Greetings iMedDo newsletter subscriber congregation! Last month we talked about Nickel detox where the nickel metal is named after a germanic folklore devil the Nixie. Well this month I want to talk about Cobalt metal which is amazingly named after another germanic creature of folklore the Kobold which is a creature imagined like a gnome or goblin! Cobalt ore in the mine was considered “goblin ore” since the arsenic and sulphur in it made it toxic and smelly but it wasn’t the fault of the cobalt. Cobalt metal is used in the human body as the core of the vitamin Cobalmin which you likely have heard of by its more common name Vitamin B12, a vitamin very important for energy, blood, and brain health which sounds very similar to my other favorite nutrient iodine. So in this episode I will delve into the biochemistry of Vitamin B12, to figure out how vitamin B12 energy and iodine energy systems overlap, and explain how to maximize energy by nutrition using iodine, vitamin B12, magnesium and potassium. A key finding is that the government recommended %DV (daily value) for vitamin B12 is off by a hugely erroneous amount 3-4 orders of magnitude which is negatively affecting the health of Americans which is something I’m hoping to work with this new make America Healthy Administration with RFKJr to fix.
WHAT IS COBALT?
Cobalt is the 27th element on the periodic table. Cobalt when purified by smelting into free element is a hard lustrous somewhat brittle gray metal.
Cobalt is in Group 9 of the periodic table which is named after it as the “Cobalt Group” (Group on periodic table is the column its in) which besides Cobalt (Co #27) also includes the elements Rhodium (Rh #45), Iridium (Ir #77) and Meitnerium (Mt #109). Group 9 metals are known for their high density and boiling points, ability to form ions with different charges, catalytic and magnetic properties (except cobalt is not known for its magnetic properties). Um so cobalt of the cobalt group is very different from it’s other group members as it lacks magnetic properties? This might be important. Cobalt like it’s neighbor iron is ferro-magnetic though. Also cobalt seems very different from its other group members because out of the group only cobalt has any biological relevance that I’m aware of. Cobalt can most commonly form +1, +2, or +3 ions where Co2+ & Co3+ are more common and Co3+ is most common in cobalt vitamin cobalmin/vitamin B12 supplements. Instead of sharing similarity with its group, when it comes to nutrition cobalt appears to share more in common with its neightbors in the period (row). Situated between Iron (Fe #26) and Nickel (Ni #28), cobalt (Co #27) appears right at home with biological properties. Iron is a very important nutrient to all life even as the “firestone of life”, and nickel is an important nutrient in early life though not used by humans. Cobalt is an important nutrient to humans as it’s used in cobalmin where vitamin B12 is a complicated nutrient which we are going to delve into deeply in this episode to try to figure out why it uses cobalt. At first pass cobalt seems like it could have been an early alternative to iron where it could be like a “cobalt firestone of life” similar to the “iron firestone of life”. However, whereas iron appears to be good at binding to oxygen and sulphur, cobalt in cobalmin appears useful for binding to nitrogen and for moving around methyl groups which is necessary for metabolism.
COBALT BLUE GLASS
Cobalt is best known for its use in making “Cobalt Blue” glass whose history goes all the way back to ancient mesopotamia where cobalt glass known as “smalt” was made and ground up into blue pigment. Cobalt Blue glass is famous to me because I use it to hold the iMedDo detox system.
Cobalt Blue was found in ancient mesopotamia from 2000 BC, and cobalt oxide smalt as a pigment was found in ancient Egypt pottery from 1500 BC where its use was soon spread to the Aegean region. Cobalt smalt was common in European paintings used as a blue pigment from 15-17th century. Cobalt blue glass was found in ancient China and was used in porcelain and Renaissance era pottery, but was relatively rare until modern era where it only gained widespread production about 200 years ago in European glass houses.
