Re: B6 (was diet for obesity and leptin or something like that)

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Katy-

>Okay, so where are you getting all your juicey B6 information?

All over the place. Cumulative research.

>I found this statement on the internet " Pyridoxal phosphate is not

>taken orally unless enterically coated because it is destroyed by

>the digestion process " . If that's true that may explain why the

>doctor found that PLP doesn't work for some people - maybe they were

>taking non-coated PLP or non-sublingual?

That's very possible. That's why the co-enzyme forms of B-vitamins are

generally sold in sublingual forms. The problem is that in order to make

the sublingual tabs palatable, companies inevitably bind them with stuff

like sorbitol, which is very bad. I don't know whether pyridoxal

(unphosphorylated, not the co-enzyme version) is available anywhere, but

that might be useful too, since the body can much more readily make PLP

from PL than from PN.

It remains problematic, though, that the FDA is trying to squelch the sale

of PM. There are a couple sources besides Jarrow, though, and of course

raw liver provides some. How much, though, is anyone's guess. The USDA

database is grossly incomplete and often inaccurate, and it certainly

doesn't get into vitamer issues.

>Anyway, my question... do you see anything really, really bad about

>taking pyridoxine. I've got a couple of bottles of the Thorne B6

>formulation that has both forms and the cheapskate in me wants to

>finish the bottles since they are working really well for me before

>I look into finding a better source?

I don't really know. I'm basically convinced that it's a waste of money,

but I have no solid reason to believe it's actually

counterproductive. However, I have heard from some natural medicine types

that in their opinion it inhibits the absorption of the other forms of B6,

so I'd be cautious, at any rate.

>Just being nosey, are you some type of scientist/engineer or do you

>have a chemistry/science related degree?

No.

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