The Importance of B Vitamins:
B Vitamins are essential to maintaining good health and preventing illness. B Vitamins help eyesight: Vitamin B has been found to be protective against blindness in cases of macular degeneration amongst women, mainly the folic acid, pyridoxine and cyanocobalamin groups of B Vitamins. Vitamin B helps to protect against candida overgrowth in the digestive tract, which helps protect against yeast infections. Vitamin B is important for hair growth and for healthy skin. Vitamin B counteracts stress, which helps us to keep a stable emotional state, avert depression, and get a good night’s sleep.
B Vitamins have been found to be protective against many other diseases. In fact, B vitamins are essential to good health.
B Vitamins are found in many foods: It is useful to know what B vitamins are found in what foods, as some specific B vitamins are needed to combat certain conditions in the body.
This is not a complete list of natural sources of B vitamins, but it will give you an idea as to the main groups of B vitamins necessary, and the ones which are most commonly deficient. Then you can choose your foods appropriately, so that you create a good balance of all the necessary Vitamins and Minerals in your diet.
All the B Vitamins are necessary to good health, but there are some which we must ensure we do not become deficient in. The two of the most commonly deficient, but important, B Vitamins are Vitamin B 12, and Vitamin B 6.
Sources of Vitamin B 12, or Cobalamin: Vitamin B 12 is commonly deficient in vegetarians, or people who do not eat a lot of meat, fish, eggs, or dairy products.
Liver is the richest source of Vitamin B 12, or Pyridoxine:
Liver is rich in Vitamin B 12, B 6, and also in the other range of B Vitamins. Celiacs and others whose digestion is poor are often deficient in Vitamin B 12. Deficiency of this vitamin can cause anaemia-type symptoms. If you are able to eat meat, then eating some liver once a week will help to restore your vitamin B 12 levels, as well as increase your iron blood count.
Sources of Vitamin B 6, Pyrodioxine: Vitamin B 6 is important to keep the mental process alive and well, apart from other physical conditions. Deficiency of Vitamin B 6 is common amongst celiacs, people with poor digestion, and vegetarians. Deficiency of Vitamin B 6 can cause serious depression.
Vitamin B 6 is found in liver, red meats, chicken and fish. It can also be obtained from vegetable sources such as green beans and bananas. Other vegetable sources of Vitamin B 6 are wheatgerm, whole grains and pulses. Brewer’s yeast is another rich source of Vitamin B6.
Home Made Calves Liver Broth for Vitamin B Complex, including Vitamin B 12 and B6. Of course, this will not help those people who do not eat meat, but the home made calf liver broth is an excellent way of providing B Vitamins to a malnourished or sick body which cannot digest meat and heavy foods. This broth is used in many cancer therapies and in healing other disease, as it is full of enzymes which help disgestion, as well as the B Vitamins. It is a wonderful recuperative medicine.
- To Make the Broth: Cut up a quantity of calves liver – enough to about half fill an agee jar, or a two pint jar. Cover the liver with water. Put on the lid.
- Now find a six inch deep saucepan. Put a folded piece of cotton or woolen cloth onto the bottom, It should be a thick wad to protect the glass from cracking, which could occur otherwise, as the saucepan is going to be left on the stove for several hours.
- Put your two pint jar onto the cloth.
- Now three quater fill the saucepan which has the jar in with WARM water. The water level should be a little above the level of the liver in the jar.
- Now put the the saucepan on the stove. Turn the heat up to medium until the water comes to the boil, then reduce the heat so that the water is very gently simmering. The lower the temperature you use, the more nutrients and enzymes there will be in the end result, including vitamin B12 and B6
- Simmer from two to three hours. Take off the heat. Let cool, then press the juice out of the liver. Store in the fridge in an air tight jar, and sip several teaspoons of the tonic throughout each day. It is good to use a teaspoonful before each meal, as this aids digestion. It is very good for debilitated people, or people with cancer.
to be continued this afternoon – going out for a touch of Vitamin D whilst the sun is still shining.