What is Thiamine? What It Really Does!

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In this video I'm going to talk about what is thiamine and how it's beneficial. If someone doesn't have enough of this vitamin it can cause something known as beriberi.

Beriberi can lead to an increased heart rate or heart failure. It can also negatively affect nerves and muscles leading to a bunch of problems.

A gentleman named William Fletcher in 1905 discovered something in the husks of rice that prevented this disease and can you guess what that was? Yes it was thiamine and that was how it was uncovered. You might know it by the name of vitamin B1.

In 1912 a gentleman named Casimir Funk took Fetchers findings as well as evidence that oranges prevented scurvy and created the term vitamin. B1 being it was the first B discovered.

Vitamin B1 is a water-based vitamin and this means we need a continuous supply of it because it gets flushed out of our system daily. A large way the body uses this substance is to convert carbohydrates into energy. It also plays a role in creating hydrochloric acid for your digestive system. This acid is so strong that if it wasn't for mucous membranes that protect the stomach lining it would digest the stomach.

Next up this vitamin assists in controlling the flow of electrolytes in and out of the cells of the nerves and muscles. This is why if someone doesn't consume enough of this vitamin it can negatively affect the heart rate and lead to fatigue, trouble with thinking and even breathing difficulties.

Apart from needing this vitamin just to function normally, it can also provide some nifty health benefits like helping with depression. Scientist at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences looked at 1,500 men and women between the ages of 50-70. Then they used questionnaires to determine whether the participants had depressive tendencies and measured the amount of thiamine in their diet. The result was that the participants with the lowest thiamine intake were one and a half times more likely to suffer from depression.

If that wasn't enough there is some evidence that it can prevent cataracts. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine a study of 2,9000 Australian men and women discovered that those who where to the top one fifth of thiamin intake were 40% less likely to have nuclear cataracts than the one fifth of participants that took the least.

To sum everything thiamine is a water-based vitamin that converts carbohydrates into energy, helps digestion, assists with the health of nerves, prevents depression and cataracts.

[joecastles]

Standard process has changed my called cataplex B

[altair]

Sir are u a doctor? You have great medicine clips!!

[jrno]

I have 100 mg thiamine tabs and been taking 1 tab every morning for a week do you think 100mg is overkill since 1.2mg a day is the daily recommendation or would it be no issue to take daily for say a year straight. I also don't eat anything throughout the day with thiamine mostly just chicken breast and am a moderate drinker (1-2 days a week of heavy drinking.

[theboss-vrjj]

i find it causes appitite loss in higher doses

[hayleyedmonds]

What a lovely smile u have! Thanks for the info im currently on 100 mg is that a lot in on tablet form

[cam]

I have some thiamin mononitrate coming which is a synthetic form. I'm
concerned that it's not as good as some other versions, but probably
similar to HCL, since it's a modified derivative. I also have
methylcobalamin (B12), methylfolate, and P5P (B6) coming.
My usage revolves around mental and general fatigue as opposed
to peripheral neuropathy. Thank-you for the clip.