Not only do xenoestrogens cause a low sex drive, but they also lead to a Vitamin B deficiency. This Vitamin B deficiency also leads to Nerve Disease or a neuropathy since nerves need Vitamin B for maintenance and nourishment. This may feel like tingling in the fingers or legs. This usually happens with longstanding xenoestrogen exposure, being vegan, and a stomach absorption problem. The stomach absorption problem could be due to a wheat allergy known as celiac disease.
In celiac disease, you have a wheat allergy and then develop antibodies against your own intestines. The insides of the intestines become “burnt”. Then you have difficulty absorbing all nutrients including Vitamin B.
My wife developed tingling fingers with a malabsorption and not enough Vitamin B. She had celiac disease. Celiac disease is a genetic disease. Both her sisters had similar condtions of mucous in the sinuses resulting in sinus headaches and ringing in the ears.
If the Vitamin B deficiency is due to xenoestrogens, then the Vitamin B deficiency will also be accompanied by low libido. Eliminating xenoestrogens will boost libido.
Xenoestrogens alone without malabsorption will cause a Vitamin B deficiency. Xenoestrogens alone will also make for low sexual desire.
It can be labeled as Restless Leg Syndrome.
Restless Leg Syndrome is where you have an odd tingling or creepy crawling sensation on your fingers, arms, torso or legs. Walking or moving the legs brings temporary relief to the uncomfortable feeling. Night can mean hundreds of jerky, involuntary movements which means chronic sleep deprivation. The odd tingling feeling of neuropathy is combined with a magnesium deficiency to give muscle spasms in the legs. The tingling burning sensation can last for hours and worsens at night. 60% of suffers have a positive family history for Restless Leg Syndrome. Sufferers describe it as “bone itch”, “bugs crawling in my legs at night”, and “tortured limbs”.
20% of Restless Leg Syndrome patients have an iron deficiency. So a ferritin blood level should be done.
All Vitamin Bs are water soluble so if you take an excess amount, you just urinate out the excess (Vitamin B6 is the exception - see below). I usually recommend taking a Vitamin B-100 in the morning. Do NOT take Vitamin B just before bed time, otherwise you will have vivid dreams. Take the Vitamin B-100 in the morning.
In general, Vitamin Bs are water soluble so there is no danger of over dose. It just washes out of the body. The exception to this generalization is Vitamin B6. There has been no neurologic damage to patients at doses below 200 mg/day of B6. And adverse effects have only been reported from B6 supplements not from natural food sources. Although B6 is water soluble and excreted in the urine, excessive Vitamin B6 has been associated with destruction of the dorsal root ganglia in test animals. Clinically, there has been irreversible painful neurological problems.
Daily doses of B6 of over 500 mg/day for several months resulted in sensory neuropathy in a few case reports. This sensory neuropathy resolved after stopping the Vitamin B6 after several months.
Vitamin B6 is the only B Vitamin known to produce disease when taken to excess.
I usually recommend my patients to take a Vitamin B-100 to help with the neuropathy or even if they just suffer from estrogen dominance.
Estrogen dominance is too much estrogen. The “too much” estrogen caused from environmental estrogens or xenoestrogens also causes low libido in addition to Vitamin B deficiency. Eliminating xenoestrogens boosts libido.
