Health-CHeck! Are you deficient in vitamin B or not?

Have you ever been tired, not refreshed, moody, or exhausted? These may be signs that you are Vitamin B insufficient! Vitamin B is a group of essential nutrients and plays an important role in our overall health. This time, ACU PAY will take you to check your own health whether you are lacking Vitamin B or not.

Warning Symptoms

Numbness in the arms and legs
Easily get stressed, or frequently get migraines, cannot sleep, or are hard to sleep.
Loss of appetite, do not want to eat anything, indigestion, or the stomach is not working well.
Anemia which weakens your body, lightheaded, rapid heart rate, quick breath, pale skin, and nervous system malfunction.
Dry, inflamed skin, and acne
After checking your health with this list, if you have the mentioned symptoms above, it is a sign that your body needs Vitamin B immediately! If your body does not get enough Vitamin B, those symptoms may get worse and you have to go to see a doctor eventually.
According to Phyathai Hospital, Vitamins are something that we need every day. The amount of each vitamin we need in each day depends on each type of the Vitamin. Vitamins play an important role in maintaining the body to function normally. Vitamin deficiency causes negative effects to our bodies and may lead us to unexpected harmful diseases.
What are the benefits of each vitamin B? Where to find them?

Functions of each vitamin B

Vitamin B1
It serves to burn sugar into energy, help prevent anemia and beriberi, maintain nerves and muscles, and help the heart to function normally. If the body lacks vitamin B1, it causes fatigue, numbness on fingers, toes, and bad effects on the heart muscle.
Found in: Legumes, nuts, and seeds
Vitamin B2
It is beneficial to growing children, preventing mouth ulcers and Angular Cheilitis, preventing migraines, keeping skin, nails, and hair healthy, and reducing esophageal cancer.
Found in: Dairy products, lean meat, eggs and green leaf vegetable

Vitamin B3
It helps metabolize food, create energy and body fat, destroy toxins from cigarette smoke, and pollution, cure stress, and help blood circulation.
Found in: Meats, poultry, fish, grains, and mushrooms.

Vitamin B5
It is necessary for brain function, helps sleep, controls mineral balance in the body, relieves arthritis, and lowers cholesterol and triglycerides.
Found in: Beef, chicken meat, offal, broccoli, sweet potatoes, potatoes, avocado, brown rice and oatmeal.

Vitamin B6
It is necessary for the nervous system and brain function, strengthens the body’s immune system, helps to slow aging, and has an important function in proteins metabolizing in the body, and helping to normalize the skin.
Found in: Poultry, fish, bananas, potatoes, and chickpeas.

Vitamin B7
It protects against gray hair, treats hair and scalp diseases, maintains dry, brittle nails, helps metabolize fat and protein, and relieves dermatitis, rashes, and muscle pain.
Found in: Eggs, nuts, seeds, and yam.

Vitamin B9
It helps maintain skin tone and health, solves the problem of uneven skin tone, and slows down the occurrence of grey hair. If taken together with Paba and vitamin B5, it will help you become appetizing. It helps prevent mouth ulcers, helps treat anemia, prevents intestinal parasites, food poisoning, and neonatal disabilities, helps to create breast milk, reduces blood amino homocysteine levels, and reduces the risk of heart disease.
Found in: Green leaf vegetables, legumes, sour fruits, and cereal supplements
Vitamin B12
It is essential for blood cell formation, central nervous system function and gastrointestinal system to prevent anemia.
Found in: Fish, shells, meat, eggs, and daily products.

However, in a hectic daily life, you may not be able to get much variety of nutrients. Taking vitamin B as a supplement is another option to get more vitamin B.