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Diabetes Lab Tests

Diabetes Lab Tests

Diabetes Lab tests Written by: Dr. Claire Arcidiacono, ND For further questions or concerns email me at [email protected]† Diabetes is ruled out or confirmed with blood tests. One of the most important tests is A1c or hemoglobin A1c (hA1C). This measures the average blood sugar levels 

The Nutritional Aspect On Controlling Blood Sugar Health

The Nutritional Aspect On Controlling Blood Sugar Health

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Your Orthopedist Needs to Know This Supplement – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 530

Your Orthopedist Needs to Know This Supplement – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 530

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Your Orthopedist Needs to Know This Supplement – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 530

Hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.

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InVite Health Podcast Intro: Welcome to the InVite Health Podcast, where our degreed healthcare professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that InVite Health has to offer at www.invitehealth.com/podcast. First time customers can use promo code PODCAST at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started!

[00:00:40] Arthritis is terrible, it can ruin your day. There’s pain, stiffness, sometimes tenderness. It really limits your ability to participate in things, to perform physical activity and exercise. It can affect your mobility. Now, the most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis, and it can range from very mild to very severe. And the worse it is, the worse the pain, which prevents or greatly limits your physical activity and your mobility. It affects about 25% of all adults over the age of 60. It becomes much more common after the age of 40. It’s more common in women than men. It’s more common in diabetics. And this is data from the Journal of Clinical and Geriatric Medicine.† [00:01:31]

[00:01:33] Doctors typically treat mild osteoarthritis with NSAIDs, drugs like Advil and Aleve, and physical therapy to strengthen the muscles around the leg for greater support. The NSAIDs, of course, have a lot of side effects. Strongly recommend physical therapy. Now there’s a safe and convenient supplement that works as well as the NSAIDs like Celebrex, Advil and Aleve, but it has the added advantage of being very easy to administrate. You only have to take one tiny, easy to swallow capsule every morning. You could take it with or without food. It’s American sourced. It’s extremely safe. And it has GRAS certification, generally recognized as safe for you to use. An orthopedic doctor should really become conversant with the supplement. It’s called UC-IIⓇ. So welcome to my episode, Orthopedic Doctors Need to Know This Supplement. My name is Jerry Hickey. I’m a licensed pharmacist specializing in nutrition, which I’ve studied for many decades. Now, as far as it goes, you can find all of our InViteⓇ episodes, all of our podcasts for free wherever you listen to episodes, or just go to invitehealth.com/podcast. You can also find us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @invitehealth. Please subscribe and leave us a review.† [00:03:06]

[00:03:07] So let’s get going. First, what is your joint? Well, and what is cartilage? Your joints are where your bones meet, so you can’t open a door without a hinge to swing the door and keep it upright. It’s the same with a joint. The joint acts like the hinge between your bones now, so you can move so you have mobility. They’re also designed to really protect the ends of your bones. So obviously, if there’s a lot of damage to the joint, this can affect the end of your bones also. Now, the knee joint is the most common point where you suffer with arthritis, with osteoarthritis, the most common by far form of arthritis. It connects the thigh bone, which is called your femur, with the shin bone, which is called your tibia. So what are, what else is involved? There’s ligaments that connect the bones to each other, and there’s tendons that connect your muscles to your bones so you can move them. So cartilage covers the end of your bone. It cushions them. It’s tough. It’s a slippery substance. In osteoarthritis, your cartilage is increasingly damaged or degraded. This takes time. It happens gradually, typically. The type of cartilage in your joints is called hyaline cartilage. There’s other forms of cartilage. It’s also found in your nasal septum and your respiratory tract. So cartilage is tough, yet it’s flexible. It’s made out of water and a matrix. So the matrix is the superstructure of the cartilage. The matrix is the superstructure. It’s made out of proteins. It’s made out of collagen and it’s made out of proteoglycans. The hyaline cartilage in your knee is roughly 70% water, but the amount of water and the amount of fluid in it declines with age. So that’s one of the problems. That’s one of the reasons why you’re more prone to osteoarthritis with age.† [00:05:16]

