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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Benfotiamine (Fat-Soluble B1): Benefits and Why It's So Unique

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

What is benfotiamine, and do we really need it? Learn more.


DATA: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546345/


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0:00.0

I'm sure you heard about this Benfotamine vitamin.

0:03.8

So what's all the hype in?

0:05.1

Do we really need it?

0:06.5

And what is it good for?

0:08.0

Benfotamine is a fat-syable B1.

0:12.1

Normally B1, called thymine, is water-syable.

0:16.0

And so there's several advantages

0:17.8

of having this vitamin in a fat-syable form.

0:20.3

Number one, it can penetrate membranes

0:22.3

that are made out of fat much easier

0:24.9

like by a factor of 360% more penetration.

0:29.0

So Benfotamine is really good for anything neurological,

0:33.1

anything brain, especially peripheral neuropathy

0:35.9

where you have the bottom of your feet,

0:37.4

tingling numbness, burning,

0:39.7

or that could be on the hands as well.

0:41.4

So what is it actually doing?

0:43.0

One of the big things it's doing,

0:45.0

it's inhibiting the formation of something called AGEs.

0:51.0

That stands for advanced,

0:52.7

classification, and products.

0:54.8

Now, what is that?

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