Vitamin B12: Magic Metabolic Molecule
Beginning The Engineering Process
Your body is a machine and your metabolism is a function.
Your organs are the aggregate of conjoined tissues, that are conjoined cells, which are conjoined molecules, which are conjoined atoms.
The only difference between cell absorption and oral absorption is the sophistication of materials; it is ultimately the same process at different magnitudes.
Your oral tissue systems breakdown your food chemicals in preparation for more extreme chemical reactions further downstream in the digestive tract. The food is jettisoned to your lower intestines for macromineral absorption. The pillaging process.
To begin engineering your diet you first examine your excretion.
Yes, I mean bathroom time.
If you are looking to lose weight, you will need to initiate a caloric deficit. The easiest way to begin a caloric deficit (a diet! 😂 ) is picking a day and skipping breakfast. With your usual daily caffeine you will likely excrete a meal or two, and feel mental clarity as your body has less food in its digestive system for your quantum computer (brain) to manage.
You will want to only use sugar-free stimulants in the mornings and for your workouts (if you do caffeine and stimulants.) Whatever you are consuming needs to be net 0 calories.
Notes on Vitamin B12
An important factor in a weight loss journey is monitoring how many meals you pass before you go to the gym. Given that the body is a machine and metabolism is a function, digestion is a process that takes a specific amount of time.
If you are employing a pre-workout or stimulant rich in Vitamin B12, know that it is not just a nootropic. It has also been proven to aid in metabolic processes that involve heavy cellular turnover.
That includes blood cells and muscle tissue. Fasting before the gym in the morning and supplementing vitamin B12 will accelerate (maximize) the speed of your metabolic and digestive processes. Think of this as slamming on the metabolic gas pedal.
Accelerating the speed of your metabolic processes not only speeds up the absorption of food; it also speeds healing and building.
It as a simple function of the time required to process the food and get rid of it, and your ability to manipulate that. Just because you can feel digestion happening doesn’t make it any less of a boring enzymatic chemical process that can be modified.
When you are excreting food, your body has exhausted all there is to absorb from it. What’s healed is healed and what’s built is built. Certain materials don’t work in your digestive system (ie lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance, etc.) because of the underlying enzymes that your body is or is not able to produce. For the purpose of this exercise, we are examining this with respect to accelerating your metabolism.
If you are beginning a weight loss journey, you start by employing biomarker meals for you to be able to tell how much time has elapsed between when you ate that meal, and when it was excreted.
A biomarker meal might be something with heavy lettuce or tomatoes, or something that you will actually recognize in the bathroom as the past tense of a meal you recently enjoyed. It’s really nothing to obsess about, it’s more of a passive note to self.
What I noticed over a 20-pound weight loss was that heavy amounts of stimulants laden with Vitamin B12 seemed to speed my digestion. Drinking liquefied B12 in high amounts was like pressing fast forward and my food would digest in half the time it would normally take, if not less.
If Vitamin B12 is an accelerator for processes involving cellular turnover, then you can indeed look at it as a metabolic tailwind. It is like taking a lung at 70% oxygen absorption efficiency and cranking it up to 100 with a flip of a switch. There a remarkable percentage gained in digestive and metabolic efficiency when supplementing B12.
You might look at B12 as an enhancement to the digestive process. It is not a laxative, because it is not moving materials along by force. It seems to be an ingredient that aids in breaking the food down.
By making B12 amply available, your body may reach a point that is satisfactory with regard to needs for minerals, and so it can then speed the material (food) along to the next stage. It may be that the vitamin is hijacking the brain by telling it that the absorption process is complete, causing the food to the discarded. Or it could be that cyanocobalamin causes hemoglobin to be produced faster, and enables the body to discard old/dead blood cells faster. You have inserted a high concentration of this mineral into an otherwise closed system of organic internal combustion, and you are also fine-tuning absorption to maximal efficiency.
You could at it like octane in gasoline, but a turbo is more appropriate. Octane in gasoline causes it the process to burn hotter, but octane accomplishes this by delaying combustion.
A turbo on the other hand accelerates the combustive process by forcing in more oxygen than could be provided by ordinary intake. However, neither is truly satisfactory, as B12 is raising the efficiency of the absorption process and making the food you eat more easily digestible by breaking the food down into simpler compounds while satisfying metabolic (macro)mineral requirements.
The more of this vitamin you take the more you are going to accelerate your metabolism and all of the cellular processes, and ultimately reduce how much time it takes to repair muscle.