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[00:05:17] Proteoglycans are very interesting. They fill up the spaces in between the cells and your joint cartilage. So proteoglycans are mostly made up of glycosaminoglycans, so think chondroitin and glucosamine. Everybody’s heard of glucosamine and chondroitin by now, it’s the most popular joint supplement. It does work. The only cells found in cartilage are called chondrocytes. They make and they maintain and they repair the cartilage. So the hyaline cartilage in your joint, like in your knee joint, is very smooth and it’s slippery, and it allows your bones to glide over one another when you move. So the cartilage, besides being called hyaline in the joints, just to let you know, so you don’t get confused, it’s also called articular cartilage. It’s the cushion in a joint. It’s the shock absorber. It’s the coating on the outside of your bones where they meet. When the cartilage is damaged or worn away, the joint affected it becomes stiff. It becomes increasingly more painful. This limits your range of motion. Your range of motion is how much you could bend a joint. In arthritis, we’re looking for you to be able to bend it further, to move it further, stretch it further without pain. So it’s how much the joint can stretch.† [00:06:44]

[00:06:46] Now, the most common sites of osteoarthritis are the knee, the hips, the hands and the spine. There is also inflammation in addition to the pain and stiffness. And a doctor, if they give you an X-ray, can see the amount of damage to the cartilage. In severe osteoarthritis, cartilage can be completely worn away and your bones start to rub together. Bones are rubbing on bones. It’s called bone on bone arthritis. So not only is the joint damaged, but so are the end of your bones. So when they do knee replacement surgery, they’re actually removing part of the end of the bone also, they have to stabilize the bone in the knee. So when you have bone on bone arthritis or severe osteoarthritis, it puts a lot of extra stress on the knee, and that leads to a lot of damage. It leads to bone spurs. These are also known as osteophytes. These grow in the margins of the joint, and they cause more anguish.† [00:07:50]

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[00:07:53] So, here are some of the risk factors for osteoarthritis. It can be hereditary. It can happen after an accident. People who play a lot of sports can suffer from it because you have repeat stress on a joint, so you have repeat movements. Being overweight is a major contributor to developing osteoarthritis, and so is type two diabetes, by the way. You see it occurring mostly in people over the age of 40. It becomes pretty common in people over the age of 60. Like I said before, up to 25% of people over the age of 60 have osteoarthritis and it’s slightly more common in women than men. Some of the symptoms, pain, especially after activity, especially after movement. Stiffness, and this is especially after inactivity, like if you take a, a long ride on your car or you’re sitting on a couch bingeing TV shows or when you first wake up in the morning, the joint could be very stiff. It could be tender when you touch it, like when there’s light pressure on it. It reduces your range of motion, of flexibility. And there could be crepitus, like a popping, crackling sound, but you could feel like grating. You could feel grating in a joint.† [00:09:13]

[00:09:14] So what are some of the treatments? Well, physical therapy and I strongly recommend that. It strengthens the muscles around the joints, so it gives the joint greater support. And this improves your flexibility and can help reduce the pain. Also, mild exercise like walking and swimming that you can do on your own or going on a bicycle. This helps the pain and the stiffness, but it also helps you lose weight. Occupational therapy might be important depending on where you have the arthritis, so that particular therapist helps you figure out how to carry on day by day activities. For instance, what type of toothbrush to use like is a thicker toothbrush better to use when you’re brushing your teeth if you have arthritis in your hand? They can give you a cortisone injections. Be careful with that. You’re not supposed to get more than two to four in one particular year. There do seem to be issues with that. There’s NSAIDs. NSAIDs could be a naproxen sodium, could be ibuprofen, could be celecoxib. There’s a whole bunch of them. They could be very dangerous. They very quickly can raise your blood pressure. And a lot of older people already have elevated blood pressure. They can put pressure on the kidneys and damage the kidneys. In some people, thet could trigger asthmatic attacks. They can increase high pressure. They can affect your hearing and cause tinnitus, ringing in the ears, but they can also trigger a stroke and heart failure. So they’re not as safe as you think they are. Then there’s lubricating injections with hyaluronic acid. Now, if it gets bad enough, there’s joint replacement surgery and it works very well, I mean, you saw with Tiger Woods, he’s playing golf again, right? The problem with that is sometimes there is infections, but it can come loose. Rarely, it can wear out with time, so you need a second joint replacement. Very important, if you have joint replacement, you need to take a blood thinner, at least for some level of time, because joint replacement surgery typically triggers blood clots, so it’s very important to take a blood thinner to help prevent a stroke.† [00:11:47]