THE LORE OF GOBLIN ORE
Cobalt as it’s own element was not isolated until the 1730’s by Swedish Chemist George Brandt. Swiss Germans love Germanic and Greek mythology, and thus Cobalt the element was somehow named after the Kobold goblin/gnome which is in both Germanic and Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, the cave creature steals from Hercules who is mad at first, then is won over by the creature amusing him. The Germanic Kobold, which is a like a mischievous cave goblin or gnome is also sometimes referred to as a cave demon or lesser devil the “daemon metallicus” i.e. metal demon. The ancient Greek word Koballos was used to describe a rogue or a gnave and is the root word of goblin which was what the German silver miners were thinking of when they were imaging a kobold, goblin or gnome who was stealing their silver and leaving toxic fumes to mess with them. Germanic miners called cobalt ore “Goblin Ore” because it was corrosive under their feet and created bad fumes. Also because this Goblin Ore was leftover ore that contained no silver, they felt the kobold goblin was stealing from them. We now know the ore they were calling Goblin Ore was most likely cobaltite which contained cobalt, arsenic and sulphur. It was the arsenic and sulphur creating the toxic and smelly fumes, not the cobalt, though so naming cobalt the element after a cave demon kobold is ultimately a misnomer, but the name stuck.
COBALT IS NAMED FOR THE KOBOLD GOBLIN
CAVE KOBOLDS EXPLAINED BY BUCKETS
German Silver Miners would accuse the Kobold of stealing their silver, but they also accredited the Kobold to sometimes leading them to silver veins and sometimes providing light for them to exit. Trying to think like a German silver miner, I think I figured out what was going on. It has to do with buckets. There is a German word “Kubel” for bucket which is an alternatively proposed etymology for Cobalt. The Kobold is a Gnome.
Imagine you are a miner and you have buckets full of excess ore. Some of the ore was stinky and toxic and flammable and some of it was just regular dirt. You might want to mark the buckets to let you know which is which. You might paint friendly looking gnomes on buckets of silver ore and you might paint goblins or unfriendly kobolds on buckets with toxic ore that smelled. Likely both the silver and cobaltite ores smelled as both had sulfur, but the ground cobaltite ore with arsenic and sulphur in was the devil as could produce corrosive fumes that could make you sick from the arsenic, and you might notice the difference. Buckets of dirt above ground could also be used to plant flowers in, and an empty bucket was a good place to spot a real “Kobold Demon” as your mischevious kitty cat.
DON’T BLAME COBALT FOR ARSENIC
Because I’ve written an article on Arsenic detox already, I know that Arsenic ore is frequently found with silver and gold in it. When the miners found toxic arsenic and suphur ore they likely got excited because it could mean they were near a silver or gold vein. The miners in Saxony, Germany were mining for silver, for example, as I talked about in Germanium newsletter. The miners would find an ore that they thought had silver, but wouldn’t yield any, instead would just smell and poison so they would call it “Kobold Ore” i.e. Goblin Ore. Today we know the goblin ore is most likely Cobaltite which we now know the chemical composition of which is CoAsS (Cobalt, Arsenic, and Sulphur). Sadly many miners had heavy metal poisoning from substances such as arsenic, and I noted that the Swiss chemist who discovered cobalt died of prostate cancer probably from iodine deficiency with arsenic poisoning from playing with all that arsenic containing “goblin ore” to isolate the cobalt, poor guy. But it was not the cobalt poisoning him, it was the arsenic! So sadly we are left with another chemistry misnomer. Cobalt is named from a mischevious cave goblin whose real name is Arsenic and Cobalt the un-named element at the time just unjustly got the blame but the name stuck. With Arsenic the name fits i.e. Arson i.e. Fire of the Nick i.e. the Devil. The Devil’s Fire. That’s what the miners saw when they saw cobalt ore as well but it was the Aresenic in the ore not the cobalt to blame. Once we detox the devil by detoxing arsenic with the iMedDo detox system, like separating cobalt from the arsenic and sulphur in the goblin ore, then we find that cobalt is a treasure that can bring vitality and energy. If you are looking for a Kobold to lead you to silver treasure look no farther than NeuSilver in the iMedDo detox system! But there is even more treasure to be had with cobalt as it’s used in the powerful cobalt vitmamin: vitamin B12: cobalmin!
COBALMIN
Cobalmin, like the name sounds is the Cobalt Vitamin. Cobalmin = Cobalt Vitamin = Vitamin B12 . It also has the word “balm” in it which is a healing salve which is exactly what I want you to think about rather than thinking about a goblin or a demon or a gnome when thinking about the cobalt vitamin B12.
