MajorMom
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I had an email from our new dietitian about one of her other DS patients coming up with high B6. She remembered us talking about COSTCO Kirkland calcium citrate and how some DSrs will develop really high B6 levels when taking it. She also remembered me saying that some DSrs keep a high B6 level and just can't seem to bring it down easily.
She was asking what could be the issue with this 3-year post-op DSr. He doesn't take Kirkland calcium citrate and only supplements with Dr Elariny's vit plan of 12 Vita4Life (all-in-one bariatric blend), Vitalady's dry D3 and Vitalady's dry A (palmitate). She was at a loss and told him to reduce the red meat he's eating and stay more with white meat but she has her doubts about this advice.
I told her I didn't think it was the red meat since we malabsorb, and mal-digest, so much of dense protein we eat and would likely have trouble absorbing any micro-nutrients such as B6 from meat. I think it's from active supplementation in the Vita4Life. But, my questions are, why do DSrs have so much trouble bringing high B6 levels down once we bring them up? Do we not process B6 as a normie would? What might have changed in our systems that doesn't allow us to break B6 down and eliminate it?
Thanks
She was asking what could be the issue with this 3-year post-op DSr. He doesn't take Kirkland calcium citrate and only supplements with Dr Elariny's vit plan of 12 Vita4Life (all-in-one bariatric blend), Vitalady's dry D3 and Vitalady's dry A (palmitate). She was at a loss and told him to reduce the red meat he's eating and stay more with white meat but she has her doubts about this advice.
I told her I didn't think it was the red meat since we malabsorb, and mal-digest, so much of dense protein we eat and would likely have trouble absorbing any micro-nutrients such as B6 from meat. I think it's from active supplementation in the Vita4Life. But, my questions are, why do DSrs have so much trouble bringing high B6 levels down once we bring them up? Do we not process B6 as a normie would? What might have changed in our systems that doesn't allow us to break B6 down and eliminate it?
Thanks