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The Role of B12 in Weight Loss
Vitamins are an essential part of your body’s health and well-being. They are responsible for many of the functions and processes in your body, which are thrown off when your levels are low. One of the important vitamins is B12, which serves many purposes, including helping you get rid of excess weight.
The team at NuvidaRx Weight Loss-Tallahassee Clinic provides many options when it comes to achieving your weight loss goals. Leading our weight loss clinic is Dr. William Lantz Effinger, who assesses your health to determine what type of weight loss treatment is best for you.
Understanding vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 is a water-soluble vitamin that your body needs for several reasons. Because it’s water-soluble, your body isn’t able to store it, meaning you need to get it from outside sources.
Your diet is the best way for you to keep up your levels of vitamin B12. Foods that typically contain this nutrient include:
- Beef
- Chicken
- Liver
- Shellfish
- Fortified cereals
- Yogurt
- Eggs
- Milk
If you consume some of these foods on a regular basis, your levels of vitamin B12 are likely sufficient. However, some digestive problems may cause you to be deficient in this vitamin. Older age and restrictive diets also put you at risk for low levels of B12.
Vitamin B12 is essential for several functions in your body. It’s necessary for the formation of red blood cells and your DNA. It’s also vital for your overall energy production, and to the health of your heart and brain.
How B12 helps you lose weight
One of the ways vitamin B12 works in your body is by producing energy. This energy allows you to be active and not feel fatigued.
Energy is important when it comes to losing weight as well. Vitamin B12 injections help with this process by increasing your energy, which ramps up your metabolism. A faster metabolism burns more calories.
This vitamin is also used to help your body get rid of fat more efficiently. It plays an important role in the metabolism of your fat through your liver. This helps your body remove fat through your liver more efficiently than without the extra B12.
Some research shows that low levels of vitamin B12 in the body actually contributes to weight gain and obesity. Sufficient levels of the vitamin have been linked to a decreased risk of obesity.
Other benefits of vitamin B12
At our clinic, the team takes a comprehensive approach to helping you lose weight. Vitamin B12 injections are just one of the ways we help you make this happen.
You’ll usually benefit from these injections two times per week, along with lipotropic injections. The lipotropic injections are an extra boost to your body to increase the breakdown of fat and allow sufficient removal from your liver.
Vitamin B12 injections have other advantages to your overall health and wellness too. Having normal amounts of this nutrient in your body aids in your sleep, increases your energy, and reduces headaches.
If you have feelings of depression, B12 injections may actually improve your mood. It’s also been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, along with a healthy diet and exercise.
To learn more about vitamin B12 injections for weight loss, call our office today at 682-217-5757, or request an appointment online using our convenient tool.
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