vitaminb15

Vitamin B15 (Pangamic acid)

Vitamin-like substance

Although commonly called vitamin B15, pangamic acid is not, in fact a vitamin. It was first isolated from apricot kernels by Drs Ernst Krebs (father and son), and is said to stimulate the carriage of oxygen from lungs to blood and from blood to organs and tissues. Russian studies claim that B15 supplements can lower the body’s oxygen needs, thus helping athletes by transporting oxygen to their muscles more efficiently.

There appears to be some difficulty in obtaining a natural source of B15, and some doubt about whether pangamic acid is in fact the active ingredient in the products sold as vitamin B15, which are manufactured under a Russian patent. Dr Eric Braverman’s excellent book The Healing Nutrients Within claims that B15′s active effects are due to its content of dimethylglycine (DMG), an intermediate product made from choline, found in very small amounts in the human body, and eventually converted to the amino acid glycine. On the basis of his research with DMG, Dr Braverman believes that many of the effects of B15 are in fact attributable to glycine, and also to choline, the breakdown of which is slowed down by DMG.

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