Inositol Facts
Inositol is a vitamin like molecule, water soluble, and often is considered a member of the B complex family of vitamins. It is not considered essential to life, but performs important functions in the body. It nourishes brain cells and helps metabolize fats and cholesterol. It also may improve the transmission of nerve signals. Caffeine may increase your need for inositol.

How Inositol Works
Inositol helps mobilize fat from the liver and around the internal orgains in weight loss. It plays an important role in nourishing brain cells. Inositol most likely participates in controlling the action of some chemical messengers in the individual cells and it may improve the transmission of electrical nerve signal in people with diabetic nerve damage and numbness.

Possible Benefits

• Helps metabolize fat and cholesterol
• Lowers blood cholesterol
• Helps prevent eczema
• Produces a calming effect
• Prevents hair from falling out and promotes healthy hair
• Nourishes the brain cells
• May improve nerve signal transmissions

Usage Guidelines
There is no established RDA for Inositol, but recommended amounts range from 10-500 mg. There is no toxicity known but it can cause stomach upset occasionally. Deficiency symptoms may include hair loss, constipation, scaly skin rashes, high cholesterol, and eczema.

Some Natural Sources
Brewer's yeast, lecitin, dark green leafy vegetables like spinach, turnip, mustard greens. Lentils, butter beans, dried lima beans, beef brains and heart, cantaloupe, grapefruit, raisins, wheat germ, unrefined molasses, peanuts, and cabbage