Perfect Health Diet by Paul Jaminet

Author:Paul Jaminet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

Although there are few documented benefits to healthy people from B vitamin supplementation, high-dose B vitamins are therapeutic for some diseases. Here are a few instances:

• Thiamin reversed microalbuminuria in diabetics in a clinical trial.6

• Riboflavin reduced the frequency of migraines in a clinical trial.7

• Biotin and thiamin produced “spectacular clinical and radiologic improvement” in two patients with brain disorders.8

Our Recommendation

The low toxicity of these vitamins means that they are safe to supplement. As deficiencies are dangerous and may possibly occur even on a whole foods diet, we think it’s prudent to supplement these—but not every day.

We suggest taking a B-50 complex, 500 milligrams of pantothenic acid or pantethine, 5 milligrams of biotin, and 500 micrograms of vitamin B12 once per week. A B-50 complex contains 400 micrograms of folic acid, 50 micrograms of biotin, 50 micrograms of vitamin B12, and 50 milligrams of the other B vitamins.

Averaged over the week, these doses provide significantly more than the RDA and more than multivitamin doses for all but niacin and folic acid. Since deficiencies take longer than a week to develop, this will eliminate deficiency risk.

SCIENCE OF THE PHD

Why Weekly Supplementation May Be Best

The human body has sufficient stores of micronutrients to last a week or more. It doesn’t need most micronutrients to be provided every day.

Microbes have much shorter life spans and need to be nourished more regularly.

Supplying nutrients intermittently on a schedule that works for humans can starve microbes long enough that they become vulnerable to the immune system or lose their ability to suppress immune defenses.

Bacteria and other microbes are dependent mainly on B vitamins. Thus, supplying B vitamins once a week may be optimal. Human cells can take up what they need, the remainder will depart in urine, and for most of the week bacteria will have low levels of B vitamins available to them.

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