Feel like you’re running on empty, constantly fighting something off, or cognitively stuck in the mud?
Sometimes, the best way to put the “B” back in “Being your Best” can be found via supporting a specific set of vitamins:
B vitamins play crucial roles in energy production, brainpower, and immune system function. In fact, your immune system needs these essential vitamins to create antibodies, the cells your body uses to fight off germs.
But getting enough B isn’t always easy… Boosting your body’s B vitamin supply involves more than just eating the right foods or taking a B-complex vitamin supplement.
Why It’s Hard to Get Enough B
Even if you eat a diet rich in vitamin B… even if you take the highest quality B vitamin supplements, your body could still be short on supplies.
Here’s why:
Your body has a constant demand for B vitamins, so it needs a constant supply. Every cell in every system in your body relies on B vitamins every day. The B team makes sure every cell in your body can function at full capacity, along with specific jobs such as:
- Converting food into energy
- Producing neurotransmitters (brain chemicals)
- Creating fresh new blood cells
- Keeping cellular DNA intact
Because B vitamins are water-soluble, your body can’t store them – meaning: you can’t stock up.
So giving your body access to a continuous supply of all 8 B vitamins is crucial… but even that might be enough.
Three key factors affect your B vitamin status:
- Intake – how much you get through diet, including supplements
- Absorption – how well your body digests, processes, and uses the B vitamins you take in
- Theft – how well your gut microbiome protects your B vitamin stash from pathogens looking to deplete it
If any one of those factors tips the wrong way, you’ll be B-deficient, and start feeling run down.
But there is a way to make sure all three work i