What Sets The B12 Protocol Apart?

The B12 Protocol's ultimate aim is to maximize mitochondrial health through use of vitamin B12's coenzymatic and pharmacological actions.

The coenzymatic roles of vitamin B12 are bolstered by the components we will discuss in this post.  The pharmacological roles of vitamin B12 in the context of this protocol, will be discussed in a future blog post.  These pharmacological roles of vitamin B12 can be harnessed at any point during the course of the protocol, while the coenzymatic roles depend more so upon the various other protocol components.

What differentiates this B12 Protocol from other protocols that claim to address functional vitamin B12 deficiency is that the method is predicated on the assumption that it is not a nutritional deficiency that we aim to correct but rather an insurmountable demand for energy at the cellular level that cannot be overcome by dietary intervention alone. 

In a future blog post, I will dissect how the diversion of energy away from neurodevelopmental processes is likely the source of the exponential rise in developmental disorders we are living through.  The purpose of this post is to define the biochemical outcomes necessary for healthy neurodevelopment, and more specifically, how The B12 Protocol is designed to achieve those desired outcomes.

Despite what every government health agency across the globe wants you to believe, we are witnessing a global epidemic of chronic disease that cannot be explained by poor genetics.  The personal responsibility crowd believes this epidemic is attributed to poor dietary choices.  I believe they are both using small bits of truth to try and create a complete construct of truth.

While there is no doubt that individual genetics play a role in health outcomes and even some blame needs to be placed on the quality of our soil and the quality of our food supply, we have to face the fact that the health epidemics we are living through in this age did not occur through any other period in human history, including times of great famine and very limited diets that were devoid of the nutritional components we are seeking to replete.  Our ancestors who passed down our genetic inheritance knew no such world where autism, ADHD, allergies, and cancer were part of everyday life.

I want to be clear in saying that diet is very important to healing from and preventing many negative health problems.  Wise dietary choices are a critical part of the healing process.  But run – don’t walk – from anyone who professes that your child has autism because you skipped out on iodized salt, went vegan during your hippie college years, put your child on an elimination diet to address their gastrointestinal challenges, or any other dietary choice you made.  Anyone who ascribes to such nonsense has ignored the entire evolutionary history of humanity.  It can be definitively stated that widespread functional deficiency of vitamin B12 is generally not caused by a poor diet, depleted soils, or broken genetics.

A logical evaluation of our current collective state of health, on the other hand, must consider more consequential environmental factors.  Though almost certainly multifactorial, the single most consequential cause of the increased demand for cellular energy, though it requires rigorous study to confirm, is speculated to be related to epigenetic dysregulation of the immune system and mitochondrial function.

This B12 Protocol is set apart from other methods of repleting vitamin B12 by recognizing that we cannot utilize vitamin B12 in the context of its coenzymatic roles in a state of poor redox capacity.  We depend on a robust antioxidant defense system, which hinges on the following:

• Thyroid hormone optimization
• MOCO optimization
• Robust vitamin B2 activation
• Robust Folate/Vitamin B12 cycling
• Robust methylation capacity
• Robust antioxidant defense system (redox capacity)
• Proper epigenetic regulation
• Robust mitochondrial function

Any system or method that fails to address any of the above components falls short of addressing the consequences of a functional vitamin B12 deficiency.  Furthermore, any system or method that hinges on the assumption that dietary measures account for the global epidemic in chronic health issues is missing the understanding of how to correct course and is fundamentally different from The B12 Protocol offered here.

In the next post, we will dive deeper into the pharmacological roles of vitamin B12 in the context of this protocol.  You won't want to miss that.

In a separate post, we will explore how the diversion of energy away from neurodevelopmental processes is likely the source of the exponential rise in developmental disorders we are living through.  I will break down how each component of this system aims to correct the course of neurodevelopment.