B Is for Balance: How Much Vitamin B Complex Do Adults Need

B Is for Balance: How Much Vitamin B Complex Do Adults Need

The nerves, albeit small and difficult to see with the naked eye, can play big roles in maintaining your overall health. Found all over the body by way of the nervous system, the nerves are like cables that transmit signals between the brain and other muscles and organs.

If you are a working adult, it is important to keep your nerves in tiptop shape since these can help you move freely, use your senses effectively, control your reflexes, and over time reduce your risk for unwanted ngalay, manhid, and tusok-tusok.1

For many years, health experts emphasized the importance of vitamin B complex in improving the health of the body’s nerves, especially those belonging to working adults.

Now is the right time to Be more mindful of your health and take care of all-important nerves. Refresh your memory, learn more about the key B vitamins for nerve health, and take note of suggested vitamin B complex dosages.

Top Three Key B Vitamins to Consider

There are eight (8) B vitamins altogether, with each of them analyzed for their various functions in human health. While research for these vitamins has yielded positive results, three B vitamins stand out due to their ability to provide benefits for working adults, especially with daily intake.

  1. Vitamin B1 or Thiamine

    Vitamin B1 is known to help:
    • Metabolize carbohydrates2 and glucose needed by nerve cells for energy.3
    • Synthesize fatty acids, nucleic acids,4 and myelin,5 a layer surrounding the nerves in the brain and spinal cord.6
    • Maintain the structure4 and function of cellular membranes.
    • Shield nerves against harmful oxidative damage with the help of its antioxidant properties.2
    • Create adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule that assists with energy transport within cells.72.
  2. Vitamin B6

    This B vitamin is critical to nerve function because of its ability to act as cofactors of enzymes that help:4,5,8
    • Metabolize amino acids and lipids.
    • Produce niacin from tryptophan.
    • Encourage hormone action.
    • Synthesize myelin, neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, GABA, and noradrenaline, as well as the hormone melatonin.3.
  3. Vitamin B12 or Cobalamin

    According to researchers, vitamin B12 may assist with:
    • Nerve regeneration.
    • Nerve cell survival.
    • Maintenance of myelin.2
    • Synthesis of important substances like DNA, RNA, hormones, proteins, and lipids.3

How Much of These B Vitamins Do People Need Daily

Now that you have an inkling of the key benefits of these three B vitamins, here is a breakdown of the daily values certain groups of adults will need each day,9 as well as food sources that contain good amounts of these nutrients:

  Males 19 years and older Females 19 years and older Pregnant women Lactating or breastfeeding women Top food choices
Vitamin B1 1.2 mg 1.1 mg +0.3 mg of daily dose +0.2 mg of daily dose Pork, fish, beans, lentils, green peas, sunflower seeds, yogurt10
Vitamin B6
  • 1.3 mg for adults 19 to 49 years old
  • 1.7 mg for males 50 years and older
  • 1.6 mg for females 50 years and older
+0.6 mg of daily dose +0.7 mg of daily dose Fortified cereals, beef liver, tuna, salmon, chickpeas, poultry like chicken, dark leafy green vegetables, oranges, papayas, bananas, and cantaloupe11
Vitamin B12 2.4 mcg +0.2 mg of daily dose +0.5 mg of daily dose Beef (liver or ground beef), clams, oysters, salmon, tuna, plain yogurt, eggs, bananas, strawberries, and spinach12

 

Be Pharex-cited Daily With the Help of This Supplement

Although a daily diet composed of vitamin B complex-rich food choices is your best source of these nutrients, there may be instances when you cannot meet your daily requirements.

Not getting enough B vitamins daily can significantly impact your routines, affect your working ways, and even increase your risk for nerve pain and its symptoms like ngalay, manhid, and tusok-tusok.

Make sure your body meets its daily nerve vitamin requirements so you can keep on hustling with the help of a vitamin B complex supplement like Vitamin B1+B6+B12 (Pharex® B-Complex)!

With 100 mg of vitamin B1, 5 mg of vitamin B6, and 50 mcg of vitamin B12, this vitamin B complex dosage is suitable for daily intake and will help your body get the right amount of B vitamins needed to maintain nerve health, alongside proper diet and exercise.

Ultimately, the B vitamins in Pharex® B-Complex may assist you in preventing three signs of nerve pain in the form of ngalay, manhid, and tusok-tusok, and help lower the risk for deficiencies linked to these nutrients.

Suggested use of Pharex® B-Complex is one (1) to two (2) tablets daily or as prescribed by your doctor.

Pharex® B-Complex is available in leading drugstores and pharmacies nationwide and online via Lazada and Shopee at a suggested retail price (SRP) of Php5.45.

If symptoms persist, consult your doctor.

Reference

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  • 12 Vitamin B12 fact sheet for health professionals. (2024, March 26). National Institutes f Health Office of Dietary Supplements. Retrieved July 8, 2024, from Read more about this article...

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