Vitamin B6 Cuts Colon Cancer Risk (High daily intake reduced odds by 58 percent)

Health Day News ^ | 5/6/05 | Kathleen Doheny

[Huck]

Intesting. Thanks.

[Mamzelle]

Gee, the article should have included what foods are high in B6.

[areafiftyone]

Sounds interesting BUT how long with it take before they have another study out saying: PEOPLE ARE AT RISK FOR HEART ATTACKS FOR TAKING TOO MUCH B6. Just like the did with Vitamin E and Vitamin A.

[kidd]

The vitamin can be sourced from multivitamins, fortified cereals, beans, meat, poultry, fish and some vegetables and fruits.

[G.Mason]

I can see it now ... BurgerKing special of the week.

Calves liver burger smothered in spinach with a large bell pepper juice, and a side of salmon croquettes.

[blackdog]

Pyridoxine(B6) is also useful to many of us to act as an insect repellant. DEET causes a neurological reaction in me and makes my brain swell(I was hospitalized as a result). I discovered that if you take a mega dose of B6 a few hours before exposing yourself to mosquitoes and other nasty bugs like ticks, they pass you up. B vitamins tend to sweat out and even mask the carbon dioxide in your breath, which is what most insects that bite home in on. It's how they find you.

[.38sw]

Thanks for pointing that out. Everytime I see some claim that high amounts of some vitamin can prevent something, it seems that the other side of that coin crops up later, and it's a BAD thing.

[areafiftyone]

The thing that people don't realize is that the vitamins we take everyday are really just man-made chemicals. How can chemicals be good for you? We really need to just get our vitamins from food and not from man-made chemicals. At least that is what I believe.

[Lil'freeper]

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Mmmmm.... meat and veggies.

[blackdog]

Vitamins E and A are fat soluble and not water soluble. (most forms that is)

All B vitamins and there's a bunch, are not those which accumulate in your system. They are passed right thru by your lungs, kidneys, and sweat. The fat solubles can build up in your system to toxic proportions. For example, one bite of a polar bear's liver contains enough vitamin A to kill a human. Most toxic minerals and vitamins accumulate in your liver. It's why chelation therapies work well in some people. Pass thru minerals like molybdenum will bind with copper or selenium etc....and take them out of your system because molybdenum gets a free pass right thru. If it's grabbed a few copper molecules on it's way, it detoxifies you.

[bmwcyle]

My mother was one of the first test cases to reattach the small intestine to the large intestine after the colon was removed. I'll be trying this also.

[areafiftyone]

For example, one bite of a polar bear's liver contains enough vitamin A to kill a human.

Jeeze remind me to skip the "Polar Bear" section of my meat department in my supermarket tomorrow! ;-)

[ExTexasRedhead]

Based on all the latest "fads," we will all be taking 20-30 pills a day consisting of some supplement or the other. Gee, what is it now, extra calcium, magnesium, folic acid, multi-vitamin, omegas, Vitamin E, Vitamin D and the list goes on. To sum it all up, I'm beginning to get confused as to how much of what we're supposed to have and is it good or is it bad based on today's study.

[Lil'freeper]

When you get right down to it, molecules are molecules. A man made molecule is the same as a naturally occurring molecule. However, many "vitamins" as they occur in food are really groups of similar molecules, or "complexes." The vitamins in the bottle tend to consist of only one part of the complex and too much of any one molecule can actually be toxic. Hence the warnings about overdosing on Vitamin A or Vitamin D or Vitamin E. Toxicity rarely occurs when the nutrients are derived from food because you are consuming the whole complex of compounds - all of which the body needs.

Vitamins in bottles are truly just supplements.

[areafiftyone]

I don't take vitamins and hardly ever did. Everytime I started taking more of a certain kind of vitamin because they said it prevented some kind of cancer or heart attack, within the next year I would see another study saying its not good for you and we should stop those levels. I got sick of it so I stopped taking vitamins and decided that food can give me just as much as I need and No more so I don't create toxins in my body.

[areafiftyone]

Hence the warnings about overdosing on Vitamin A or Vitamin D or Vitamin E. Toxicity rarely occurs when the nutrients are derived from food because you are consuming the whole complex of compounds - all of which the body needs.

True. Besides I love to eat so eating more of certain veggies or certain foods makes me happier! ;-)

[Investment Biker]

I take a daily dose of multivitamin, a separate dose of B complex (includes 55mgs of B6, about 30x the RDA), and 300mg of Benfotiamine (a naturally occurring fat soluble allithiamine B1). The Benfotiamine dose is about 128 times the recommended dose of B1. There are no know side effects even at larger dosing of Benfotiamine.

[since1868]

please ping me

[Lil'freeper]

Done!