiple times
he would find that his heart would start racing now a racing heart is the third symptom of a b12
deficiency but that wasn't all that would happen his heart would start racing he would notice
breathlessness and then after that would come the dizziness he thought he was having a panic attack
but it had nothing to do with a panic attack it had everything to do with a b12 deficiency let me
know in the comments below have you ever had any of these symptoms that are so common in today's
society now the fourth sign of a b12 deficiency is very frustrating because it impacts your mood
now nobody wants to deal with depression and then nobody wants to be around you if you're grumpy
as we mentioned earlier a b12 deficiency will have an impact on your nervous system and that means
your brain and according to the research there's some other symptoms that are associated with
this problem it's irritability depression anxiety forgetfulness and a poor memory are all associated
with a b12 deficiency the next very common sign of a b12 deficiency is visual disturbances and
whoa nobody likes that i've actually dealt with this personally i told my wife one time
some days i wake up and i can see really good and other times my vision is horrible it's all blurry
i can't see anything i feel like well it turns out this was the same time i was dealing with some gut
issues and as we learned earlier gut issues can cause a b12 deficiency and lo and behold i had one
because a b12 deficiency will actually attack the optic nerve but the good news is as you become
sufficient and get plenty of b12 back into your system the damage will repair itself now number
six on our list of signs of b12 deficiency is a swollen tongue now this happens in rare cases in
more extreme cases as well but do know that it exists and number seven on our list of a sign
of a b12 deficiency is the feeling of pins and needles in your hands and feet now that all sounds
terrible so what do we do about it the first thing that we can do is we can look to some vitamin b12
rich foods these vitamin b12 rich foods include red meat and remember this is why many vegetarians
are lacking in b12 also fish poultry eggs and also dairy now we want to make sure that when
consuming any of these different animal products we're using grass-fed ones pasture-raised and also
when it comes to fish we want to get wild caught fish now this is where things get really tricky
despite eating all these b12 rich foods you still can have a vitamin b12 deficiency
and this is where supplementing with b vitamins comes in really handy now this
is really important to know b vitamins work best when you take them in conjunction with one another
so what this means is that it's better to take a b complex with a b12 in it versus just taking
a b12 alone i'll put a link in the description to the one that i personally use and if you're still
not sure if you have a b12 deficiency the best and most sure way to know is to do a blood test
you can do a blood test that is looking at your b12 levels and what i recommend is that when you
get a test for this you also check your folate levels because if you have a depleted amount of
folate in the body it can mask a b12 deficiency as always it's been an absolute pleasure on educating
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