COBALT NUTRITION
To understand what cobalt in cobalmin does in the body is advanced biochemistry but in a nutshell you need it for energy, genetic code, blood health, brain health and more. Cobalmin is a very important vitamin because it is not one that our bodies can make and thus it is an essential vitamin that we must get from our food primarily meat.
VITAMIN B12 & ENERGY CONNECTION TO IODINE ENERGY
Vitamin B12 which is a well known vitamin that if you are low on and then get some it’s very noticeable how you feel more energy. Because I’ve written extensively on how getting iodine gives you more energy, I have long suspected that there is some connection between vitamin B12 and iodine. It was my hope that by studying cobalt that I could find that connection. What I have found is that iodine and cobalt in cobalmin/vitamin B12 give you energy in different ways. Iodine via thyroid hormone and thyroid control control ATP energy made in the mitochondria where ATP is the most potent and well known energy molecule in the body. Iodine can even stimulate mitochondria-genesis the production of more mitochondria to make more energy. Vitamin B12 instead as we will see increases the bodies ability to make a different energy molecule called GTP from the Kreb’s Cycle which occcurs in the mitochondria giving your body a different form of energy which is more useful for making RNA and DNA. The connection is that both iodine and cobalmin amplify phosphate energy system but different ones ATP vs GTP (adenosine tri-phosphate versus guanosine triphosphate), and that both support your mitochondria making more energy. As you get more iodine with the iMedDo detox system, also recommend you get plenty of other nutrients including vitamin B12 which is why I also recommend you get the Power Source One multivitamin which has lots of vitamin B12.
STRUCTURE OF VITAMIN B12
As a biochemist, I like to look at the chemical structure of things to try to figure out what is going on. Looking at the structure of vitamin B12, it looks like a spider web with cobalt metal at the center. All I can really tell from looking at it is that the cobalt atom really likes to bind to nitrogen, and that the structure appears to have some sort of ucleic acid and phosphate group at the bottom connecting it possibly to phosphate energy systems and nucleic acids like DNA & RNA.
Sure enough after learning more about vitamin B12, I found out it is connected to energy pathways in the kreb’s cycle (biochemical energy pathway) and to DNA & RNA synthesis. The R group on the cobalt can be a methyl group (-CH3), and the two pathways discussed in video below involve how the body uses cobalt to rearrange methyl groups which is important for metabolism for making genetic code and protein via methionine amino acid.
Methylated DNA is inactivated DNA, so with the ability move methyl groups around with cobalt in cobalmin, vitamin B12 could even play a role in gene expression though that line of though is beyond the scope of this article.
HOW DOES THE BODY ABSORB AND USE VITAMIN B12
There are a lot of other nutritionists who have spend a lot more time studying Vitamin B12 than me, so check out this excellent 8 min video which explains how Cobalmin is absorbed and used in the body. If you don’t want to watch the video just read my comments below:
VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/HDtXNo-FQno?si=NaUMP3H7ZpA5fYEk
VITAMIN B12 ABSORPTION: MAXIMUM EFFORT!
Something is terribly wrong with B12 because you would think that our body could directly make B12 from cobalt but it can’t. Instead we are forced to rely on eating meat & eggs to get vitamin B12 naturally which makes me wonder which if any animals can make B12 and how did they get it if they couldn’t make it? Vegetarians and Vegans can have a hard time getting enough B12 and may need to eat nutritional yeast or other special diet to get enough. The pathway for Vitamin B12 to absorb into the body seems surprisingly complex requiring lots of transport proteins. Most notable there is a step where Potassium K+ is needed for B12 absorption and that is important as many people are also K+ deficient unless they are adding Potassium Chloride instead of just Sodium Chloride to their salt. The human body does not appear to be able to deal with cobalt metal directly instead needing it bound in cobalmin and to chaperone proteins at almost all time in part because of how cobalmin is water soluble, so chaperones make it able to pass through intestines and enter cells via endocytosis. Just getting B12 into the body via the gut appears to be quite the ordeal: acidic pepsin protein in the stomach is used to separate protein bound B12 in food and then a protein in our saliva called the R-binder (Haptocorrin) is used to re-bind B12 in the stomach as R-binder-B12-complex. Parietal cells in the stomach need potassium to release acid (H+) and produce another protein called intrinsic factor which is absorbed in along with the R-binder-B12 complex which is then exposed to pancreatic proteases (proteins from the pancreas) secreted into the higher pH of the duodenum part of the intestine cleaving off the R-binder protein allowing the B12 to bind to the intrinsic factor (IF) froming IF-B12 complex which travels along the small intestine to the very end called the illeum where it is taken up by mucosal receptors which can absorb the vitamin B12 intrinsic factor complex. So absorbing cobalamin seems to require maximum effort by the digestive system using every part of it almost it seems from chewing, saliva, stomach acid, using the full length of the intestine with chaperone proteins R-binder and then intrinsic factor the whole way! Once finally inside the body in the illeum final part of the intestine, the intrinsic factor is degraded and free vitamin B12 circulates in the blood until it is bound by a transport protein called transcobalmin.
