Vitamins are a general term and contain many kinds, which can maintain the normal physiological functions of human body and are important trace organic substances necessary for human body. However, human body cannot synthesize them voluntarily, and they are usually obtained from food or vitamin buccal tablets.
Speaking of vitamins, people are generally familiar with vitamin C and eat one from time to time. However, vitamin B 12 is often ignored. But in fact, don't underestimate vitamin B 12, its function and value may exceed your imagination. Next, let the doctor tell you what role vitamin B 12 will play in the human body.
Vitamin B 12, also known as cobalamin, is a B vitamin, which is formed by porphyrin compounds containing cobalt. The first discovery was a red crystalline substance separated from the liver by scientists after a long period of research, and it was found to have an anti-anemia effect, so it was further studied and named vitamin B 12. So what is the function and function of vitamin B 12? Then look down.
Vitamin B 12 also has the following main functions:
It is helpful to the development and maturity of red blood cells, maintain the normal hematopoietic function of human body, prevent pernicious anemia, and then maintain human nervous system;
It exists in human body in the form of coenzyme, which improves the utilization rate of folic acid and accelerates the metabolism of carbohydrates, protein and other substances;
It can activate amino acids and accelerate the synthesis of nucleic acids and protein, which is very important for the growth and development of infants.
It can relieve irritability, keep concentration, improve memory and balance, that is, it can improve brain metabolism and make the brain develop in a good direction.
As can be seen from the above, the value of vitamin B 12 is not less than that of vitamin C, but it is not as "famous" as vitamin C, which is often overlooked. If people lack vitamin B 12 for a long time, they will feel unwell, which will lead to irreparable consequences over time. Therefore, everyone must be careful. If the body has the following abnormalities, it may be a lack of vitamin B 12.
1, nervous system abnormality
Vitamin B 12 is an important vitamin for maintaining human nervous system. If vitamin B 12 is lacking, it is very likely to cause demyelination at the back of the spinal cord. Myelin is a protective film outside nerve cells, just like people need to wear clothes to cover themselves, it can protect nerve tissue and prevent nerve tissue from being hurt.
After spinal cord injury, the most common manifestations are sensory ataxia and sensory disturbance of extremities, which may be accompanied by spastic paralysis of lower limbs. If these symptoms appear in daily life and cannot be explained by other diseases, we must be alert to the lack of vitamin B 12.
2, loss of appetite
If you feel that you need less food recently, you have no appetite for anything, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. In addition to excluding other gastrointestinal diseases that cause this symptom, you should be careful, which may be caused by the lack of vitamin B 12.
In addition, long-term lack of vitamin B 12 may also bring oral diseases such as Hunter's glossitis and stomatitis, and indirectly affect the function of digestive system, leading to loss of appetite.
Many people think that loss of appetite is not a big problem. Poor appetite can be used to lose weight. However, if a person's long-term loss of appetite leads to irregular diet, it may lead to gastroenteritis, gastrointestinal spasm and other diseases in the long run. Therefore, don't take loss of appetite seriously, and you will have a big problem if you are not careful.
3, chest tightness, palpitations, dizziness
Vitamin B 12 was first discovered in the study of pernicious anemia. Therefore, once the human body lacks vitamin B 12, it may induce chronic anemia. During anemia, the tissues and organs of the human body can't get normal nutrition supply, especially the heart and brain. Once lack of oxygen, there will be chest tightness, palpitation, dizziness and other symptoms.
For people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, long-term lack of vitamin B 12 will aggravate the condition and may eventually threaten life safety.
4. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is one of the most common chronic complications of diabetes. Generally speaking, when blood sugar is not well controlled, it is likely to be induced. However, it is clinically found that if the diabetic population lacks vitamin B 12, the probability of diabetic peripheral neuropathy will greatly increase.
If it is not supplemented in time, it is easy to appear numbness at the end of limbs, which is typically characterized by glove or sock-like feeling and may be accompanied by pain. Therefore, diabetic patients must pay attention to the fact that if peripheral neuropathy occurs under the condition of good blood sugar control, they should also think that it may be the lack of vitamin B 12.
