Vitamin B6 from pyridoxal-5-phosphate or B6 from pyrioxine hydrochloride? What's!
Question:
Vitamin B6 from pyridoxal-5-phosphate or B6 from pyrioxine hydrochloride? What's the difference?
What are the factors to consider in choosing between these 2 forms of B6? My multi-vitamin has 40mg of B6 as pyrioxine hydrochloride. The B-complex that i might start taking has 10mg of B6 from p-5-p.
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Vitamin B6 is also known as Pyridoxine. (Pyridoxine is not niacin or niacinimide which are B3, BTW!). Pyridoxine delivered in a regular B complex is usually pyridoxine hydrochloride, which is designed to break down in the stomach. However, many people have difficulty, nonetheless, breaking down and utilitizing many of the B vitamins, which require co-enzymes for them to become bioavailable. That is why many companies are now starting to use a co-enzyme form of B vitamins in place of regular ones. Pyridoxal-5-phosphate is simply B6 in the co-enzyme form or coenzyme B6.