Best Metabolics Vitamin B12

Vitamin B-12 in the Methylcobalamin form plays an essential role in virtually every cell in the body. It enhances the body’s metabolic rate for weight loss and up-regulates the conversion of fat and carbohydrates into energy. B12 is directly involved with the synthesis of fatty acids,digestion,protein synthesis,absorption of nutrients & supports the function of many other biological systems.

It’s easy to find people all around you who have had positive experiences with Vitamin B-12 shots. Complementary medicine practitioners have used them for years as an adjunct for their patients bothered with fatigue. However, the nutrient, once absorbed, heads for the nerve covering, and tends to have a protective effect there in a myriad of ways. In addition, it is vital in the prevention of certain forms of anemia. More recently, it has been found, in conjunction with a few other nutrients, to lower serum homocysteine levels, a blood marker involved as a cardiac risk factor.

Avoiding a true deficiency of B-12 is easy and the levels required to do so are fairly low. There is some controversy today concerning its reported benefits in the taking of much higher doses, but what’s really neat is that the nutrient is amazingly safe, so trying such doses, to see if they have that effect on a given individual, presents few problems.

The problem is, very little B-12 is absorbed orally, requiring a second agent to assure the body gets it by that route. That’s where sublingual (meaning under-the-tongue) B12 comes in. There is a bed of tiny blood vessels beneath the tongue that sits close to the surface, providing an enhanced area of absorption into the bloodstream that does not require an injection, while vastly improving the amount that the body would normally assimilate by taking a similar amount of the stuff by swallowing it (without the use of aspartame or sucralose).