The family of B vitamins are important for many functions including energy production, cell metabolism, organ and tissue health, the nervous system, immune function, brain and more.
Low levels of B vitamins may affect the body in many ways including inability to sleep well, fatigue, joint or muscle ache, mood swings, forgetfulness, confusion or G.I. symptoms.
VITAMIN B DEFICIENCIES
You and no other person is deficient in any one B vitamin. That’s because all the B vitamins occur together in food as part of a complex.
There are many variations of B-vitamin deficiencies as there are different individuals. Formerly the disease beriberi *was thought to be caused by a deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine) and pellagra by lack of the B vitamin, niacin (B3).
It is well known that niacin (vitamin B3) deficiency manifests with several psychiatric manifestations. Also historically evidence has accumulated that niacin augmentation (to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense) can be used for treatment of schizophrenia.
When human volunteers stayed on diets lacking vitamin B1 (thiamine) or niacin (vitamin B3), however, neither beriberi nor pellagra has been produced. These diseases actually result from multiple deficiencies of all the B vitamins, the lack of vitamin B1 or niacin being only more prominent.
(*Beriberi is a disease of the nervous system caused by a person not getting enough thiamine (vitamin B1) in the diet. Thiamine is needed to break down food such as glucose. It is also found on the membranes of neurons. Symptoms of beriberi include severe lethargy and tiredness. Beriberi may also cause problems that affect the cardiovascular system, the nervous system, muscles, and gastrointestinal systems. It is often found in people with a history of drinking too much alcohol or who don’t eat healthy. There are two kinds of beriberi, wet and dry. Wet beriberi mainly affects the cardiovascular system. Dry beriberi affects the nervous system
**Pellagra is a disease caused by a lack of the vitamin niacin (vitamin B3). Symptoms include inflamed skin, diarrhea, dementia, and sores in the mouth. … Primary pellagra is due to a diet that does not contain enough niacin and tryptophan.
*** Schizophrenia: People with this disorder often do not behave the way most people do towards others. They also may not know what is real (this is called psychosis). Some common signs are strange beliefs, unclear or confused thinking and language, hallucinations (such as hearing voices that aren’t there), poor interaction with others, less expression of feelings, and not doing much. The word schizophrenia comes from two Greek words that mean to split and mind, because there is a ‘split’ between what’s going on in the person’s mind and what is actually happening.)
It is vitally important to make sure you get enough B vitamins and in proper balance.
There is a way you can check your vitamin B levels and that's on your tongue. Believe it or not, your tongue shows the deficiencies of each B vitamin. You can do your own test.
Here's a photo of a healthy tongue with adequate B vitamins and below it is one with deficiencies and the one below that shows severe deficiencies.
Many changes take place in your tongue when you’re short of B vitamins. The first change appears to be enlargement of the buds at the front and sides of your tongue. Later these buds become small or even disappear, making the tip and sides smooth, whereas the buds farther back will progressively enlarge. These buds have a flat appearance like button mushrooms.
As the deficiencies of these vitamins become more severe, clumps of taste buds fuse and grow together, pulling apart from other clumps and thus forming grooves or fissures. The first groove usually forms down the center of the tongue.
In a severe B-vitamin deficiency, your tongue may be so cut by grooves and fissures that it looks like a relief map of the Grand Canyon and surrounding territory or a flank steak run through a tenderizing machine.
That's why we now provide the B Complex for everyone to ensure they are not deficient.
You can order it here:
https://sunshinevitamins.com/collections/supplements/products/copy-of-bladder-eez