a section devoted to NOW company, would have it. Otherwise you have to
go online to purchase it.

example:
This is the one I use.
http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails....1&pid=740&at=0
reasonably priced and enteric coated.

I have a B6 information thread here:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ad.php?t=30724

One has to realize that if you are ending up HERE or at other forums
with "problems" that errors involving nutrients should be looked at
thoroughly. There are just too many man-made (from drugs) and genetic
things that go wrong that affect our health and quality of life.

For example the beta-carotene data and lung cancer. After that first set of reports to use antioxidants for cancer, failed, other studies were done, showing that antioxidants need to be taken TOGETHER...that they hand off free radicals to each other as a team. Isolating them and using only one (like betacarotene) creates an artificial situation in the body, that does not occur in nature.

And there are many studies now showing folic acid works better in the body when taken as a supplement, rather than from food. Folate is easily damaged by heat and microwave and lost from vegetables.

When people fail with B12... I'd suggest you look at folate too. The methylation failures include folic acid. The folinic acid now available would be an alternative for those patients.
http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails....&pid=7735&at=0


The superior methylfolate which up until recently was available OTC for pennies a tablet was made by Merck. They decided to stop selling it to vitamin manufacturers so they could make MORE money on the RX versions. Pure Greed! Another example of drug companies taking choices away from individuals. Metanx the RX mixture of methylB12, methylfolate and P5P is RX only.

I would like to add --- that the understanding of B6 toxicity is rather skewed by doctors. The actual events published were for huge
megadoses--in the GRAM range used for a long period of time, and only the un-activated pyridoxine form. I believe the actual papers add up to about 20 individuals over time. Doctors have seized upon this and skewed it into a "common" event, at low doses.
What is really happening I think is that pyridoxine is not being converted to active P5P normally in some people, and hence they are actually LOW in active B6. If you compare dangerous events with NSAIDs --drugs commonly used in this country--- you will find
average numbers of injury or death in the 40,000 per YEAR in USA (this is a combined figure of injury + death)! Yet doctors don't even blink when they write out Rxs for
Naprosyn or Motrin.

For example on one list there were 7600 deaths from NSAIDs reported for one year alone.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
This article predicts MORE:
http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/20...1/fennerty.htm

So the B6 data is minute compared to drug statistics!
You can print out my B6 thread linked to above, and give it to your doctor. I have papers there from PubMed Medline.
I would expect blank looks from doctors about P5P....they don't know anything about vitamins or how the body
uses them or converts them for use.

A good example from the Reader's Digest article is a skewed comment that zinc interferes with blood pressure medications.
Here is an accurate list of what zinc may interact with:
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/zinc-000999.htm
You can see that listing blood pressure in the Reader's Digest format is inaccurate, since zinc is LOST in people taking ACE inhibitors.
The word interact....can be confusing since people assume a negative. Zinc does not negate ACE inhibitor function, it just makes zinc unavailable to the patient for necessary use. So general articles like the Reader's Digest can be misleading.
Also zinc does NOT weaken the immune system...quite the opposite-- in fact so that is very wrong.

The only benefit I see in articles like this is recommending caution, and finding out correct information before embarking on using
supplements, esp in high doses. That is why I am here, on NT!