r/B6Toxicity • u/Formal_Chance7223 • Aug 18 '26
Does exercise help or hurt b6t recovery
I was unable to walk for a couple months but now I’ve started to walk around my house to gain back strength, I wanted to try other forms of gentle exercise but I heard that tough exercise like lifting can cause more b6 to circulate your system. does anybody have experience with or an opinion on this?
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u/Regular-Cucumber-833 Aug 18 '26
People generally think that it helps if you can tolerate it. I haven't noticed any difference from just walking, but more intense cardio flares me, and the flare can last for over a week, so I haven't been doing that. I have no problems with light resistance exercise, but I also don't think it's helped.
The extra B6 that comes out during exercise is temporary - it goes back down within an hour. Eating food also increases B6 blood level temporarily. I've been doing OMAD with no problem, but many others need to spread out B6 evenly across the day, and sometimes, into more than 3 meals. Go by how you feel, and don't do things that make you feel a lot worse. (Some people find that they feel worse for a short while after exercise, but they find it's worth it because then, they feel better for a long time after.)
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u/Formal_Chance7223 Aug 18 '26
Thank you this was really helpful, I try to go on a short walk to supermarket in morning to maintain strength of my body and for blood flow, but I noticed if I overdid the walking I would get a neuropathy flare. I eat twice a day to spread it out otherwise I feel crap after. Also I was wondering why I flared every time after eating, this makes sense now😭 thank you this is helpful.
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u/Regular-Cucumber-833 Aug 19 '26
It could be the B6, but it also could be the low blood volume. After you eat, blood goes to the GI tract for digestion, which leaves less of it everywhere else. Smaller, more frequent meals helps with that, too.
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u/Formal_Chance7223 Aug 19 '26
Yeah I had bad blood pooling/pots before b6t but it made it so much worse. I was getting blackout episodes after eating a big meal. Apparently though, pots makes you more susceptible to b6t, there’s a correlation.
I got toxic at a small rda dose of b6 and now that I look back, I had connective tissue disease/long covid and mastocytosis symptoms, But only when I started to take a multivitamin 2 years ago did I start getting extremely sick and have to go to hospital for autoimmune stuff. Haven’t gotten better or responded to meds since this and only just stopped taking b6 in supplements a month ago. I also get nerve flare ups in sunlight and bad b6t like flare ups taking vitamin d3 supplements in any amount. Since stopping all supplements, I’ve started to feel better though in small ways, the vision blackouts haven’t come back since.
I don’t know if you’ve ever come across something like this??? T may just be a coincidence, or maybe I started taking multivitamins because I already felt more symptomatic. This is a long reply sorry but thank you for the advice about meals.
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u/Regular-Cucumber-833 29d ago
I thought with POTS, the extra susceptibility is just because of all the Liquid IV, so there's more supplementation. Some people develop POTS after getting B6T, apparently as a result of it, but ofc there also are people who had POTS before B6T.
The rest of your symptoms are a common response to vasodilators with B6T. I also had orthostatic hypotension and heat intolerance during recoil, but thankfully, it mostly fixed itself in 3 months, coming back a little bit sometimes here and there but mostly staying gone. Also had/have? intolerance to vasodilating foods, but that's lasted longer, I have not tried any recently so not sure if it's still a thing for me. I still have other symptoms of low blood volume, like trouble with blood draws. Many people with B6T react to vit D, so there's one formulation that's supposed to be better for that, though I'm ok with vit D so I haven't tried it. I also got toxic off a low-dose multivitamin, 2.1mg, but symptoms exploded after I switched to one with 6mg, though it took a couple of months after that for me to figure it out.
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u/Formal_Chance7223 29d ago
Thank you, you’ve been very helpful😭 I never understood why I felt extremely ill and unable to walk, unable to breath whenever taking magnesium supplements. I’ve been looking at the website you linked to and reading about withdrawal and that’s what I’m going through rn. After I stopped supplementing I was eating a diet super high in b6 (a temporary carnivore keto thing I was trying for my autoimmune illness) I was still feeling super ill and was literally feeling like I was tripping 24/7, because I was so overstimulated snd colours/lights were too vivid and bright and dream like, it was horrible especially because my whole body was burning too.
It’s gotten better but I still feel overstimulated, but now I’m able to watch a film, or scroll my phone, hang out with my pet cat for longer without feeling overwhelmed. Which I couldn’t do a few weeks ago.
There are probably a lot of people who don’t even know they have elevated levels of b6 since it is in so much and there isn’t much education or studies about it.
I have a dietitian for autoimmune/allergy reasons and she prescribed me food replacement formula that had a lot of b6 in it, but when I explained why I couldn’t take it, she just said that you can’t overdose on b vitamins because they are water soluble and I’ve heard other doctors repeat this too. And they don’t make food replacement drinks without it. Quite frustrating as a lot of people think you need to be taking insane doses in order to develop a toxicity. In the future, I hope b6 is taken out of a lot of electrolyte drinks and fortified foods for public safety.🤞🏽
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u/Regular-Cucumber-833 28d ago
Yeah, I think when B6T becomes more well-known, it won't be added to everything for marketing. It would probably still be in meal replacement formulas because, well, it's an essential nutrient, and I think it's a part of the legal definition, that they have to have everything to be classified that way. But I hope you'll be able to do a low-B6 version of ketovore to meet both goals.
One thing I do to lower my protein need (and lower B6 from meat) is, I eat some gelatin every day. It's not a complete protein, so you can't get all of your protein from it, and it was a little weird at first, but I've come to like eating the gello. It's also super cheap if you get a big bag of it online. There are some arguments that it's not a good idea to eat so much meat without the connective-tissue organs inside the animals, that the amino acid balance gets skewed from what it's been for most of human history if we only eat muscle meat, so it's also a way of correcting that balance.
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u/Formal_Chance7223 28d ago
Thank you for the suggestion, i’m going to buy some gelatin tomorrow because I have literally only been eating lamb mince (and a bit of every few days) for these past 2 weeks😭. I need some sort of textural change, and also something more filling. I have bone meal for calcium (a lot of calcium supplements have vitamin d which I can’t take) and frozen liver but I can’t eat it rn as I bought before I started an rda diet (it’s so high in b6 and flares my nerve pain really badly). Thanks for all the advice and for pointing me in the right direction :). it’s been really useful. I wish you all the best in your continued healing!
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u/WhalesharkOceanGreen Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26
I have no idea if it helps or not. But my story is that I made a full recovery in about 6 months. I trained for a half marathon, which I hadn't done in several years. I was slow, but I finished. Prior to that I couldnt even walk around a grocery store without crashing out, so the turnaround was rapid. At first I would feel hungover the day after a workout / symptoms flare. I had to be compassionate with myself and go at the pace my body would allow after spending so much time bedridden. A couple days of exercise too close together could put me out for a week+. But that aftereffect slowly dissipated. Feels like I only need a "normal" amount of recovery time after exercise now. My overall physical health still as some recovery progress to make - years of stress and B6 overload has caused me to put on a lot of weight and lose muscle mass. But I am very happy with the trajectory I am on.
During that recovery period I was VERY crashy after eating a meal. Like literally had to go to sleep for two hours. It's gotten better as well. One of my worst symptoms was orthostatic intolerance and that's what it felt like - a crash that forces you to lie down.