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There is a close correlation between multiple
sclerosis and vitamin B12 even doctors underestimate.
When I ask doctors whether he ever checked vitamin B12 in his patients, they
answer no. There would be no need they say.
Until now, I met only one doctor who does at all check
this vitamin
and additional parameters with MS patients.
I discovered that the majority has a lack of vitamin B12 i.e. they are
below the minimum level.
Vitamin B12 has a strong influence on your body and your
wellbeing in general and on your nervous system especially. Its importance is
greater than of
many other vitamins. Nevertheless, it gets little attention.
Why you should check your B12 level
Multiple sclerosis, disturbance of
memory, and cognitive perception disorder, these are typical symptoms with vitamin B12 deficiency.
Who ignores
the initial symptoms of a lack of B12 increases the risk of getting MS like
symptoms often without having this disease at all.
In case of
multiple sclerosis vitamin B12 should always be checked.
I do this at the very beginning of each treatment.
Why physicians never think of vitamin B12 in multiple sclerosis is a
brainteaser to me.
If you are B12 deficient, supplementation will give you tangible improvement.
Scientists say that
Alzheimer's for example is a hypovitaminosis and believe that 50 % of all cases
are caused by a lack of vitamin B12. Others suppose a share of even 75 %.
The negative consequences of B12 deficiency are clear-cut.
Multiple
sclerosis vitamin B12 supply
Two
preconditions have to be fulfilled to supply your body with enough vitamin B12.
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You have to eat sufficient food containing vitamin B12.
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Your small intestine must
be able to assimilate it.
If the latter is not given, you can eat as much B12
containing food as you want, it won't be absorbed and a deficiency would remain
unchanged and get worse.
We will talk about this in detail on the page of
vitamin B12 malabsorption.
Vitamin B12 sources
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Vitamin B12 is produced by microorganisms. They live on plants, in earth
and in water.
Animals feeding grass and other plants as well as fish
swimming in natural water, all take these microbes in and are thus supplied
with vitamin B12.
If you eat animal products, i.e. meat, fish, eggs and milk products,
you take vitamin B12 in.
We will discuss this in detail at B12 supplementation.
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Multiple sclerosis and vitamin B12 functions
Vitamin B12
is…
The myelin
decays, along with axial fiber.
The myelin damage is a vitamin B12 deficiency problem as the destruction occurs
even then if adequate folate (the natural form of folic acid) and methionine (an
amino acid) is present.
In case of B12 deficiency certain enzymatic processes are disturbed or don't
function at all. This results in elevated levels of methylmalonic acid (MMA),
which is a known myelin destabilizer.
Too high MMA will prevent normal fatty acid synthesis.
The second possibility is
that MMA will be incorporated directly into fatty acid itself. If this "abnormal
fatty acid" is incorporated into myelin, the resulting myelin will be too
fragile, and demyelination will occur.
Vitamin B12 is also...
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involved
in hematosis (generation of red blood cells)
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required
in the detoxification of the liver
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essential
in the energy generation of mitochondria (formation of ATP)
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responsible
in the detoxification process of metabolic end-products like homocysteine
and oxidation products
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important
in the generation of DNS - the body's software
If your blood has a certain level of B12, your nervous system may still have a lower one.
B12 supports the activities of your metabolism and especially
of your nervous system but...
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Vitamin B12 supplement is
NO
replacement of dietetic
measures.
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Astonishingly and as already said above, most physicians don't examine B12 at
all, although in multiple sclerosis vitamin B12 is so important. Call on your doctor to make
up for this.
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