[00:11:48] So this brings us to our supplement. I’ve been taking it for years with great success, undenatured type two collagen. It’s also known as UC-IIⓇ. So the UC-IIⓇ, the undenatured type two cartilage, it’s a standardized 40mg. That’s why it’s such a tiny, tiny capsule and you only have to take it once a day. It’s very easy to swallow and it’s 25% type two collagen, which is 10mg of collagen, and it’s rather remarkable. An early research published by Harvard shows that it works in a completely different way than all the drugs and all the other joint supplements. It works as a decoy. So let me tell you quickly about the Harvard research, the early Harvard research. It was people with the second most common arthritis called rheumatoid arthritis. Now, that’s nowhere as common an occurrence as osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is much more common. But the second most common arthritis is an autoimmune arthritis called rheumatoid arthritis, where your own immune system is attacking your joints and it can attack all your joints. But very commonly it’s destroying the joints in your in your hands. So the Harvard researchers gave people at rheumatoid arthritis either a placebo, a fake pill, a safe fake pill or the undenatured type two collagen, the UC-IIⓇ. And there was a big difference. The UC-II was actually putting a lot of people into remission. They were not taking drugs at the time. Remission means you still have a disease, but there’s nothing happening with the disease right now. So in this case, there would be no pain, no stiffness, et cetera.† [00:13:39]

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[00:13:41] So let me tell you my story real quick. I had damaged my knee several times in accidents, once in a kayaking accident, once in a car accident. I also played a lot of sports when I was younger, and I went to see my friend, an orthopedic surgeon named Dr. Jerry Lubliner in Manhattan, and he took X-rays and he said, “Jerry, you have a, you have arthritis and maybe someday you’ll need knee replacement.” This was in my left knee, and I’ll tell you how I came to see the doctor. My wife and I were living in Manhattan at the time and on the weekends, we loved to take this huge walks, six miles, eight miles, ten miles, because it’s so interesting walking around Manhattan and watching everything and looking at the architecture and stopping someplace to eat randomly and watching all the people, it’s fascinating. But at one point, I just, I couldn’t walk. One, one Sunday, we went to take a walk down on the Hudson River, Lower East, West Side. We walked about a half a mile and I told my wife, “I can’t do what I have to go home.” I had to get in a cab. So that kind of went down. I used some ice, some stretching, etc. But we moved to a house soon after that, we moved to a house on Long Island in a place called Westbury, and I didn’t know how bad my knee was until we moved to Westbury. First of all, just walking my little dogs, you know, I had these apartment sized dogs, Charlie and Hudson, great dogs, still have them. They’re wonderful, elderly, wonderful dogs. Just stepping off the curb hurt. But I didn’t realize how bad it was until I started going up to the second floor. I was bringing lamps and things up to the second floor for my two sons’ bedrooms. The pain was excruciating. And walking down the stairs, I had to hold on to the banister. I felt like I was going to go head over teakettle. I thought I was going to just, you know, my knee would give out, I’d just fall down the stairs. It was excruciating. So at the same time, I, we moved into the house, my wife and I and our dogs, my sons would visit us. They were a little bit older at the time. I started taking the, the undenatured type two collagen. It had just come in. Within the first week walking the dogs, I felt no pain stepping off the curb. In fact, by the first week, I was walking a mile with no pain. I was very happy. By the second week, I was able to go to the gym and lift weights. Now, I don’t mean doing squats and leg exercises. It was too soon for that, but I could stand up and lift weights, barbells and dumbbells. Whereas before that was really painful, just sitting on the couch hurt, which shouldn’t happen. And by the fourth week I had, you know, the human body is amazing because as soon as pain goes away, you forget the pain. By the fourth week, I didn’t even realize that I was running up and down the stairs for the third time, decorating my kids’ bedrooms. I had zero pain.† [00:16:39]

