What Is A Good Vitamin Supplement For Carpal Tunnel?

January 7, 2003

This answer in frightening. Physicians in general have been cutting vitamins

for so long that they do not know the basic things about nutrients. Vitamin B6

in the form of pyridoxine will help only a small number of patients with carpal

tunnel syndrome. These would be the patients who have an absolute deficiency

of B6 in their diet, which is rare. This finding was made by John Ellis, M.D.,

described in Vitamin B6: the Doctor's Report and in The Doctor Who Looked at

Hands. His patients where often women who ate a lot of well done beef. B6 is

heat volatile. I found that in California, the land of fruits and nuts, that

true B6 deficiency in the diet was rare and that the problem is that the patient

lacks an enzyme that converts pyridoxine to P5P, pyridoxal 5 phosphate, and then

the P5P goes off into the body and does B6 things. Therefore, one should take

P5P. This is a basic example how in orthomolecular medicine we often bypass a

metabolic block.

The other thing is the comment that B6 can be dangerous. Yes, it can cause

numbness and tingling, even finally a temporary paralysis but this is really not

due to a B6 toxicity; it is an induced deficiency of other B vitamins causing

beriberi or pellagra. Anyone in orthomolecular medicine knows that you never

give large doses of B6 without moderate doses of the other B vitamins. If

non-orthomolecular M.D.s would stop cutting vitamins, they might learn how to

use them.

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