The Magnetic Diet - Folate - Vitamin B7 (Biotin)

essential to keep your skin, brain, and nervous system healthy. It plays a key role in forming antibodies, which combat infection. It also helps our bodies make hemoglobin, which is the pigment that makes our blood red and which carries oxygen through the bloodstream. Like the other B vitamins, it is necessary for the release of glucose, which makes it vital in energy metabolism. The vitamin also appears to have a stabilizing effect on sex hormones.

Signs of vitamin B6 deficiency may include sleeplessness, anxiety, irritability, anemia, dry skin, and cracked lips.

Sources: Spinach, red bell peppers tuna, bananas, broccoli.

Folate. Folate is important for heart health. Researchers kept track of the dietary habits of over 80,000 women for 14 years and as a result established the relationship between folate intake and heart disease. In another study, people who ate diets high in folate had a much lower risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke than those who ate less.

Signs of deficiency of folic acid may include fatigue, eczema, cracked lips, anxiety, high homocystein levels, macrocytic anemia, and pale skin.

Sources: Garbanzo beans, black beans, pinto beans, spinach.

Vitamin B7 (Biotin). Biotin is yet another B-complex vitamin that enables our bodies to process carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into energy. Biotin plays a vital role in the production of the important fatty acids that ensure healthy skin, hair and more importantly nerve function. It helps create protein from amino acids and is also involved in the synthesis of genetic material RNA and DNA. It’s even said to help keep hair from turning gray.

Signs of biotin deficiency may include scaly, dry skin around the nose and mouth, patches of hair loss, poor appetite, fatigue, depression, and nausea.

Sources: Swiss chard, almonds, peanut butter.

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