By employing consistent, fasted exercise and strict dieting: employing a caloric deficit and only two meals per day (plus an optional nightly snack to fill the stomach.)
— >That’s at least how I do it, but I also have a sweet tooth.
You notice overtime with consistent workouts in the morning and evening that you have a firmer grasp on your metabolism, and you are fully aware of what was the last meal you got rid, and you know exactly how much food is left in your body.
If you feel like you only got rid of one meal from yesterday, then drinking more micronized B12 can help accelerate metabolism and likely enable you to excrete another meal before a workout or before you leave the house.
You want to be using your passive metabolic functions, like digestion, to your advantage. You need to be opportunistic with your caloric intake and if you want to lose weight, you have to get used to the feeling of starving your body of calories at strategic times and tactically putting in calories ONLY after exertion. Of course life gets in the way and exceptions happen, but those exceptions only prolong your goal.
That is the crux and the lesson of this entire exercise: supplement the exertion first and the food second, instead of auto pilot eating breakfast/lunch/dinner mindlessly at the same time every day.
Overtime your body will adjust to regular workouts at regularly scheduled times, and you will notice that your metabolism and excretion also becomes synchronized with consistency and homogenization of your food choices.
Make exercise your first priority and force the food you eat to keep up with that, and you have created a demand-pull scenario with your calories — with respect to the direction of demand. You need the calories you’re eating, you’re not just eating scheduled meals for the sake of what time it is.
The simpler you keep your diet, the easier it is to keep track of, and the easier it will be for you to decide how much of a caloric deficit to employ, because you are now keeping track of ALL OF the foods that go into your body.
Ultimately, a weight loss journey is a defensive form of fitness as far as I would define it. You are defending against extra calories. Your goal is to lose weight and so it is advantageous for you to eat less than the daily recommended amount of calories, and employ fasting once your body has excreted its previous meals.
Because the vitamin B12 aids in metabolic processes, it is a good placeholder for physical food in between meals, but you can get light headed and foggy from lack of food after a long enough time frame. You need to be able to recognize when you’re suddenly in one of those scenarios.
With disciplined exercise and fine-tuned dieting primarily centered around exertion, you are commanding control of your metabolism, and dispelling with being a passive passenger.
By standardizing the times that you:
work out,
take your supplements,
eat
and excrete, you are getting hard quantifiable data on the number of calories going in and the number of calories that you burn through exertion (watch the calorimeter on the treadmill😂.)
If you are able to get to this point in the weight loss journey, this becomes simple biological economics.
If it takes burning 3000 calories to lose a pound, then it will take you six (6) days of exercising for one hour on the treadmill at 500 calories burned per pound. If you put in a 500 calorie high protein breakfast after that work out, then your breakfast is essentially free from a metabolic perspective.
If you can exercise again before your next meal that is ideal, but if you are in a restrictive work environment or lifestyle, do what makes sense for your own situation.
I will say, however, that employing two workouts per day, for two months and aiming for only two meals per day with placeholder calories at night (optional, like I said I eat sweets) you create a metabolic economic system for tapering and winding down the “balance sheet” that is your weight and body mass index.
You have increased work and decreasedcapital.
Once you reach your fitness goal, that is when you need to double down on the discipline, reassess the calories you put in and even taper the amount of B12 and stimulants, given that you do not need to lose as much weight.
However, I do find it advantageous to maintain the same lifestyle past a bodyweight or vanity goal.
You don’t want to just earn your physique. You want to keep it for life because your life only happens once.
The last thing you want to do is reach a defensive goal, such as weight loss, and then take a month off.
There are moments in your life of discipline, and there are moments of disarray.
Steering your life toward a majority of disciplined moments versus undisciplined moments is insurance against losing all of the gains and progress you just made.
Once you have reached a goal weight or physique, it is up to you to adjust how many times you work out per day, but ultimately what I have just outlined is the fast track to weight loss and acceleration of your metabolism by accommodating your own production of cellular processes heavy in turnover, again, like blood cells.
I want you know how to leverage your metabolism and take control of your life just a little bit more. When you are examining your activity and intake on a daily basis, you can influence the pace and progress of your own healing in the event of an injury, sprain or anything that happens to you in life or otherwise. I cannot thank you enough for reading this piece and I hope that I have given you an indispensable tool that you use to make your life as enjoyable and rewarding as humanly possible.
