b12, vitamins & supplements

Vitamin & Mineral Deficiency

Posted on by Tamie Bilazzo

B12 deficiency has been severely underplayed in health care and largely ignored in favor of more recognized and more expensive-to-treat diagnoses. This has resulted in both substandard care and malpractice, costing millions of individuals their health and wasting billions of health care dollars. The B12 deficiency epidemic is frustrating because well-educated health care providers overlook such an easily diagnosed and inexpensively treated condition.

Untreated B12 Deficiency Ailments

  • balance problems (increase the risk of falls)
  • paresthesias
  • weakness
  • dizziness
  • postural hypotension
  • visual disturbances
  • chronic anemia
  • hypercellular and dysplastic bone marrow (can be mistaken for signs of acute leukemia)
  • itchy, tingling tongue
  • while spots in the skin
  • sharp stabbing tingling pain in the palm of hand(s)
  • sores at the corners of the mouth, sometimes extending along the edge of the lip
  • nerve shock in the side of the body
  • shortness of breath, but w/o chest pain
  • eye twitch, usually in one eye or the other
  • facial pain, usually on only one side of the fact at a time
  • tingling along the back of one or both thighs, starting at the hips and shooting downward
  • memory loss and / or disorientation
  • migraine headaches and visual migraine comes with zigzag streaks through the vision
  • general feeling of fatigue

Supplements

There are three B12 supplements you will find at stores and online: Cyanocobalamin, Hydroxocobalamin, and Methylcobalamin.

Cyanocobalamin requires a higher dosage for the same effctiveness. In Japan and the UK, Cyanocobalamin has been removed from the market.

Try to get Methylcobalamin sublingual lozenge. Here are a few I recommend:

  • Solgar sublingual Methylcobalamin 5000mcg (60)
  • B-12 Methlobalamin (1oz) Spray by Pure Vegan
  • B-12 Methlobalamin (1 oz) Spray by Aerobic Life Pure Advantage
  • Natural Factors B12 Methylcobalamin 5000 mcg (60)
  • Jarrow Formulas Methyl B-12 (60)
  • Biotics Research B12-2000 with 800 mcg Folate (folic acid) and 2mg of B6 (Pyridoxal-5-phosphate) – good for fertility patients
Tamie Bilazzo