theory about vit b5 acne fix

[allblkaudi 0]

Hey guys, I just had a thought about the vitaman b5 acne fix thing.

It says to take 10 grams of b5, which creates more vitaman A, which would act almost as a retinoid does and stop acne.

but what happens after years of taking massive amts b5? would your body adjust to having that much vitaman A and when you stop b5 it will create a vitaman A deficiency(characterized by dry eyes, night blindness and other problems)

[Xero 0]

B5 does not create Vitamin A, it makes Coenzyme-A (sp?).

[pharaoh123 0]

I think a better theory that someone mentioned on here is that it creates a biotin deficency. The more I thought about it the more sense that makes. The symptoms of deficency are dry skin and a lot of the side effects people point out like thinning hair.

And it would make sense that there shold be a loading phase of up to 10g to create that deficency and then a loading phase to maintain it. And the people taking a b complex see less results from it.

So as you can tell it might beery unsafe. I'm on my 4th week of taking it but dropped it down to 2g.

[allblkaudi 0]

Well how about this... I know a guy that I worked with for MANY years, and he is now in a mental hospital because hes the equivilant of "10 second tom" from that movie 50 first dates. He has lost all his capacity to remember anything new, so he lives in a world where he thinks everything that has just happened is something from his past. The diagnoses for why he got this way was a vitaman b-10 deficincy.

when all you people stop intaking vit b are you going to go nuts too ?

[Weedman 0]

Well how about this... I know a guy that I worked with for MANY years, and he is now in a mental hospital because hes the equivilant of "10 second tom" from that movie 50 first dates. He has lost all his capacity to remember anything new, so he lives in a world where he thinks everything that has just happened is something from his past. The diagnoses for why he got this way was a vitaman b-10 deficincy.

when all you people stop intaking vit b are you going to go nuts too :)?

was it caused by megadosing b5 :o ??