Vitamin B12 for your heart

Stuttering, racing or palpitations are symptoms that one in five people in Germany has experienced at least once (1). The overarching term for this is cardiac arrhythmia.

What are the causes, how can it be treated early and how does vitamin B12 help? That’s what this article is about.

Vitamin B12 is one of the most important vitamins for us. Without vitamin B12, there is no cell division, no growth, no red blood cells and no functioning nervous system.

Where B12 comes from: Vitamin B12 is produced by the bacterial flora in the digestive tract and is therefore only found in animal products: especially meat, fish and dairy products. You must eat it every day.

One thing in advance: taking B12 alone is not enough to get rid of your symptoms. B12 is only useful in combination with other vital substances.

How can vitamin B12 support your heart?

Vitamin B12 contributes to energy metabolism, reduction of fatigue, immune and nervous system function. You can see that this is a very important vitamin.

If the vitamin B12 level is too low, homocysteine cannot be completely broken down in the body and vascular damage occurs in the long term. Homocysteine is a substance that occurs in the body. High levels of homocysteine in the blood can damage blood vessels and the brain and are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and depression. For the detoxification of homocysteine, the body needs, among other things, vitamin B12.

The consequences can be heart disease.

Good to know: The German Nutrition Society has increased the recommendation for daily intake of vitamin B12 from 3.0 to 4.0 micrograms.*

This shows how serious even the large institutions, which often take longer to implement, are about providing a good supply of B12.

Unfortunately, vitamin B12 absorption from food is often prone to disruption, so supplementation makes sense.

In Germany, in fact, 33! Millions of people with the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori infected. Some feel nothing, others have heartburn because the bacterium increases the secretion of gastric acid. The bacterium can lead to gastritis. Scientists have found that infection with
Helicobacter pylori
can lead to vitamin B12 deficiency. 2, 3

This problem unfortunately increases with age.

Everything in the body interlocks - B12 alone does not work

Like all substances that the body needs, it is also the case with B12 that its optimal functioning again depends on other substances. Here are two examples:

If you are low in B12, one of the reasons may be that you are also low in B6 – because a B6 deficiency worsens the body’s ability to absorb B12
If you have too little B12, there is a high risk of folic acid deficiency because the normal functioning of folic acid metabolism depends on vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 and folic acid work together in the bone marrow on your blood formation. Too few red blood cells means chronic fatigue. ¹

You guessed it: these two examples are not the only ones that depend on B12 and the mentioned affected substances (folic acid, B6) have for themselves again different dependencies of other vital substances. So, most of the time, a deficiency of a substance is an indication that you need to supplement all together.

* D-A-CH reference values for nutrient intake; data for adults, according to DGE e. V.;
https://www.dge.de/wissenschaft/referenzwerte

1 Kantar Health survey 2015 commissioned by Trommsdorff Arzneimittel.

2 Kaptan K, Beyan C, Ural AU, et al. Helicobacter pylori–is it a novel causative agent in vitamin B12 deficiency? Arch Intern Med. 2000;160(9):1349-1353.

3 Xia Y, Meng G, Zhang Q, et al. Dietary Patterns are Associated with Helicobacter Pylori Infection in Chinese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study. Sci Rep. 2016;6:32334.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17052662/

The better choice

You see: Vitamin B12 can do a lot of good for your body. Even more so if you combine it intelligently and ensure that it can be optimally absorbed by the body.

The good news is that you don’t need any cumbersome vitamin B12 injections. The intake in combination with other vital substances is completely sufficient as studies show.

Taking a high-quality, high-dose multivitamin ensures that. We recommend our Viptamin Komplett Forte, because it provides your body with 57 vital substances everything it needs.