VITAMIN B12 USAGE
Vitamin B12 – Transcobalmin complex is taken up from the blood by every cell in the body by receptor mediated endocytosis. Like iodine nutrient, every cell in the body needs vitamin B12 because it has a use in the mitochondria which every proper cell has for energy.
VITAMIN B12 LIVER STORAGE
The most shocking thing I learned is that the liver can store up to a 3-5 years supply of vitamin B12! So if you are low on B12 as evidenced by you feeling an energy boost when you take vitamin B12, that it means your liver is probably out of vitamin B12, and you are REALLY LOW! It’s like our liver is like a giant gas tank for cobalmin, and yet so many of us are walking around on empty! That’s ridiculous. No wonder my friend & colleague Dr. Calin Pop MD, an internal medicine doctor, recommends such high does of vitamin B12 because most people really need it and need excess to try to start filling up their liver vitamin B12 gas tank! *I get my vitamin B12 naturally from meat and eggs which I eat daily, but I still supplement B12 in the Power Source One multivitamins I get from Dr.Pop.
RDA FROM VITAMIN B12 IS OFF BY SEVERAL ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
Dr.Pop’s vitamins are recommending 41,667% DV Vitamin B12 (as methylcobalamin) if I did all 4 capsules a day, but I’ve only been doing 1 a day so I’m gonna up my dosage! If my liver is supposed to have a 3-5 years supply of B12 then I should be able to go 2-3 years without taking B12 before I should notice a difference in being low on it when taking more. If you are only doing 100% RDA Vitamin B12 then you are likely about 1000x+ too low in vitamin B12. This is the most shocking failure in nutrition in mainstream medicine nutrition I’ve ever seen is much worse even than iodine with is only off 2-4x but not 10x or 100x or shockingly 1000x like with vitamin B12! I highly recommend and endorse the Power Source One multivitamins formulated by Dr. Calin Pop, so contact me if you need them or visit his website PowerSourceOne.com as these are the multivitamins I use to go along with the iMedDo Detox System. For more information examining all the ingredients in PSOne multivitamins with commentary by myself and Dr.Pop read my old newsletter comparing Breastmilk & Multivitamins.
HOW VITAMIN B12 IS USED IN THE BODY
Based on the video above, now that vitamin B12 is absorbed into the cells around the body as B12-transcobalmin complex, how is it used? Vitamin B12 along with another vitamin folate, play a big role in DNA and RNA synthesis. Vitamin B12 is involved in the methionine cycle and the folate cycle. Vitamin B12 is a co-factor with an enzyme called methionine synthase which help drive (energetically) reaction in the two cycles. The folate cycle is important for DNA & RNA synthesis as they donate methyl (CH3) groups to form nucleotides adenine and guanine, and drives a reaction to synthesize nucleotide thymidine.
Vitamin B12 specifically is a cofactor with an enzyme called methly-malonyl-CoA mutase which is used to catalyze methylmalonyl-CoA into succinyl-CoA which is used in the Kreb’s cycle to generate more energy (generating GTP i.e. guanosine triphospate) which is a reaction that occurs in the mitochondria of the cell.
