Health Hotline Magazine | April 2020

VITAMINS FOR LIFE BY LINDSAY WILSON I’ve been writing about dietary supplements for a little more than a decade. Through those years of research, the supplements on my shelf have shifted, changed with the seasons, and come and gone, but there is one that I began taking in the beginning and still take 12 years later—a B-complex. Why? Because I like to have energy. Because I like to be in a good mood. Because I like to know I’m doing what I can to protect my neurological health. Because the B vitamins are vital for, well… life. all clinical symptoms of specific B-vitamin deficiencies). 1 It sounds pretty awful doesn’t it? Even with suboptimal levels, you may experience some of these symptoms. The B’s are water-soluble vitamins, which means our bodies don’t store them, so they must be replenished daily. There’s also a load of lifestyle factors that can deplete the B’s, including regular alcohol

intake, excessive caffeine, intense exercise, chronic stress, age, common medications, poor digestion, poor gut health, any disease state, eating too many refined sugars and starches, and following a strict vegetarian or vegan diet. In other words, if you are a human living in the modern world, you probably need to take a B-complex supplement.

Without the B’s we’d be a mess. We’d be chronically tired and have dementia-like symptoms, lose muscle mass and experience neurological problems, lose hair and have skin issues, suffer from diarrhea or constipation, depression, anemia, a weak immune system… you get the idea (these are

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