After the above analysis, we will find out how important a small bottle of vitamin B 12 is. Without it, unexpected abnormalities may occur in the body. So what is remarkable about vitamin B 12 in treating diseases?
If you lack vitamin B 12 for a long time, you may feel uncomfortable. Then, if the following four diseases appear, timely supplementation of vitamin B 12 will have a certain improvement effect. You can take a closer look and hope it will help you.
? Relieve oral ulcer
Oral ulcer is a common problem in people's lives, and the pain and inconvenience caused by oral ulcer are miserable. Oral ulcer is actually an oral mucosal disease, mainly a disease in which the normal color, shape, integrity and function of a certain part of oral mucosa have changed. Many people think that oral ulcer is caused by excessive internal heat, but it is not just as simple as excessive internal heat.
If people often have symptoms of oral ulcer, it may be a lack of vitamin B 12, so vitamin B 12 supplementation can play an auxiliary role in the treatment of oral ulcer.
Vitamin B 12 buccal tablets can be used for oral ulcer or pounded into powder. After absorption, the human body will accelerate the metabolism of mucous membranes, thus accelerating the healing of ulcers. Local application can also protect the surface of damaged mucosa, isolate irritation, and reduce the risk of pain and infection to some extent.
? Improve gastrointestinal diseases and promote digestion.
With the improvement of people's living standards, people always like to eat some greasy and unhealthy food. In the long run, the burden of gastrointestinal tract will become heavier and heavier, and the root cause-gastritis will slowly fall.
Food can't be digested and absorbed in time, and human metabolism slows down, which has a bad influence on the body. Vitamin B 12 has a certain curative effect on gastritis, especially erosive gastritis, and it has a good therapeutic effect when combined with omeprazole capsules.
Therefore, friends with stomach problems can choose to take a vitamin B 12 at breakfast to promote the digestion and absorption of food.
? Prevention of megaloblastic anemia
Megaloblastic anemia is caused by the disorder of DNA synthesis. Vitamin B 12 is involved in the transformation and utilization of basic substances such as protein, fat and sugar in the body, which mainly promotes the maturation of red blood cells in hematopoietic system and participates in DNA synthesis. Therefore, vitamin B 12 supplementation can prevent megaloblastic anemia.
Generally, people who have undergone gastrectomy or taken antiepileptic drugs for a long time will affect the absorption of vitamin B 12 and are more prone to megaloblastic anemia, so we must pay attention to supplementing vitamin B 12. These people had better take vitamin B 12 buccal tablets or eat some foods rich in vitamin B 12, such as beef and pig liver, under the condition of strengthening nutrition and reasonable diet, so as to ensure that they can get enough vitamin B 12 every day.
? Improve menstrual disorder
Menstruation is an important indicator of women's health. Under normal circumstances, women's menstruation will appear normally every month, but now most women have emotional anxiety due to pressure from the workplace and family, leading to endocrine system disorder. Today, 80% of women have menstrual disorders.
As an important neurotrophic factor, vitamin B 12 can help to regulate human endocrine, improve emotional anxiety caused by hormonal changes, strengthen the spirit, and solve the bad emotions caused by depression and stress from within the body.
Of course, vitamin B 12 can help improve the above four diseases, but it is not the main treatment, but only an auxiliary way. What the doctor wants to say is that the nutritional value of vitamin B 12 is very high, so don't ignore the benefits it can bring to the body.
However, people should not take vitamin B 12 blindly and excessively just because it has a good effect. Excessive supplementation may have the opposite effect. According to the research of China Nutrition Society, for ordinary adults, the body only needs about three micrograms of vitamin B 12 every day.
Generally speaking, vitamin B 12 has a high nutritional value and can help us solve some minor physiological problems, but we should not take it at will. If there is no shortage of vitamin B 12 in the body, the doctor suggests that it is not necessary to take it.