HOW VITAMIN B12 IS USED IN THE BODY SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION
It looks like what the cobalt in vitamin B12 is really doing is helping to transfer methyl groups around in the body (CH3 i.e. one carbon with three hydrogens) used for genetic code manipulation. It’s also making methionine amino acid which is one of the two sulphur containing amino acids used for detox (cysteine is the other). So B12 is at a critical point between genetic code and protein function. But it doesn’t just participate, it seems to provide energy. I’m not clear if the B12 molecule itself carries energy or not but it could, but it does act as a co-factor in the Kreb’s cycle with another enzyme which ultimately is making more of a chemical (succinyl-CoA) which is used to make the energy molecule GTP, which is a preferred energy molecule for RNA synthesis. RNA is believed to be older than DNA, so the action of Cobalt to intersect RNA, and sulphur containing amino acid methionine, and energy with GTP in such a nexus way combined with how fancy it’s absorption pathway is indicates that it’s very ancient. The fact our body can’t make vitamin B12 but our digestive tract appears fully adapted for maximum effort to get vitamin B12 indicates that this is truly a very essential vitamin.
COBALT DEFICIENCY SHOW ABNORMAL BLOODWORK & BRAINWORK
According to the video, you can easily see B12 deficiency on bloodwork because you will have elevated homocysteine (from methionine not being made) and elevated methylmalonyl-CoA (from succinyl-CoA not being made) when you don’t have enough vitamin B12 cofactor. Symptoms of low B12 are pretty obvious on bloodwork to pathologists as they can see large red blood cells and and abnormal white blood cells on the slide. The video mentions, but does not go into to much details, about how low B12 can also cause neurological problems. In particular it mentions that nerves can de-myelinate but doesn’t go into much detail on the vitamin B12 neursoscience. My understanding of this is simply that without iodine an vitamin B12 you body can’t detox, toxins build up in the nerves and cause the demyelination where not your nerves lack the insulation to conduct electro-chemical electricity correctly. In particular, I think arsenic heavy metal which is normally found with cobalt in the raw is the reason the body works so hard to get cobalt in a pure form which it only accepts as vitamin B12, and that iodine nutrition is very important for keeping your cobalt energy system working via arsenic detox. Cobalt energy system also make methionine amino acid which is used for detox as one of the two sulphur containing amino acids so detox and energy are synergistic just like brain detox and brain function are synergistic.
VITAMIN B12 ONLY COMES FROM BACTERIA
A key finding is that humans cannot make vitamin B12. We primarily get it from eating animals. So my question was can animals or plants make vitmain B12? Nope. Turns out vitamin B12 can only be made by bacteria and archea. This shows that cobalt chemistry is very ancient and goes back to the very beginning of life as cobalt can bind nitrogen and perhaps is important for nitrogen fixing bacteria. So I suspect that it might actually be possible for your gut bacteria to make vitamin B12 if you have your gut health right. Of course gut health is a very tricky topic and not really well understood at least not by me other than that you can do a gut reset with silver and that your body produces factors to keep good gut bacteria alive and and to kill bad gut bacteria. H. Pylori is the gut bacteria that is bad which is known to cause cancer which has to be detoxed or killed. Parts of the human intestines like the appendix could have served a function for providing a starter culture for good gut bacteria. A new definition of what we want our “good” gut bacteria i.e. probiotics or eubiotic microflora to be doing in our gut is to be making some good old vitamin B12 to fix cobalt metal in a usable form for us like “cobalt fixing” like how we think of “nitrogen fixing”. Clearly the gut bacteria of most humans is not providing enough vitamin B12, and we ahve to get from diet. But is is comforting to known that our gut bacteria could be making a little vitamin B12 for us. Because of gut disrupters in the food like glyphosate vitmain B12 absorbtion is likely even lower than normal which is part of the reason why most of us need a high does of vitamin B12 to be supplemented in multivitamins to support our diet.
ANEMIA
An exciting finding with cobalt is that cobalmin can be used to treat pernicious anemia. Previously when I thinking about anemia, I was thinking about iron, and it’s not surprising that cobalt the element which is right beside iron on the periodic table and shares many chemical properties with iron was the missing solution. You don’t just take free cobalt metal though, you take cobalmin, i.e. vitamin B12 where the cobalt metal is carefully packaged.
