http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/bomber/bomber1.html
2006-12-22 18:48:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
If you get too much:
High doses of vitamin B6 (more than 2,000 mg a day) can cause nerve damage when taken for long periods. In rare cases, prolonged use at lower doses (200 to 300 mg a day) can have the same consequence. Fortunately, nerve damage is completely reversible once you discontinue the vitamin. If you're using B6 for nerve pain, call your doctor if you experience any new numbness or tingling and stop taking the vitamin. Doses up to 100 mg a day are safe, even for long-term use.
Long-term use of high doses of B6 may cause nerve damage. When consumed in higher than recommended doses, vitamin B6 has been shown to interfere with some anticonvulsants such as carbamazepine, gabapentin, and phenytoin, and the drug levodopa, used to treat Parkinson's disease.
2006-12-24 12:41:38 · answer #1 · answered by Goldista 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. There was a clinical trial some years ago where a megadose of B6 on its own was found to cause nerve damage. That's about all that has been acknowledged to be potentially dangerous about B6. It's an important vitamin, despite Brojon, and it's part of the B group, without which humans tend to die.
However- It's really rather a pity that all this work has gone into something so abrasive. I think he defeats his own purpose and hurts his credibility with the harangue against the USDA and the history of food regulation. Worse, I don't see any external sources, and in any real scientific study they are mandatory.
This article is conjecture without substance, and you'd need to have some confirmation of his assumptions about almost all of the functions of B6. The reader is apparently expected to take it all on trust. Even if Brojon is writing in the best of faith, the principle of scientific proof is duplicating his results.
The bit about protein from vegetables is just plain wrong. Vegetable and animal proteins are not the same thing. I've never heard of any role that B6 plays in Pellagra. That, unfortunately, seems more rave than brave. The invention of B6 is another story which could do with some subtantiation. None of the article is what could be called court standard evidence, even if every word were true.
Food technology has changed a lot over the last century, not necessarily for the better, and the causes of the plagues of obesity, heart disease, etc, are far more complex than one vitamin is likely to achieve.
2006-12-22 21:59:41 · answer #2 · answered by Paul W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-23 18:33:12 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vitamin B6 is water soluble, it can't be stored by your body, any excess is removed in your urine. I wouldn't worry about it.
2006-12-22 19:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by The professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bull. Excess B and C vitamins can't be stored. If they're not used, they're excreted. You can't have too much B or C.
You can overdose on A, D, calcium, and iron, but not those.
2006-12-22 18:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by Emmy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like a crackpot conspiracy theory page to me.
2006-12-22 19:05:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO
2006-12-22 18:56:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