Stay in good shape with the help of vitamin B12

Vitamin B12 takes part in processing of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. It is also a necessary element to produce the blood cells and nerve sheaths. As a coenzyme, B12 helps repair the damaged DNA. Without it, we wouldn't be able to digest properly, we would feel tired and depressed and the process of aging would go much faster. Even this list alone should tell everybody how important vitamin B12 is.

Vitamin B12 can be found only in food of animal origin like liver, meat, milk, cheese and eggs. However, our main source of it is our own liver, where vitamin B12 can be stored even for years. In fact, vitamin B12 is probably the only one which we do not need to consume every day in order to stay in good health. All we have to do is to take it from time to time to keep our liver well stocked.

Still, its deficiency may cause severe health problems and may occur in case of strictly vegetarian or vegan diets that do not include any animal products and do not use vitamin supplements. It may also happen in case of seniors. Fortunately, as this vitamin can be stored in our liver, a few vitamin B12 pills taken from time to time should solve such problems.

Although vitamin B12 deficiency is so easy to cure, we cannot neglect this danger, as the lack of this vitamin causes pernicious anemia whose symptoms include:

• apathy,
• depression,
• typical anemia,
• degeneration of peripheral nerves which may end in paralysis.

Additionally, its lack may also cause decreased appetite and weight loss, but the side-effects are too dangerous to use vitamin B12 deficiency for dietary reasons.

High intake of vitamin B12 will not help us lose weight, nor it will be very healthy for us. The best idea is just to secure a stable mid-level intake. The daily norm for adults is about 2.4 mcg and can be easily achieved in almost every diet as long as it's not a vegetarian one.

As vitamin B12 is responsible for proper digesting, the lack of it as well as overdosing for a some period of time, just like in case of other vitamins B, may cause a so-called yo-yo effect.

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