Vitamin B Complex: Vitamin B6 ( Pyridoxine )

Leslie Wade, CNN Medical Producer

"Vitamin B6 ( Pyridoxine ) maintains a healthy nervous system. It regulates body fluids. It can relieve carpal tunnel syndrome and PMS symptoms, and even helps asthmatics. It is often called the "mood vitamin", because of its very importance for helping our brain and metabolism. A new study has shown Vitamin B6 may play a role in preventing cancer."

Additionally, Vitamin B6 is significant to the metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. It is also involved in the creation of Red Blood Cells and similarly used to make various Neuro-Transmitters. These function like messengers in the brain, which send signals throughout the nervous system.

So Vitamin B6 helps to promotes Brain Health, while it aids in improving your mood. Along with this, it also assists in improving Cognitive Functions and helps to delay deterioration of brain-related functions as we grow older.

The B Vitamins are water-soluable. This means that they are NOT stored in the body. So we need to consume enough of them every day, or take supplements.