ARSENIC DISRUPTION OF COBALMIN
Because cobalt is most commonly in Co3+ state, the heavy metals arsenic As3+ which can form +3 ions can disrupt cobalmin nutrition. I suspect Aluminum which can also form +3 ions (Al3+) could also supress cobalmin but I need to look into that more to confirm.
Since arsenic can bind to and disrupt cobalt in cobalmin so iodine is needed to detox the arsenic which will also give more energy by un-suppressing the cobalmin’s GTP energy pathway as well as amplifying the ATP energy pathway. Cobalt as vitamin B12 is important for detox as it helps make the sulphur containing amino acid methionine which can support iodine in detoxing heavy metals.
VITAMIN B12 & IODINE ENERGY AT THE MITOCHONDRIA
Vitamin B12 reminds me a lot of my favorite nutrient iodine because they are both used by the mitochondria in an energy generation pathway. Iodine is used to make more ATP (via activated thyroid hormone increasing mitochondrial metabolism) and Vitamin B12 is used to make more GTP (via succinyl-coa in kreb’s cycle which also happens in the mitochondria).
KREBS CYCLE
I first learned about the Krebs cycle when I took college level biochemistry from Texas A&M University back in 2003. It’s a bit confusing at first but what’s going on as simple as I can explain it is that it’s a way that the body extracts energy from hydrocarbons by oxidizing carbon atoms and spitting out carbon dioxide (fully oxidized ie energy depleted carbon). The way the body stores the energy that it extracts from the carbons (3 carbon molecule pyruvic acid and 6 carbon, 5 carbon and 4 carbon products down the line) is using a variety of energy storage molecules. It stores energy in Hydrogens as NADH (emphasis on the H), and FADH2 (emphasis on the two H’s) , and in the more standard way to store energy in phosphate bonds as ATP (adenosine triphosphate), and what the more simplified view on the left doesn’t show is the important part that after succinyl CoA made using vitmain B12 cofactor that the Kreb’s cycle also store energy as GTP (guanosine-tripohosphate) an energy storage molecule that I’ve been overlooking until I started thinking about how cobalt in vitamin B12 provides more energy! I don’t expect my readers to learn the Krebs cycle unless you just love biochemistry as I do, but I do want you to known that the body uses many forms of energy including electrons, protons, and phosphate groups, and of these whereas iodine ultimately amplifies ATP energy storage molecule, that cobalt as cobalmin vitamin B12 ultimately amplfies GTP energy storage molecule.
CELLULAR RESPIRATION
Biochemistry looks complicated but ultimately what is going on is that the body is extracting energy from carbon-carbon bonds, and using the Kreb’s cycle to store the energy in other forms such as chaperoned hydrogens (NADH and FADH2) and stored in phosphate bonds (ATP and GTP). The mitochondria then uses the chaperoned hydrogen stored energy to prime the the Electron transport chain where it uses stored energy from diffusing hydrogens across a gradient and electrons to power a super motor (ATP synthase) to make a massive amount of ATP energy. The way cobalt as cobalmin Vitamin B12 plays into all of this is to help make succinyl-CoA which is used to make the 4 carbon Succinate in the Kreb’s cycle.
COMPARING VITAMIN B12 AND IODINE ENERGY
The energetic thing that Vitamin B12 does is to stimulate the Kreb’s Cycle at succinyl-CoA. The Kreb’s cycle is used to make more energy stored as chaperoned protons (NADH & FADH2) which is used to prime the mitochondrial electron transport chain which is a super engine for making massive amounts of ATP. What Iodine does in activated thyroid hormone T3 is to stimulate mitochondria genesis to make more mitochondria and to check that the mitochondrial electron transport chain is working or if not. So Vitamin B12 can give you energy by making the mitochondria work better and Iodine can give you energy by making even more mitochondria! So you need vitamin B12 for maximum iodine energy. Without Vitamin B12 Kreb’s cycle will be slowed down, less energy to prime the pump and less ATP generated by the mitochondria and iodine might shut it down.
