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In this topic, we talk about subclinical pellagra. Pellagra is a vitamin B3 deficiency called 3D’s; Dementia, Diarrhea, and Dermatitis.
Subclinical Pellagra
Subclinical pellagra means you don’t have the full-blown deficiency but you are deficient. There is a neurological condition called neurasthenia which is the exhaustion of the central nervous system (Energy Reserves).
So pellagra is a vitamin b 3 deficiency .
And when you have pellagra , it’s a classical b three deficiency and then it’s called the 3 d’s , dementia , diarrhea , and you get dermatitis .
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Usually around the neck , in the hands .
It can be a pretty serious , condition , but there is also a subclinical pellagra where you’re not you don’t have a full blown deficiency , but you are deficient .
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Subclinical Pellagra symptoms
And I wanna talk about what that would create as far as symptoms .
There’s a neurological condition called neurosthenia , which is exhaustion of the central nervous system .
So the energy reserves of your nervous system in the mitochondria is exhausted .
So you’re mentally exhausted .
You’re mentally tired .
Headache , irritable , intracranial pressure , digestive issues , fainting if you get up too fast .
Symptoms of Neurasthenia:
- • Mentally tired
- • Headache
- • Irritability
- • Digestion
- • Fainting
- • Different Neurological Perception Changes
- • Words move when reading
- • Ground moves when walking
- • Picture moves
- • Loss of Taste / Smell
Vitamin B3 or niacin is a coenzyme involved in a lot of different chemical reactions inside the body and especially in mitochondria. It has the ability to protect against diabetes especially type 1 and it can also lower your cholesterol.
Causes of Vitamin B3 Deficiency
- • Consuming alcohol
- • Chronic diarrhea
- • Excessive leucine
- • Inflamed gut
- • Gastric bypass
- • Corn
- • Refined carbs and sugar
Best Source of Vitamin B3
• Nutritional Yeast
neurological perception changes
Also , you have different , neurological perception changes as well .
Let’s say for example , you’re looking into mirror at yourself and you just see that the your face is changing .
Or let’s say you’re reading something on a piece of paper and the words are moving , or you’re walking and the ground is , moving , or you’re looking at the wall at the picture and you see , it going back and forth .
It can also affect your taste .
You lose the sense of taste and smell , and sometimes you actually smell something that’s not even there .
So Vitamin B3 or niacin is really a coenzyme involved in a lot of different chemical reactions inside the body , especially in the mitochondria , the energy factor of the cell .
And the way you can become depleted is by drinking a lot of alcohol , like in college .
Chronic diarrhea , excessive leucine , that’s an amino acid , inflamed gut , gastric bypass consuming too much corn .
Corn has a protein that can block the absorption of vitamin b 3 .
Also , refined carbohydrates and refined sugars will also create a vitamin b 3 deficiency .
Niacin , which is b 3 , has the ability to protect against diabetes , especially type 1 .
So it helps counter the destruction or the oxidation of the cell that makes insulin .
Niacin also , can lower your cholesterol .
So you can see that vitamin b 3 is very , very important in a lot of different functions .
I recommend getting your Vitamin B3 from nutritional yeast .
But if you have any of these symptoms right here , start taking niacin in higher amounts .
And you can safely take niacin at 10 to 15 x the normal amounts .
