Maybe taking the fish oil with the calcium would balance things out?

has anti-inflammatory actions, and also provides the fats to repair nerve
myelin sheaths. It raises HDLs and is good for the skin, cardiovascular system, prevents depression.

I just found a bottle of Evening Primrose Oil. It's still good.

Can I take that, plus the fish oil, plus the METHYL B???

My god, I can open up my own vitamin store!!!

Melody

been studied in diabetics as useful. I find high dose to be very laxative however, so start with lower doses.

I never have a problem with fish oil however, and I am very sensitive to laxatives. So everyone is different.

Take the oils with food, and the methyl B12 on empty stomach. B12 needs no competitors in the GI tract for best absorption (since it is in microgram amounts)

The oils are basically food..unless you get carried away and take tons of them.

I have a question. I have been reading about how B-12 is given in micrograms and if you take, for example 1000 micrograms, you are only absorbing (well, I forget the exact amount) but you are not absorbing 1000 micrograms. I also read that in Europe, they treat people with 36,000 micrograms A DAY!!

If this is true, how come the makers of B-12 either methyl, or cyano, only put 50 or 60 mcgs? I don't understand.

Why isn't there more 1000 mcgs in bottles (even if it's cyano or the other one, there's a third B-12, not cyano and not B-12, it's a long name. What is the difference by the way?

Also and here's the big question. Why don't they make a B-12 pill that has 1 mg?? Maybe they do??????

thanks for any info

Melody

Ahhh! OK, I'll be adding that then too!

Maybe I can help a little bit – As you know from Rose’s B12 site and many posts throughout the forum Vitamin B12 has multiple forms including cyano-, hydroxo-, adenosyl- or 5’-deoxyadenosyl-, and methylcobalamin. The liver does not convert sufficient amounts of cyanocobalamin (the most common form) to therapeutically useful levels of methylcobalamin, the active form found in the CNS. Among the many benefits of methylcobalamin it helps lower plasma levels of homocysteine (Hcy) and is also key for the synthesis of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and it is critical for nerve health, repair, and regeneration. Up to ~90% of methylcobalamin can be absorbed when taken sublingually although absorption also depends on levels of your intrinsic co-factor as well. I'll let other forum members more well versed than I am elaborate further.

As to your ? ~1mg B12 pills - I think that since the daily requirements are listed as mcg the suppliers list the strengths in mcg as well. However, the conversions are very easy and should help somewhat
1000ug or mcg (microgram) = 1mg (miligram)
1000mg = 1g (gram)
1000g = 1Kg (kilogram)
1000Kg = 1MT (metric tonne) - a lot
You can really get carried away with this since
1000pcg (picogram) = 1ng
1000ng (nanogram) = 1ug or mcg

Hope this helps not hinders.
Alkymst

Alkymst:

Wow, nano grams. I don't think I'll ever be taking that!!!!

I do thank you for the chemistry lesson. Reminds me of when I was in high school and the nun in the front of the room asked a question about sulfur dioxide and I opened my mouth and said something out loud and she said (and she never even turned around from the blackboard), she said: "will the idiot who just shouted out that answer sit down and shut up".

I never forgot that.

lol
Melody