#b vitamins

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Vitamin B12 is essential to nerve and cell health. It is not often found in plants or plant-based foods, with the exception of nutritional yeast, mushrooms, and sea veggies (algae). If you are vegan, vegetarian, or plant-based, you WILL need to supplement it. Common B12 deficiencies are fatigue, tingling, poor memory.

B-Group Vitamins Can Improve Concentration In People With First Episode Psychosis

B-group vitamins may be beneficial for maintaining concentration skills among people experiencing a first episode of psychosis. A first episode of psychosis can be a precursor to developing schizophrenia but psychotic symptoms may also be associated with bipolar disorder or severe depression.

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Taking extra B vitamins causes cancer (especially lung cancer) in cis men, doubling to quadrupling pre-existing risk.

We don’t know whether B vitamins do or don’t increase cancer risk in cis women. We also have no idea why this gender difference exists yet, so we don’t know how it affects trans people who have transitioned in either direction via hormones and/or gonad removal, or how it affects intersex people or people with hormone imbalances like PCOS.

The effect is even greater for already high-risk groups like smokers.

The increased cancer risk is so pronounced that the first study to discover it wasn’t even looking at B vitamin/cancer risk--it was looking at its effects on heart disease (in a study of about 7000 people). The risk held up in a new study with 77,000 people.

Most people who aren’t vegan or don’t have specific medical conditions/medications that cause deficiencies can get all their Vitamin B needs from regular food. (In many countries, flour, corn flours, and/or rice are already enriched with recommended amounts of B vitamins, iron, and sometimes calcium.)

Most B vitamin supplements contain asstastically high doses of the vitamins, often up to hundreds or thousands of times the recommended daily value, and they’re sold as panaceas despite being basically useless, if not worse than.

(Not mentioned in the article: Most energy drinks and shots also contain high levels of B vitamins, and they’re marketed to teenagers and adults under 30, often ones who wouldn’t take supplement pills, creating years of early, unnecessary, and often unwitting exposure. Most people check calories and caffeine content, not B vitamins.)

The RDV for B6 is 1.7 mg and the RDV for B12 is 2.4 μg. If you’re taking significantly more than that, you’re just throwing away money and likely giving yourself cancer.