Hello,
I was on a protocol of B1, R5P, Niacinamide, P5P, Trace minerals, B12, Lithium and started noticing some strange things:
- My cobalt dropped to 0 on my hair analysis (it was normal before I started any supplements)
- My homocysteine was high and dropped a little bit, but my cysteine/cystathionine/taurine all dropped, so I assume the homocysteine was going back to methionine
- My serum folate levels dropped (from what I've read serum folate is mostly methylated folate), I stopped all supplements many months ago and yet my folate levels haven't returned to their normal level, the colbalt is still low on hair analysis as well
- My oxidative stress markers are high, since my cysteine is low/taurine is high and i'm very deficient in functional B6 but find P5P makes my symptoms worse (I believe my CBS is heavily upregulated already and B6 makes this worse?
- My Vit C, E and D are all low but I wasn't taking these at the time
- Manganese dropped while on the protocol (assume this was the B2), but is manganese lower to compensate for oxidative stress?)
- My blood levels of P5P were high for a period while I was on this protocol, and when I had it tested I was off the P5P for a few weeks so it's as though the B2 was depleting/inactivating my B6, a few months after I had my P5P tested and was back to normal
- I'm low in magnesium but have issues tolerating many forms
- Molybdenum, lithium are low in blood tests
- SAMe, CoQ10 (and assume carnitine) are low
Can anyone make sense of whats going on? I tried to start methylation but seemed to have made things worse, assuming because I took the wrong nutrients but now I don't know how to get things moving in the right direction.
Thanks
I was on a protocol of B1, R5P, Niacinamide, P5P, Trace minerals, B12, Lithium and started noticing some strange things:
- My cobalt dropped to 0 on my hair analysis (it was normal before I started any supplements)
- My homocysteine was high and dropped a little bit, but my cysteine/cystathionine/taurine all dropped, so I assume the homocysteine was going back to methionine
- My serum folate levels dropped (from what I've read serum folate is mostly methylated folate), I stopped all supplements many months ago and yet my folate levels haven't returned to their normal level, the colbalt is still low on hair analysis as well
- My oxidative stress markers are high, since my cysteine is low/taurine is high and i'm very deficient in functional B6 but find P5P makes my symptoms worse (I believe my CBS is heavily upregulated already and B6 makes this worse?
- My Vit C, E and D are all low but I wasn't taking these at the time
- Manganese dropped while on the protocol (assume this was the B2), but is manganese lower to compensate for oxidative stress?)
- My blood levels of P5P were high for a period while I was on this protocol, and when I had it tested I was off the P5P for a few weeks so it's as though the B2 was depleting/inactivating my B6, a few months after I had my P5P tested and was back to normal
- I'm low in magnesium but have issues tolerating many forms
- Molybdenum, lithium are low in blood tests
- SAMe, CoQ10 (and assume carnitine) are low
Can anyone make sense of whats going on? I tried to start methylation but seemed to have made things worse, assuming because I took the wrong nutrients but now I don't know how to get things moving in the right direction.
Thanks