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Posted 8/3/2021 3:41 AM (GMT -5)
enjoying my summer vacation i took one week off for volunteering at a Vipassana center i usually go to.

So i skipped taking vitamin B and wanted to see what happens. It took 3 days before the system broke down, felt groggy, nausea fatigue and brain fog started coming back.
So I ate some vitamin B and the symptoms started to disappear after half a day or so. i felt really great during the last half week of the retreat.

I do know that there is a lack of vitamin B in my body. I just wonder what could be the reason, is it leaking gut..? And more important, what else nutrition would I probably lack as an effect of this, I am thinking maybe there is another vitamin likely to not get taking up as well.
i havent found any other mineral or vitamin though that has the same impact, and i must have tried almost all...
Posted 8/3/2021 5:44 AM (GMT -5)
i have read that most of the bodies b vitamins are made by bacteria in the gut.

so perhaps its an indication of gut dysbiosis - ie the wrong bacteria - or wrong mix of bacteria in the gut

i think this happens a lot in Lyme etc as the gut often becomes inflamed ( lots of people with lyme also have IBS or leaky gut symptoms ) - once inflamed it does not function as it should any more and cannot any longer support the correct balance of microbes - as the conditions no longer favour them
Posted 8/3/2021 6:55 AM (GMT -5)
Thats a good explanation i didn think of, thanks..!

Might be a good idea to up the probiotics and see what happens..
Posted 8/3/2021 7:16 AM (GMT -5)
What b vitamin are you taking? Low methylation -> high histamine. High histamine can cause brain fog. Maybe youre MTHFR with a histamine intolerance
Posted 8/3/2021 9:25 AM (GMT -5)
Have you been tested for pyroluria? There was a thread here on that recently.
Posted 8/3/2021 9:53 AM (GMT -5)

MooseSafari said...
Thats a good explanation i didn think of, thanks..!

Might be a good idea to up the probiotics and see what happens..

will not hurt - but unfortunately - we can supplement less than 1% of the gut microbes via probiotics - and even when we do - they often do not populate the gut if the environment is not right for them.

research is still very much in its infancy around the topic - for example of how we can change that.

latest research shows that SIBO is the likely cause - which itself is caused by an auto-immune reaction - and then leads to lots of downstream issues - like leaky gut, nutrient deficiencies, immune imbalances etc etc
Posted 8/3/2021 1:14 PM (GMT -5)
Ah, so many aspects to check into. This sure is a complex disease...sad
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