[00:16:41] So let’s look at some of the research. These are researchers in California Medicus Research. It’s in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. And these are athletic people who go to the gym that were getting leg pain and stiffness with exercise. So it was a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled human clinical trial, so that’s a gold standard state of the art human clinical trial. 55 athletic people with knee pain after physical activity, after exercise. They were given this product or placebo for four months, and there was a true drop in their knee pain and in their stiffness, and it was totally safe. See, that’s the beauty of it. It’s totally safe. There’s no side effects. So the University of California, Davis, their health care system, did a big study. I believe the University of Massachusetts, Lowell was involved with this in the University of Connecticut, Storrs was involved there. The University of California Davis health care system, this particular one was in Sacramento. They published their findings in the journal Nutrition Journal. It’s almost 200 patients with arthritic knee pain. It’s a six month long study. It’s double blinded, so the doctors nor the patients knew if they were getting placebo, a fake pill or the UC-IIⓇ. Randomized so… And there was a real drop, a significant drop in their knee pain. I mean, it really meant something. They were using all of these different ways, like the Luke Wayne Functional Index and the doctors saw improvement. The patients certainly felt improvement. The researchers noted the improvement. There was a significant drop in knee pain. Stiffness improved fantastically. The function of the joint, the range of motion, all improved how much they could bend the knee without pain or how far they could walk on a treadmill or walking up and down the stairs. You know, just carrying on the activities of daily living, just walking up and down the stairs or taking out the recyclables. And here’s the thing. It was as safe as placebo. So Canadian researchers did a 90 day study. It’s published in the International Journal of Medical Sciences, and same thing they compared the UC-IIⓇ, the placebo, and they also compared it to pharmaceutical grade glucosamine-chondroitin. Now, glucosamine-chondroitin does work. There’s plenty of evidence that they work, and they’re just about as good as celecoxib, et cetera. But the UC-II very quickly was two times as powerful as glucosamine and chondroitin for reducing pain and stiffness. And by the end of the 90 day period, it was about three times as good as glucosamine-chondroitin. And this is pharmaceutical grade glucosamine and chondroitin, it really works. And once again, joint function improved, quality of life improved, like these people could go outside and be active and get back on the golf course or take a walk with their grandkid, etc. Range of motion improved, how, how long they could walk on a treadmill improved. So a very recent study from the journal Food and Function, it’s the University of Peking. These are patients with type two diabetes that’s a real risk factor for osteoarthritis. Type two diabetics are more prone to arthritic joints, and they’re more prone to bone loss, osteoporosis. They’re both an issue. And the distance they could walk without pain improved dramatically, and once again, it was really safe.† [00:20:12]

[00:20:13] Now there’s a number of studies in dogs the University of Kansas Veterinary School, Veterinary Hospital, arthritic dogs. They give them UC-IIⓇ and they’re wagging their tail again. And also with racehorses, you know, racehorses get arthritis in or fetlock. It’s like that extra ankle. It helped them, too. But of course, horses are thousands of pounds. They had to take a lot of this? So the findings of all the studies combined, UC-IIⓇ reduces inflammation in the joint. It reduces pain in the joint. It works differently by working as a decoy, pulling the immune system away from the joint. That’s why I said it works differently than other supplements. It works differently than the pain drugs and the NSAID drugs. It reduces pain. It reduces inflammation. It reduces stiffness. It helps restore range of motion, how much you could bend your knee and your elbow, etc. cetera, without pain. It increases quality of life, how far you can walk and walking up and down stairs and being physically active. We’re not worrying about pain just when you want to go out and have dinner with your friends. It was perfectly safe. This is the thing. The drugs are not perfectly safe. They could be quite toxic. And it’s GRAS certified by the FDA, the American Food and Drug Administration, meaning that it’s generally recognized as being safe for you to use. It’s totally a million percent United States sourced. It’s a tiny capsule. You only have to take it once a day in the morning you take it with or without food. But here’s the thing, the research shows it helps prevent further erosion of the joint. Now, drugs can’t do that. Aspirin can’t do that. Tylenol can’t do that. None of the drugs can do that, ibuprofen, naproxen celecoxib, none of the drugs can prevent you from losing more joint tissue. So even though they’re helping you with pain today, eventually they’re going to stop working because there won’t be any joint to protect. The research on the undenatured type two collagen shows that it helps prevent further loss of joint tissue, which basically says get on it as soon as possible because it’ll help prevent you from getting worse.† [00:22:33]

[00:22:35] So thank you for listening to today’s episode. You can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts or go to invitehealth.com/podcast. You can also find us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @invitehealth. When you listen, please subscribe and leave us a review. I want to thank you for listening, and I hope to see you next time on the next episode of the InViteⓇ Health Podcast. Jerry Hickey signing off.† [00:22:35]

