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Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) deficiency
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) is unusual as a B vitamin in that it is so extensively stored in muscle tissue.
Why we need Vitamin B6
We need Pyridoxine for protein and fat metabolism, hormone function (estrogen and testosterone), and the production of red blood cells, niacin, and neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine).
In other words we need pyridoxine to turn the proteins we eat into the proteins our body needs. We need it to convert carbohydrates from the form we store them in into the form which can be used for energy.
Pyridoxine play a lot of different roles in your body, but the first place a deficiency shows up is usually your immune system—you get sick more.
Vitamin B6 deficiency
Deficiency of Pyridoxine is uncommon. If you're low on pyridoxine, you're probably also low on the other B's, usually from poor diet.
Alcoholics are at risk of Vitamin B6 deficiency. Also at risk are pregnant or breastfeeding women; strict vegetarian or vegan and smokers.
Vitamin B6 deficiency causes depression and confusion, and, in extreme deficiency, brain wave abnormalities and convulsions.
Pyridoxine deficiency symptoms are nervousness, eczma, insomnia, irritability, migraine.
Natural sources of Pyridoxine
The best source of pyridoxine in your food is high-quality protein: chicken, pork, beef, fish, milk, dairy products, and eggs. Milk, dairy products, and eggs have less pyridoxine than fish and other meats, but they're still good sources. Also, pyridoxine is added to flour, corn meal, breakfast cereals, and many baked goods.
Vitamin B6 is easily destroy by heat and can be leached out by cooking water.
Deficiency of vitamins B complex
There are eight water soluble vitamins in vitamin B group and four related substances, each of which plays an important role: thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pyridoxine (B6), folic acid (B9), cyanocobalamin (B12) pantothenic acid and biotin.
We need vitamins of B complex for support and increase the rate of metabolism; maintain healthy skin and muscle tone; enhance immune and nervous system function; promote cell growth and division—including that of the red blood cells that help prevent anemia; reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal forms of cancer
When you have plenty of all the vitamin B's in your body, they work together to keep your body running efficiently, producing the energy.
If you're low on any one B vitamin, the others can't do their jobs.
Causes of Vitamin B deficiency
The B vitamins work so closely together that it is hard to tell which individual B vitamin is missing when a deficiency occurs.
Millions of people suffer from a deficiency of vitamin B for several reasons, major among which are:
- Stress
- Poor immune function.
- Chronic digestive problems.
- Alcohol
As alcohol blocks ability to absorb B vitamins
- Oral contraception reduces levels of vitamin B.
- Vegetarians and vegans
who don't eat any animal foods such as milk or eggs - Toxins and poisons in the environment and personal care products deplete vitamin B complex
Vitamin B deficiency symptoms
Symptoms sited below can be link with vitamin B deficiency:
- mental problems
- heart palpitation
- heart arrythmia
- fibrillation
- indigestion
- chronic fatigue
- chronic exhaustion
- vague fears
- fear that something dreadful is about to happen,nervousness
- ADD (attention deficiency), inability to concentrate, irritability
- feeling of uneasiness
- inomnia
- restlessness
- tingling in hands
- tingling fingers and toes
- rashes
- crying spells, inability to cope
and so much more.
How to avoid vitamin B deficiency
The best way to avoid a deficiency of B vitamins is to eat a varied diet of fresh fruit, an abundance of vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and other food as desired. Some of these B vitamins can also be made by friendly bacteria in a healthy colon and absorbed into circulation.
Natural sources B vitamins are unprocessed foods.
Processing, as with sugar and white flour, tends to significantly reduce B vitamin content.
B vitamins are particularly concentrated in meat and meat products such as liver, turkey, and tuna.
Other good sources for B vitamins are potatoes, bananas, lentils, chile peppers, tempeh, beans, nutritional yeast, brewer's yeast, and molasses.
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