Vitamin B6
Benefits of Vitamin B6
- Energy-yielding metabolism
- Psychological function
- Regulation of hormonal activity
- Homocysteine metabolism
- Red blood cell formation
- Form: Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate
- Food source: Pulses, lentils, navy beans, bananas, avocados, walnuts, sweet potatoes, fortified cereals and soya foods such as tofu.
What is Vitamin B6?
Like all B Vitamins, Vitamin B6 helps convert the food that we eat into energy that we use throughout our day. It is also involved in making the brain messengers serotonin and dopamine, and the sleep hormone 'melatonin'.
What does Vitamin B6 do?
Vitamin B6 contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism and to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue. Unlike other B Vitamins, Vitamin B6 contributes to the regulation of hormonal activity. It also contributes to normal psychological function. A study in stressed but otherwise healthy adults looked at magnesium and Vitamin B6 taken together, measuring mental health and quality of life.
Vitamin B6 contributes to normal homocysteine metabolism. Homocysteine is an amino acid made in the body when it processes methionine, an amino acid from protein. B Vitamins help break homocysteine down, and researchers have looked at what happens when homocysteine levels are high. Researchers have also studied homocysteine, Vitamin B6 and folic acid in experimental models of heart health.
Vitamin B6 also contributes to normal red blood cell formation. Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body.
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