Let’s look at typical B12 Deficiency Symptoms — Do you suffer from any of these?
- Fatigue, tiredness, or light-headedness
- Rapid heartbeat or difficulty breathing
- Poor memory or difficulty concentrating
- Numbness and tingling of hands or feet
- Difficulty with balance, poor coordination
- Pale skin
- Sore tongue
- Easy bruising or bleeding gums
- Upset stomach
- Unexplainable weight loss
- Depression, irritability, paranoia, mania, hallucinations
Here’s how I came across this:
The past two weeks I noticed that my tongue felt quite sore, but I didn’t think anything of it because I had just bought a tongue scraper (yes, there is such a thing, and if you haven’t got one I strongly recommend you get one, because it’s a really important weapon in the fight against oral thrush, and much more hygienic and effective than using a toothbrush to clean your tongue).
I developed a sore throat and despite my attempts at getting rid of it with natural remedies like gargling with sage tea I couldn’t shake it off. So I thought it might have to do with the fact that I was under a lot of stress and perhaps my adrenals were struggling so I started taking adrenal support supplements. But the sore tongue remained, and I even developed a burning sensation in my stomach. I thought this was weird, because I never have any stomach issues, ever!
I wondered if I had been eating too much protein from meat, and therefore too acidic. But when I switched to a more alkaline diet the symptoms remained, and I felt progressively agitated. So I went through my food diary again because I remembered that I had these issues before at the beginning of my Candida journey, and low and behold I could find the entries that showed me the identical symptoms and how I got rid of it in the end.
As it turned out it was a simple matter of taking Vitamin B supplements and getting a few nights of decent sleep
Stop burning the candle on both ends – get plenty of rest and sleep and don’t despair when you hit a plateau in your healing. You’re doing fine
There might just be an imbalance that has ripple effects on other areas I your body and health. Also, see if you can start a food journal to trace back what foods might not agree with you as well as you might think.
These are natural food sources for B12: Beef liver and clams, fish, meat, poultry, eggs, milk, and other dairy products.
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