Vitamin B6 contains proxidine which is an hydrasoluble vitamin. This vitamin is paramount since your body is not producing it. A dietary supplement is essential to fight this deficiency.

Vitamin B6 is present in your everyday food containing pyridoxamine, pyridoxal and pyridoxine. Its active formula is called Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate or PLP.

Vitamin B6 ensures a good protein and amino-acids metabolism. It also helps producing antibodies, hemoglobin, some neurotransmitters as serotin, melatonin, dopamin and gamma aminobutyric acid.

Vitamine B6 provides mental balance and a good assimilation of vitamin B12. It also ensures the production of chlohydric acid.

You also need vitamin B6 to produce vitamin B3 or Niacin from the amino-acid Tryptophane.

Vitamine B6 helps to produce energy from the glucogen of your muscles (sugar stocked in muscles).

Associated with vitamin B9 and vitamin B12, vitamin B6 helps stabilize the formation of the amino-acid homocysteine which is responsible for cardiovascular diseases.

A vitamin B6 deficiency can cause tongue and lip inflammation, sideroblastic anemia, depression and irritability. This deficiency is more frequent with elderly people and people which diet is based on refined products.

Discovered in 1934 and emphasized in 1938, vitamin B6 was synthetized in 1939 and called peroxidine. Pyridoxamine and pyridoxal (the 2 other forms of vitamin B6) were identified in 1949.

Vitamine B6, B9 and B12 deficiency increases the rate of homocysteine which can cause cardiovascular diseases.

Many tests demonstrated that the association of 1 mg of vitamine B9, 10 mg of B6 and 400 mg de B12, reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases for people who had an angioplasty. It can also reduce the risk of artherosclerosis for people having a hight rate of homocysteine after a kidney transplant.

Tests made in 1985 on 342 pregnant women demonstrated that vitamin B6 has positive effects on nausea during pregnancy. You need more vitamin B6 when you are pregnant or breast feeding as your body demands more of it.

As a component of hemoglobin, vitamine B enhances muscles and protects your skin. It is also a growth factor.

Vitamine B6 relieves the pain due to prementrual syndrome. It has positive effects on asthma and autism, diabetic neuropathy and the syndrome of carpal tunel.