Vitamin B6 Pyridoxin ital for Brain function, and Anti-inflammatory effects By Dr. James Meschino, DC, MS, ND Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) is vital for brain function and has tremendous anti-inflammatory effects. Pyridoxine or Vitamin B6 has many important functions in the body. Let me review some of those for you. • It's important for the formation of hemoglobin which carries oxygen in your red blood cells. • It is important to make anti-inflammatory hormones called prostaglandins that suppress the inflammatory process in the body. • Is required to make the myelin sheath which insulates many of the nerve cells in the body. • It also augments immune system function. Vitamin B6 deficiency is characterized by depression, like mental depression, also impaired use of blood sugar glucose intolerance because you need Vitamin B6 to release glucose from the liver into the bloodstream. Also B6 deficiency often shows up as a certain type of anemia, so your red blood cell changes in shape and number. You also see impaired nerve function, resulting in numbness into the hands and feet and altered mobility, you can't function normally. Certain cracks in the lips, in the tongue can be a sign of Vitamin B6 deficiency, as well as flare-ups of seborrhoea or eczema. Supplementation studies show the Vitamin B is very helpful in suppressing certain inflammatory conditions especially when used with the right essential fatty acid supplements. B6 also lowers blood chemical known as homocysteine. When homocysteine rises, it increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. So keeping homocysteine level down is very desirable. Vitamin B6 does that, as well as folic acid and Vitamin B12. So there three B Vitamins work together to help reduce the risk of vascular disease by keeping homocysteine level down. Vitamin B6 deficiency also is responsible for some diabetic neuropathy problems. They have been used to help treat diabetic neuropathy and improve the outcomes. Also, B6 supplementation with magnesium has been shown to prevent the recurrence of kidney stones. So it's important to know how much Vitamin B6 to take because if you take too much B6 you can actually cause very serious nerve damage. So you should click on the link below, read my article and they will show you how to ingest the exact amount of B6 to get the optimal amount for you and how to use B6 supplementation in the management of various health conditions, how to do it safely and effectively. Now on www.meschinohealth.com , you’ll see my other research review papers; you will see footage of my live professional seminars. You can download resource that I've created. They are all there to help you live a long healthy functional life. On my teaching materials and review papers have all the scientific references in them so you'll know you getting only sound scientific information from me on any health topic that you looking for. So you should make www.meschinohealth.com an ongoing reliable resource of health and wellness information for both, you and your family.