LOW ENERGY RESULTS IN CANCER
Just like when you get low energy from low iodine you can get cancer, you can very likely get cancer from low energy from low vitamin B12. The theory behind vitamin B12 is that since it drives DNA/RNA synthesis that cells which more rapidly divide such as blood cells are more effected by B12 deficiency. But cancer cells also rapidly divide and since they are low energy they are forced to rely on older and alternative energy pathways to survive. Having low energy puts pressure on cells to seek alternative energy sources some of which become cancer cells in an attempt to do so. Starved of ATP from low iodine, or starved for GTP from low vitamin B12, cells may become cancerous by using anaerobic energy pathways making use of NADH giving up on trying to amplify energy at mitochondria into more ATP. The solution is to give your body more energy and oftentimes it can use that energy to suppress and kill cancer. Iodine not only stimulates more ATP by stimulating mitochondria growth, but it also checks to make sure the mitochondria electron transport chain is working correctly using iodine as an alternative final electron acceptor to oxygen is my current theory. Like iodine, vitamin B12 can help the mitochondria function to make more energy as GTP, so taking B12 and iodine for cancer is very helpful. In addition both ATP and GTP require magnesium as the negatively charged tri-phoshates in each are stablilized with Mg2+ ion, so taking magnesium also helps with energy. Taking potassium K+ helps vitamin B12 absorb in the gut, and if you take iodine, magnesium and potassium together you can get optimum energy out of taking your vitamin B12.
LOW VITAMIN B12 FROM GUT & DRUG INTERACTIONS: DIABETES
Anything that disrupts your gut can disrupt your vitmamin B12 absorption. Glyphosate in the food certainly doesn’t help, and a common diabetes drug metformin is known to block vitamin B12 absorption as well. Many diabetics suffer from tingling sensation in extremities which is also a symptom of low vitamin B12.
WHY IS COBALT A NUTRIENT AND NOT A HEAVY METAL
Cobalt metal would be toxic except that it isn’t since early life evolved to use it for very fundamental biochemistry. Free cobalt would be toxic except the body uses it in a contained form called cobalmin where the cobalt metal is inside of a nitrogen cage as coblamin which the body keeps safely chaperoned with other proteins most of the time. Vitamin B12 is water soluble, so it can dissolve in the blood an there is also a chaperone protein for it in the blood as well. So cobalt is a nutrient not a heavy metal, but you don’t supplement cobalt metal or cobalt ions directly, instead you supplement vitamin B12 which has cobalt in it.
CONCLUSION
Cobalt is named after a kobold goblin by a misnomer which is really about toxic arsenic heavy metal. Taking iodine along with silver and gold in iMedDo detox system will keep the arsenic As3+ detoxed so that your cobalt as Co3+ can function optimally in vitamin B12. The percent daily value recommendation from the government are off by more than 1000 fold which is ridiculous as you need much much much more vitamin B12 than the government says you do. How much? I follow the recommendations of DrCalin Pop whose multivitamin recommends 1000 mcg vitamain B12 which is 41,667% DV. That may sound high, but it’s not, thats correct as the government DV is off not even in the right ball park on vitamin B12 which is injuring the health of many Americans. I hope and pray that this issue will get addressed in the new Make America Healthy Again Administration with RFKJr as HHS Secretary as the %DV needs to be adjusted to where 1000 mcg is 100% DV not 41,66% DV as that confuses people into not taking enough vitamin B12. The reason so much more vitamin B12 is needed is that your liver is capable of storing years supply of vitamin B12 so there is no reason to be deficient, you need to work on restoring your supply by taking large doses of vitamin B12, and extra is needed to compensate for all the gut disrupting chemicals in the food water and air. Taking potassium K+ such as having potassium chloride salt, not just sodium chloride salt helps vitamin B12 absorb, and taking magnesium helps stabilize both the GTP energy created by the vitamin B12 and ATP energy created by enhanced mitochondrial function from both vitamin B12 and iodine. Cobalt nutrition is all about understanding cobalmin, vitamin B12, and so I thank you all for reading and hope you have learned something and will join me in prayer and action to Make America Healthy Again with the iMedDo Detox System and nutritional awareness.
Namaste,
DrBenGo Healthwarrior (Aron Benjamin Goins)
Executive Director
iMedDo Foundation
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