Vitamin B6 is indisputably needed for amino-acid metabolism, cardiovascular health, and nervous-system function, and much more. Although it is found in nearly every multi-vitamin supplement, the pyridoxine HCl form of Vitamin B6 cannot be used by your body without a chemical conversion known as phosphorylation. Researchers believe, however, that phosphorylation can be impaired by infection…even common infections, such as candidiasis.

   Furthermore, when the basic form is not converted to the active form (pyridoxal 5-phosphate), researchers speculate that it may interfere with vitamin B6 receptor sites, possibly worsening a deficiency rather than correcting it.

   Every amino-acid pathway requires enzymatic Vitamin B6 for proper metabolism. Coenzymes (often vitamins) frequently are critical to the performance of an enzyme, and together they catalyze the biochemistry of life.

   However, in order to work properly, the correct form or orthomolecular form of the vitamin must be available. To arrive at that form in manufacturing, four additional reactions are required: oxidation, amination, phosphorylation, and hydrolysis .

   In the world of bargain nutritional supplements, these ingredients are often called something they are not. Thus, a vitamin-analog can be called a vitamin simply because it contains a component of the true vitamin.

   Researchers in Europe believe that Pyridoxine HCl (a less expensive imitation of Vitamin B6) may actually block your cellular Vitamin B6 receptors, provoking Vitamin B6 deficiency symptoms.* Pure, pyridoxal 5-phosphate is the True vitamin B6. This is the reason we named our product “True B6.”