Are you taking Vitamin B6?

[Warrego]

Can you really trust so-called health improvement vitamins? The truth may surprise you, especially if you take Vitamin B6.

Vitamin producers continually barrage us with claims like this: “Vitamin B6 is an essential nutrient that can help older adults maintain a healthy lifestyle”. But can it really?



If you are taking Vitamin B6, read this:

Blood toxicity from vitamin B6 worse than originally thought, TGA admits

 

[stretch5881]

Interesting. My wife has taken a B6 supplement for years, for ulnar nerve entrapment. It helps and no side effects that we've noticed.

 

[Warrego]

Interesting. My wife has taken a B6 supplement for years, for ulnar nerve entrapment. It helps and no side effects that we've noticed.

Everybody is different. What benefits one may be detrimental to another. Getting consensus in the medical profession is almost impossible. Where one expert tells us this will fix you up, another will tell us the opposite. It's just better to be aware of both sides of the argument, then make up your mind which way you will go

 

[Nathan]

I take a B complex supplement, has all the "B"s at the recommended daily amount.

 

[Been There]

I do take B-2. For some reason after all of these years, my riboflavin had dropped mysteriously.

 

[AnnieA]

See that the OP is Australian. Not sure about labels elsewhere but US vitamin and mineral supplements for adults are required to list the amounts of each in the supplement and % Daily Value next to that and the daily values are set well below harmful levels.

 

[Beezer]

I take a once-a-day multivitamin...along with 4 grams of Omega 3 Fish Oil pills.

I haven't grown gills just yet.

 

[Coleman00]

I take a B complex supplement, has all the "B"s at the recommended daily amount.

I also started to take nutraharmony b complex, it is already better after 2 weeks. Which one do you take?

 

[Michael Z]

This is a water soluble vitamin, so getting b6 from food, even in excess, should not be a problem, as cited in several reputable sources like Top7 Benefits of Vitamin B6 . And it has health benefits. Still, there are warnings of taking too much through supplements. Being water soluble I would think you would have to take quite a bit in excess.

Eat a diet that includes the natural sources. https://www.healthline.com/health/vitamin-b6-foods

 

[WhatInThe]

They 'say' B6 helps repel mosquitoes and bites.

Many b complex vitamins usually have the minimum