Vitamin B12, folate, and vitamin B6

Vitamin B12, folate, and vitamin B6

Vitamin B12, folate, and vitamin B6 are involved in homocysteine metabolism.

What in the world is homocysteine?

More than likely, you've never heard of homocysteine. Although it was first described in the 1930s and its instrumental role in causing heart disease was discovered in the late 1960s, homocysteine has gone relatively unnoticed and underappreciated by the medical community—until recently.

Homocysteine is an amino acid that occurs naturally in your body as it processes protein. When you ingest the essential amino acid, methionine, it must be broken down into non-essential amino acids. An essential amino acid is a protein you must have to live. A non-essential amino acid may be made from essential proteins. A very important protein, methionine, is used to make many other important proteins.

Homocysteine is used in many of the important steps your body uses to break down methionine into non-essential proteins. At the end of the cycle, homocysteine is used to recombine the "leftovers" from this process back into a little methionine. This entire process takes a lot of energy. Your body gets this energy from vitamins and other nutrients.

If you don't have enough nutrition, especially if you are B-12 deficient—either because you are not getting B vitamins from the foods you eat or because your body is not able to adequately absorb them (which happens as we age)—the methionine is not recombined and homocysteine escapes into your bloodstream. If it does, the homocysteine will eventually become toxic and will damage your arteries and brain cells.

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