Relationship of Body, Mind and Consciousness.

• —Positive relationship with body, mind and consciousness.

• —Healthy Body can develop Healthy Mind.

• —Healthy Body and Healthy Mind can lead to higher level of consciousness.

• —Unity of Body, Mind and Consciousness Lead to Success.
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Our Life Style

Life Style Helps to maintain Good Health.

Food Habits, Relaxation and Meditation are bases of Good

Health

—Food habits determines our Health.

—Taste, Composition and Timing of food is important.

Relaxation Techniques.

—Relaxation help to maintain our good health and peaceful

mind.

—Meditation helps to maintain mental peace and lead to higher

level of consciousness. 

Our Thinking Pattern

—Generally We can find Two Types of Thinking Pattern :

• Reactive• Proactive

How to identify our own Thinking Pattern ?

•Language represent the thinking pattern of any individual.

•Listen to Our Language

Know Vitamin B12

Vitamin B12(cobalamin)

·         water soluble vitamin

·         commercially available as cyanocobalamin(most stable form)

Dietary Source: animal protein products

The best sources of vitamin B12 include the following.

·         Liver

·         Kidney

·         Milk

·         Eggs

·         Fish

·         Cheese

In stomach

b12 + intrinsic factor(secreted from parietal cells of gastric mucosa)

= IF-b12 complex -------------------------; binds with speccific receptor on ileal mucosal cells-------------;  circulation

In the circulation, vitamin B12 binds to the plasma globulin transcobalamin II for transport to cells(where it carries out its metabolic function), or to the liver, where it is stored until it is needed by other tissues.

Because the liver can store 1 to 10 mg of vitamin B12, and vitamin B12 can be reabsorbed from the bile in the enterohepatic circulation, strict vegetarians who eat little or no animal products may only gradually (after 20 to 30 years) develop any vitamin B12 deficiency.

Vitamin B12 is an essential coenzyme for the normal function of all cells. It affects cell growth and replication.

Active coenzyme forms

·         5-deoxyadenosylcobalamin

·         methylcobalamin.

Causes for vitamin B12 deficiency

·         seen today are not due to a dietary deficiency but to inadequate absorption.

·         Gastric atrophy or gastric surgery can inhibit the secretion of IF and lead to vitamin B12 deficiency.

·         Gastric atrophy is a common cause of vitamin B12 deficiency in the elderly as it is a progressive, genetically determined, age-dependent disease that occurs as a person ages.

·         Less common etiologies of vitamin B12 deficiency are pancreatic disorders, which affect the secretion of pancreatic enzymes that are needed to release vitamin B12 from salivary proteins (so that it can bind to IF), and a congenital absence of transcobalamin II.

Dosage Ranges and Duration of Administration

The RDA for vitamin B12 is as follows.

·         Neonates to 6 months.: 0.3 mcg

·         Infants 6 months to 1 year: 0.5 mcg

·         Children 1 to 3 years: 0.7 mcg

·         Children 4 to 6 years: 1.0 mcg

·         Children 7 to 10 years: 1.4 mcg

·         Men age 11 years and over: 2.0 mcg

·         Women age 11 years and over: 2.0 mcg

·         Pregnant women: 2.2 mcg

·         Lactating women: 2.6 mcg