[Alpha Mind]

(02-13-2013 05:14 AM)Thomas the Rhymer Wrote:  

(02-13-2013 04:37 AM)Aer Wrote:  

If you all weren't aware, the most bioavailable version of Vitamin B-12 is not the one which you usually take with your multivitamins. That is a different version called cyanocobalamin, which has much more difficulty binding to your red blood cells due to the fact that it has to be detoxified by the liver due to the fact that it has a cyanide molecule attached to it.

The solution here is not straight cobalamin, but methylcobalamin, as the methyl molecule makes it much more bioavailable.

Your physiology is a bit off. The cyanide in the vitamin B12 molecule is trapped and harmless (in fact, the treatment of cyanide poisoning is to give a substance that converts cyanide into vitamin B12). The methylated B12 you take has to be converted into normal B12 by the body in order for it to be used.

As a side process, you will also generate methionine, an amino acid as a byproduct if you take methylated B12. This might explain some of the benefits you experience, as you were possibly triggering off a protein rush. Homocysteine will also drop, and some people are claiming that it is an inflammatory molecule, so less inflammation may result.

Although if the stuff works, who cares how it works? As long as it works all is good.

From wikipedia:

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