If you suffer from daytime tiredness, it can be caused by a plethora of things, such as a bad night's sleep or staying up too late, but it can also be due to a vitamin deficiency.
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According to doctors, daytime tiredness can be a sign of vitamin B12 deficiency. Vitamin B12 has many benefits to the body, it helps support healthy red blood cell formation and can help prevent heart disease.
How to tell if you have a vitamin B12 deficiency?
According to Birmingham Live, a vitamin B12 deficiency can show up in several ways with the most common being daytime tiredness. A lack of vitamin B12 may also show in pale skin, heart palpitations, loss of appetite, weight loss, and infertility.
Moreover, if you are lacking vitamin B12, it can cause numbness and a tingly feeling. You could also experience problems with balance, depression, confusion, dementia, poor memory and soreness of the mouth or tongue.
Vitamin B12 is needed to maintain a normal nervous system and can help reduce tiredness and fatigue. According to the National Institutes of Health:
It helps make DNA, the genetic material in all of your cells'. The National Institutes of Health said Vitamin B12 also 'helps prevent megaloblastic anaemia, a blood condition that makes people tired and weak.
Where to get vitamin B12?
If you are lacking vitamin B12, you can get supplements from Boots, a pack of 180 vitamin B12 tablets is just £7.60, which comes to just 4p per pill. You can also find vitamin B12 supplements at other retailers such as Holland and Barrett, and Superdrug.
If you don’t want to take supplements, you can change your diet to include more foods that contain vitamin B12, such as fish, poultry, eggs, milk, clams, oysters, beef liver, and nutritional yeast.
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Sources used:
Birmingham Live: ‘The 4p tablet doctors say can boost memory and stop tiredness’
National Institutes of Health: ‘Vitamin B12’
