B aggressive, B-E aggressive about taking Vitamin B's

Here is a very helpful list about all the vitamin B's that you need to take, their benefits, AND what you may be ingesting that depletes your body of these specific B vitamins that are so important for you, helping convert the food you eat to energy, keeping your heart healthy, and so much more. Don't forget to take them all together! Easiest way is in Shaklee's Vitamin B Complex.

Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) Water soluble-stored in heart, liver and brain.

Function: Called the “Morale” vitamin.  Essential for health of entire nervous system, for proper functioning of digestive system, aids growth of young children, assists the body to utilize energy from carbohydrate foods, needed during pregnancy and lactation and strenuous exercise.  Nourishes brain, eyes, ears, hair, heart, liver, kidneys.  Blood builder, maintains intestines and stomach; alleviators of pain; prevents excessive fatty deposits on wall of arteries, aids treatment of herpes, repels biting insects, protects effects of lead.

Vitamin B1 Depletors:  Negative emotions, alcohol, cooking heat, caffeine, excess sugar, stress, tobacco, surgery, raw fish and shellfish, muscle relaxants and sulfa drugs.

Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) Water soluble – stored in skeletal muscles.

Function: Called the “youth vitamin”.  Essential for proper enzyme formation, normal growth, tissue formation, metabolism of fats, carbohydrates and protein.  Helps maintain good vision, skin, nails, hair.  Essential for antibody formation, sodium, potassium balance, production of red blood cells and hormones, absorption of iron, provides extra stamina and essential during periods of lactation.

Vitamin B2 Depletors:  Alcohol, birth control pills, coffee, radiation, tobacco, ultraviolet light, drugs, estrogen and sugar.

Vitamin B3 (Niacinamide) Water soluble--- stored in liver.

Function:  Assists body to perform energy producing reactions in cells.  Converts amino acid tryptophan into niacin.  Promotes good physical health, aids in healthy skin, tongue and digestive system.  Regulates levels of blood, preventing high cholesterol and high blood pressure and heart attacks.  Essential for production of male and female sex hormones, helps regulate blood sugar level in hypoglycemia and eases attacks of diarrhea. Used to treat schizophrenic and autistic children.

Vitamin B3 Depletors:  Caffeine, antibiotics, alcohol, sleeping pills, estrogen, excessive sugar, refined carbohydrates and sulfa drugs.

Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid)  Water Soluble

Function:  “Panto” means everywhere-- is found in every living cell of the body. Essential for health of adrenal glands and hormones; needed for proper digestion, metabolization of fats, carbohydrates and protein, antibody formation and regulation of growth stimulation, vitamin utilization (radiation damage), May stimulate pituitary gland to put our natural cortisone.

Vitamin B5 Depletors:  Dmethyl bromide, insecticidal fumigant, alcohol, heat in cooking (canning), sulfa drugs, estrogen and sleeping pills.

Vitamin B6 (Pyridozine Hydrochloride)  Water soluble

Function:  Called the “vitality vitamin”.  Essential for conversion of protein foods into amino acids, production of antibodies, hormone adrenalin to maintain balance of minerals, potassium and sodium for entire nervous system, formation of red blood cells, protection against effects of an aesthetics and nausea in pregnancy; prevents formation of kidney stones, converts oxalic acid into a harmless form, protects harmful effects of gamma radiation and X-rays, aids in digestion and food assimilation, helps PMS, cancer immunity, essential for adequate enzyme function, without B6 the body can barely tolerate glucose and becomes sensitive to insulin.

Vitamin B6 Depletors:  Alcohol, oral contraceptives cause severe loss; canning and roasting, estrogen, long storage, most drugs and stress.

Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid)  Water soluble, small amounts stored in liver.

Function:  Essential for entire nervous system to stimulate production of hydrochloric acid, formation of genetic cells DNA and RNA, essential for absorption of iron and calcium with Vitamin B12 and C to break down protein foods, essential for formation of new red blood cells, production of antibodies and the maintenance of sex organs.

Vitamin B9 Depletors:  Contraceptives, high temperatures, alcohol, coffee, stress, sulfa drugs, tobacco, estrogen, food processing, barbiturates, dilantin.

Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)  Slightly water soluble

Function:  Calcium needed for assimilation.  Only vitamin which contains a mineral element—cobalt.  Essential in the metabolism of carbohydrate, fat and protein, blood cell formation and bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract, needed for normal growth of healthy skin, mucus membrane and nervous system, necessary for the body’s use in amino acids and vitamin D and the utliliztion of iron.  Injections of  B12 have been given in the treatment of pernicious anemia as in multiple sclerosis, great improvement as well in chronic alcoholism and diabetes mellitus and osteoarthritis.

Virtamin B12 Depletors:  Laxatives, alcohol, antibiotics, aspirin, diuretics, antacids, tobacco, caffeine, estrogen, sleeping pills, contraceptives, intestinal parasites, cooking.

Other B Viamins are B13 (Orotic Acid), B15 (pangamic Acid), B17 (Laetrile), and PABA (Para-aminobenzoic Acid)

All B’s should be taken together in one balanced complex form.