Vitamin B lab results interpretation?

Thanks Simon, Interesting article on mthfr. My old naturopath suggested I get the 23 and me tests done and run the results through analysis. I resisted and did not. I don't want to find out I have genetic predisposition for some horrible incurable disease that will strike me down at a certain age. I've seen what got my parents and Grandparents in the end, just the usual stuff.

I thought I understood that the mthfr mutation may make detox difficult and require different forms of b vitamins. I've not really spent much time investigating it.

I've read that high b12 levels can indicate liver and other catastrophic diseases. Another source said that elevated b12 levels actually indicate b12 deficiency paradoxically. I don't know much beyond that. Thought somebody here might have dealt with it.

I don't think I have liver disease or any other catastrophic illness because ive had soooo many blood tests, CT scan, colonoscopy, and everything turns out unremarkable. I guess I can count my blessings.

So maybe I actually do have a b12 deficiency. This homocysteine supreme supplement my llmd gave me consists of various b vitamins.

Oh, and thanks for the graph formatting tip. Next time............

BeKindPls said...
Are you currently taking a B complex or a multi with B vitamins?

I'd been taking a multi, b complex, and 1000 mcg methyl b12 daily. My llmd said no need for the multi since I'm also taking c, d, e, vitamins and eating a well balanced diet. I recently quit the b complex as well, but probably after I had the blood drawn.

Llmd put me on "homocysteine supreme" which has b2, B6, Folate, b12, zinc, trimethyl glycine, choline dihydrogen citrate, serine, and nac.

The day of the test, I didn't take any vitamins before the blood draw fwiw.

Simon -

Apologies to you - I enjoy your posts.

But that article is ridiculous. I invite the authors and others involved in creating its folly and the researchers involved in the studies cited to have a short conversation with most Lyme patients on this forum, a parent of an autistc child who responded to treatment, one of our members whose Down syndrome sister suffered greatly from treatment and simple detoxing...the list is long.

-p