Calanna's Blog: OCTOBER 2012 - Practitioner's Advice on Vitamin B

B vitamins, a basic essential vitamin which is processed out of much of our foods is a very necessary nutritional aspect for mind health. Other habits decrease this important vitamin in our intestines such as consuming alcohol, eating a boxed cereal for breakfast and wheaten flour breads for lunch. It’s no wonder depression has become a national issue. I have to ask, is it an illness, or is it a nutritional deficiency?

B Vitamins are critical for so many bodily organ functions. However, I am talking today about depression so will concentrate on this area in which B vitamins play a major role. If you eat a high fat, processed and/or takeaway food diet, B vitamin supplements are not supplemental, they are essential to satisfy basic nutritional need.

Food sources of B Vitamins are whole grains, eggs, red meat, liver, poultry, fish, dairy including cheese and pure butter, seafood, nuts, seeds, royal jelly, brewers yeast, broccoli, kale, beetroot, corn plus bifido bacteria supplement to ensure the gut produces these vitamins from the foods. The cholesterol management effect of vitamin B5 will allow you to eat steak, eggs, and butter without detriment to cholesterol levels providing processed carbohydrates are not eaten. Processed carbs come as boxed cereals, breads, biscuits, pasta and white rice. We have been advised against eating eggs, red meat, nuts and natural full fat foods for many years now. When we freely ate eggs, red meats, butter and full cream milks we did not suffer the same mental and behavioural problems we are encountering today.

Of course there are other influences that contribute to depression. However, the lack of B vitamins in our diet is a major factor which may be supplemented by taking a daily B vitamin complex, plus an individual B vitamin according to need, and improving our food choices.

Please ask for the information sheets on Depression and Anxiety which will include B vitamins in detail at Calanna’s Natural Medicine Clinics, Townsville, North Cairns and Woree.

Ref: Dr Atkins Vita-Nutrient solution. Roberts C Atkins. MD. Prescription for Nutritional Healing Phyllis A Balch, ANC.