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Keto Diet vs Mediterranean Diet – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 525

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Your Cardiologist Needs To Know This Supplement – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 524

Your Cardiologist Needs To Know This Supplement – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 524

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The Importance of Vitamin B6 – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 523

The Importance of Vitamin B6 – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 523

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The Importance of Vitamin B6 – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 523

Hosted by Amanda Williams, MPH

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InVite Health Podcast Intro: Welcome to the InVite Health Podcast, where our degreed healthcare professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that InVite Health has to offer at www.invitehealth.com/podcast. First time customers can use promo code PODCAST at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started!

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[00:00:40] I recently talked about the importance of B-complex and the 11 different B-vitamins. Today, I want to talk specifically about Vitamin B6 because oftentimes people will ask, “Do I need to take individual B-vitamins?” And the answer to that is sometimes yes. Sometimes, your body may require a specific B-vitamin in a higher amount, depending upon what your health needs or your health concerns may be. So I want to talk about what Vitamin B6 is and its function in the body. I’m Amanda Williams, MD, MPH, Scientific Director at InViteⓇ Health.† [00:01:19]

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[00:01:20] So Vitamin B6 also goes by the name of pyridoxine, and we certainly understand that when we’re looking at individual B-vitamins, they all have critical roles in our everyday functionality. So we think about just the immune system, for example. We know that those B-vitamins are critical to the way that our immunity is actually working. So when we look at the functions of Vitamin B6 specifically in the body, we can recognize that it’s very important when it comes to detoxifying chemicals that are in our system. We can recognize that it’s very involved in strengthening our connective tissue, so when we think about our skin, when we think about our vascular system. We know that when it comes to the synthesis of different neurotransmitters, including things like serotonin, which we always consider to be our happy neurotransmitter, this is where Vitamin B6 is quite critical to this. We have to have adequate B6 in order for tryptophan to convert into serotonin. So for those who maybe suffer with issues such as low mood or depression, you can always look towards adding in some Vitamin B6 to see if this will better support your body’s ability to make or produce more serotonin. We know that when it comes to our sleep cycle to hit REM, that very important stage of sleep, we are going to require Vitamin B6. And this makes sense when you look at that conversion of tryptophan to serotonin and then we know from there we go to melatonin, so we can start to tie all of these pieces together.† [00:03:10]

[00:03:11] But when it comes to cholesterol, we recognize that Vitamin B6 also is very important. And when it comes to the absorption of fats and proteins in the body. When we think about our GI system and the production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach in order to help break down the foods that we are taking in and for that maintaining of the proper acid-base balance. We know that we need to have this when it comes to different amino acids and the amino groups in the body. So when it comes to the metabolism of amino acids, we know those are those building blocks of proteins in the body. We know that when we think about the methylation pathways, I kind of go back to detoxification. So if someone has inadequate detoxification occurring in the body, we can in a sense become toxic over time. So we even see this in the vascular system in particular with elevated levels of homocysteine. We know that when homocysteine is high in our body, it shows that our vascular system is overreactive or it’s inflamed. That is a big problem. We don’t want to have vascular inflammation, and homocysteine is definitely a key indicator to that. So what should you be doing? Well, if you have high levels of homocysteine, certainly we need to be incorporating Vitamin B6 along with folate and B12, as well as N-acetyl cysteine. So we know that there are many different functions when it comes to Vitamin B6.† [00:04:55]

[00:04:56] Now, if someone has low levels of Vitamin B6. Some of the things that you may experience, perhaps you’re a little bit more on edge or irritable. Maybe you do have depression. Maybe you feel a little nervous. It’s possible that you have some little irritations even within your mouth area. We know that when it comes to lesions around the mouth, Vitamin B6 is a common cause for this. We can look at just general fatigue and weakness. Numbness is another common thing because when we look at glycation, how it is that blood sugar can impact our nervous system, and B6 is integrally involved into this. We can look at disruptions in your sleep. Perhaps you have insomnia and you’re trying to figure out why this is. We can look at stress, we can look at diet, but we can also look at inadequate exposure to things like Vitamin B6. [00:05:57][61.2]

