Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Sublingual Vitamin B12 Info

Vitamin B12DO Any of these 9 Items sound Familiar?
1. Do you find that you just don't have the energy that you used to?

2. Do you have difficulty remembering things, even though your memory has traditionally been good?

3. Do you get angry or frustrated by situations that wouldn't have bothered you ten years ago?

4. Do you feel down or lonely on a more frequent basis?

5. Are you under increasing stress and pressure?

6. Do you sleep poorly or fail to get at least seven and a half hours of sleep consistently?

7. Do you often feel tired or listless?

8. Do you increasingly rely on caffeine to make it through the day?

9. Is it harder for you to concentrate than it used to be?

Sublingual vitamin b12's main ingredient is actually the chemical element, cobalt. Cobalt in terms of its biological role is know as cobalamin or vitamin b12. Sublingual vitamin b12 was first isolated from a liver extract in 1948. Up until that point, eating large amounts of raw liver on a daily basis was the only treatment available for people suffering from pernicious anemia (vitamin b12 deficiency symptoms). Finally in 1955, the chemical structure of vitamin B12 was determined at Oxford University and in the same year, a group at Harvard succeeded in making vitamin B12 synthetically.

Theoretically we should be able to get our daily requirement of sublingual vitamin b12 from the foods we eat. However this is not always possible. Small amounts of sublingual vitamin b12 exist in the soil. The vitamin b12 nourishes the plants as they grow and store trace amounts in their leaves. Then as animals eat the plants, the vitamin b12 gets transferred to the animals where it is stored in their liver and other body tissues. In this manner, vitamin b12 makes it to the top of the food chain to humans who get their vitamin B12 by eating either the animals themselves or the products of the animals, like eggs, milk, butter and cheese. Over time our soil has become depleted of much of the vitamin B-12. Vegetarians who eat no meat and vegans who eat no animal products period are at a higher risk for deficiency because they are eating fruits and vegetables grown in depleted soil. Even those who eat animal products such as liver, eggs, fish, and dairy products may not be getting adequate vitamin B12 in their diet due to the depletion of nutrients in the soil.