Supplement Options | What You Need

1. Injections of Vitamin B-12

Ask your health professional for a prescription for B-12 Injections containing methylcobalamin or hydroxocobalamin.

The reason that injections of B-12 are so effective is that you are administering a bioactive, body-ready dose of B-12 right into your bloodstream. That LOOOOONG process of B-12 assimilation from food or supplements is bypassed (remember the section, “B-12 Metabolism: Why You May Not Be Getting It”), and you get the B-12 directly into your biochemistry.

With severe B-12 deficiencies and symptomologies, this is the best way to get all systems back online the fastest.

In this case, you will be working with your health professional, so both your bloodwork from your Urine MMA test (The GOLD Standard) (and possibly a Homocysteine (Hcy) Test) and your response to appropriate B-12 supplementation will help your health professional to better serve your health interests (and perhaps that of others!) in the years ahead.

Here are some sources for injectable Methylcobalamin
(in most cases you will need to call them)

1. http://www.wedgewoodrx.com/items/methylcobalamin-injection-solution.html

2. Hopewell Pharmacy in New Jersey: 1-800-792-6670

3. Coastal Compounding Pharmacy 912-354-5188 or 866-354-5188

4. Lee Silsby Pharmacy: 1-800-918-8831

5. Wellness Pharmacy – 1-800-227-2627

6. Park Pharmacy – 1-866-551-7195

Hydroxocobalamin injections of 1,000 mcg/ml are manufactured by Watson Laboratories, Inc. (Corona, California, phone: 951-493-5300) and is sold by prescription only. NDC 0591-2888-30 (30 ml steril multiple dose vial).

2. Transdermal Methylcobalamin B-12 PATCHES
(Behind Your Ear)

These things rock. You just put them behind your ear, and like the shots – you bypass the whole digestive/assimilation issue that makes getting B-12 into your bloodstream a challenge.

Here is your source of B-12 Patches:

With the slow release technology of a topical patch, we provide you with 24-hour access to this positive source of health. The B-12 Energy Patch is a safe, effective and inexpensive alternative to prescription injections.

Apply patch daily to an area with little or no hair, i.e., shoulder, back or hip. For best results, it is recommended to wear patches for 8 hours. There is no additional benefit wearing the patch longer than 8 hours. Patches can be worn during sleep.

3. Oral Human-Active Vitamin B-12

This is a fine way to go - the price is right, it’s the right form of B-12, and you will establish healthy B-12 Status using oral-sublingual (under the tongue) human-active B-12.

We are looking for 5,000 mcg per day (in tablets or liquid) of human-active B-12. Here you go:

B-12 Oral Liquid

Sublingual Tablets: Jarrow Methyl B-12 (5,000 mcg)

Final Words on Supplementation

Again, if you have a deep and long-standing history of symptoms related to B-12 Deficiency (symptoms which we have now covered), then getting B-12 Injections per the advice of an health professional - along with B12 Status monitoring and attention paid to symptom continuation or resolution, is the right path for you.

If you have just a few symptoms or causative factors, then B-12 patches or B-12 sublingual tablets/liquid will work well for you to raise your B-12 Status to healthy, and keep it there - now that you know to use human-active B-12.

In addition to these methods of supplementation, we should take a few minutes to look at the nutrients that interact with and support B-12 assimilation and levels in your body. Now on with our next section, Nutrient Interactions.