Symptoms of a Vitamin B12 Deficiency

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If you struggle with excess weight and low energy... if you just don't have the vigor to live your life fully ... the problem could be that you're missing something important. I'm not talking only about Vitamin B-12, but the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness. As we began exploring in section 1, a deficiency of Vitamin isn't an isolated problem. Rather, it signals a lack of one or more elements of a great life: the physical, emotional and spiritual "must-haves" that make up TriVita's 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness.

As mentioned in section 1, a B-12 deficiency among the patients in my practice is often a "gateway" condition: it triggers other problems, and people start to spiral downward in their self-care and overall wellness. In this section, we explore how B-12 is connected with Essentials #4 and #5: Eat Nutritiously and Enjoy Activity.

4. Eat Nutritiously. Ideally, we get our Vitamin B-12 from foods like fish and meat, dairy products, fortified cereals and beans. However, several factors can prevent us from absorbing all the B-12 we need, including age, dietary choices and taking certain medicines.
For example, if you habitually eat the wrong foods (say, ones loaded with starch or refined sugar), you could gain excess weight and develop diabetes. Then you have to take diabetes medicine to offset your food choices. And the diabetes medicine can block the absorption of B-12. There's the spiral - unhealthy choices feeding off each other to make us unwell. Incidentally, being obese is no indicator that someone may be getting enough Vitamin B-12. Some vegetarians, for example, eat a lot of honey or coconut, which can make them fat - but still B-12 deficient.
A healthful diet alone may not give you all the B-12 you need, but it will help fuel your body and mind so that you have the energy to live life to the fullest.

5. Exercise. Enjoying physical activity is critical to vibrant health and a great life. But here's how interwoven B-12 is with our well-being: how can you exercise if you don't have the energy? We know that healthy levels of B-12 do so much to give US energy - so we enjoy rejuvenating sleep, drink lots of water and enjoy the benefits of exercise. People with a B-12 deficiency tend not to exercise but not just because they may be low on energy and motivation. It's more a case of nerves being affected. Here's how:

You might have tingling in your legs because the nerves to your legs have insufficient B-12. That tingling could deter you from getting the exercise your mind and body crave. In another scenario, in some people who get chemotherapy for cancer, the absorption of B-12 can be blocked. One of my family members who had cancer was successfully treated with chemotherapy. However, her physician forgot to tell her to take Vitamin B-12, and she ended up with numbness that wouldn't go away; the nerves were too badly hurt. (I recommend that anyone getting chemotherapy ask their specialist about taking B-12 while undergoing treatment.) Again, health spirals downward.

If we actively live the 10 Essentials, we can do so much to truly experience wellness in all aspects of our lives. As the medical spokesman for TriVita's Sublingual B-12, I urge you to consider letting this remarkable vitamin help enrich your journey. And I hope you look for section 3 as we examine the emotional and spiritual connections' that link B-12 with good health and a great life.

10 Essentials for Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Health and Wellness

Physical Health
1. Breathe deeply
2. Drink water
3. Sleep soundly
4. Eat a nutritious diet
5. Be physically active

Emotional Health
6. Give and receive love
7. Forgive, letting go of old grudges
8. Be grateful
9. Accept the things you can not change

Spiritual Health
10. Nurture your spirituality

Source: TriVita VitaJournal, August 2011. Scott Conard, M.D., founded TienaHealth, an organization of medical doctors in primary care practice who emphasize healthy lifestyles to maintain wellness, Dr. Conard is considered a national expert on disease prevention. TienaHealth also conducts clinical trials.

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