Posted by
Marc Martin on
Feb 02, 2005; 7:50pm
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/sleep-disorder-and-bitter-taste-in-the-mouth-tp1537891p1537903.html
> Vitamin B-12 injections have been very helpful to my husband. Taking
> B-12 in pill form did not have an effect.
Yes, but which brand did you use? :-)
As a result of trying lots and lots of supplements and seeing
various practitioners, I've come to the conclusion that there
are different types of supplements:
1) the supplements sold in mainstream grocery stores, which
are probably worthless
2) the supplements sold in health food stores, which are
sometimes okay, but in too many cases are also worthless
3) the supplements sold by multi-level marketing companies,
which are too expensive and sometimes difficult to get,
but are usually pretty good.
4) the supplements sold by health professionals (chiropracters,
alternative medicine practioners), which are usually
pretty good, but are difficult to get.
I personally only seem to have a reaction to "natural" supplements
-- that is, supplements that are close to their food forms.
Chemical forms of vitamins or rock-derived minerals have
no beneficial effect for me.
So, when you say that B12 pills have no effect, I assume you
mean that some artificial form of B12 has no effect. It
would be interesting to see how he did using a natural B12
supplement. For example, Standard Process makes a product
called "Cataplex B12". I think Standard Process makes the
most effective supplements (overall) of any company, because
most everything they sell is natural.
For example, read what is written about Cataplex B12:
http://www.usaplaza.com/scripts/wcom_producttree.asp?StoreID=1340&ProductID=47309The problem with Standard Process is that the company does
not want its products sold over the Internet, or in stores.
They want a doctor to "prescribe" it to you. Fortunately
there are some ways around this. In my case, I have a local
pharmacy/dispensary that breaks this rule, and will sell
Standard Process supplements to anybody. Or, you can
find websites which break the rules. Once such site
is spinelife.com .
Another good thing about Standard Process is that their
supplements are pretty inexpensive.
Marc