[00:05:58] Now, food source wise, the reason why most people are not technically deficient in B6… You may be insufficient, meaning you’re, you’re getting a little exposure, but maybe not what you actually need for B6 to do all of these different functions every day. Because when you look at the foods that contain Vitamin B6, it’s quite an extensive list. Now, where the problem comes in is many of the foods that have a high amount of Vitamin B6 fall into food categories that many Americans are just not obtaining on a regular basis. So if you’re following a Mediterranean diet, you’re probably well covered with your B6. But if you are adhering to more of a Standard American Diet, then the likelihood that you have Vitamin B6 insufficiency is pretty high because you look at some of the cruciferous vegetables. We know this is a wonderful source of Vitamin B6 when you think about cauliflower and cabbage for example. We can look at different fatty fish that we know have a good amount of Vitamin B6 in this. And once again, when you think about how most Americans eat, if you’re not eating things like walnuts, for example, or sunflower seeds, then you may not be getting an adequate exposure. So this certainly can be a significant problem over time.† [00:07:26]

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[00:07:27] We also can recognize that there are many different medications that can create low levels of Vitamin B6, and they are kind of across the board when you look at the different classes of medications. You can look at a whole wide swath of antibiotics, from penicillin to fluoroquinolones to the tetracyclines. We know that birth control pills, oral contraceptives certainly can create this issue as well. You can see how different amphetamines many people are prescribed for, you know, ADD, they’re prescribed things like Adderall. Now that Adderall is an amphetamine, it’s speed, so that can potentially lower your Vitamin B6 level, which can certainly lead to problems.† [00:08:20]

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[00:08:21] Now, being that Vitamin B6 is water soluble, this is why it’s important that we are getting adequate exposure on a regular basis. So you can look at many reasons as to why someone would want to be taking Vitamin B6 as a standalone vitamin. And we can look at issues such as depression. We can certainly look at issues when it comes to fertility. We can look at issues when it comes to skin health, such as eczema and psoriasis, any type of a dermatitis, because remember, we’re thinking about the connective tissue. So there are many different uses for Vitamin B6, and supplementation with B6 can certainly be very supportive when it comes to your cardiovascular health, when it comes to your neurological health. And thinking about that homocysteine, think about that detoxification. All of these things are critical to the way that our body functions each and every single day when we think about energy production in the body and our immune function. The ability for our cells to repair themselves, when we think about our DNA, for example, that mother board when it comes to the internal function of every cell in the body. So when we don’t have adequate b6, you can start to see why it is so incredibly problematic. So utilizing Vitamin B6 can do so many wonderful things for your system when it comes to regulating your sleep, when it comes to supporting healthy cholesterol, when it comes to the nerve health. And so for those who maybe have concerns with having elevated blood sugar, those who are, you know, diagnosed with diabetes or metabolic syndrome, having Vitamin B6 on board can certainly be incredibly helpful.† [00:10:24]

[00:10:25] Now, there was a study that was done over in Europe and it was published in the Endocrine Metabolism Immune Journal, where they talked about how Vitamin B6 had antihyperlipidemic, which means if you have high cholesterol and you took B6, the B6 helped to lower that cholesterol. But they also were able to show how Vitamin B6 helped to protect the liver. So it was a really interesting study the way that they designed this. And they were looking at how the effect of dietary supplementation with Vitamin B6, this essential cofactor for all of these different enzymes that participate in your cholesterol metabolism, how when you take Vitamin B6, this helped in terms of activating the way that cholesterol is transported. And at the end of the day, it really helped to support a healthier cholesterol profile.† [00:11:21]

[00:11:22] So many different uses when it comes to Vitamin B6. If you’re not exactly sure if you are a candidate for taking Vitamin B6, and if you do take it, how much should you take, then I would certainly advise that you speak with one of our healthcare experts. Remember, they are there to help you help yourself navigate through this, and we understand that when it comes to supplementation, this can be incredibly overwhelming. So definitely take advantage of speaking to one of them. They can help guide you through this process and make sure that the nutrients you are taking are the most supportive for your overall wellness.† [00:12:01]

[00:12:02] So thank you so much for tuning in to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast. Remember, you can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts or by visiting invitehealth.com/podcast. Now, do make sure that you subscribe and you leave us a review. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and we will see you next time for another episode of the InViteⓇ Health Podcast.† [00:12:02]