Benfotiamine: Why Every Diabetic Should Take It
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 3 March 2020
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In this podcast, we’re going to cover what you need to know about a nutrient called benfotiamine.
What is benfotiamine?
Benfotiamine is a synthetic B1. Vitamin B1 is naturally water-soluble. Benfotiamine is a fat-soluble B1 vitamin. This is one of the only synthetic vitamins that I like because it has virtually no side-effects. I believe every diabetic should be taking benfotiamine. Vitamin B1 is involved in the engine in the mitochondria that involves glucose metabolism. The more glucose you have running through the machine, the higher the blood sugar, and the more depleted of vitamin B1 you’re going to become.
With diabetes, there are four main tissues involved, and B1 can help with all of them:
1. Nerves/brain - Neuropathy
2. Eyes - Retina
3. Kidney - Nephron
4. Heart vessels - Microvascular endothelial dysfunction
Benfotiamine:
• 3-5x more absorption
• Protects against oxidation and AGEs
• Decreases A1C
• Protection
When it comes to benfotiamine dosage, consider taking at least 600mg of benfotiamine per day, and you can spread it out. You should also be doing healthy keto and intermittent fasting.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Today we're going to talk about a nutrient called benphotamine, and this is a |
| 0:48.9 | synthetic B1. B1 is naturally water sible. This is a fat sible B1, and yes, it is made synthetically, |
| 1:00.2 | but this is one of the only synthetic vitamins that I would recommend because it has |
| 1:04.5 | virtually no side effects. And I believe every single diabetic should be taking benphotamine. |
| 1:10.3 | And here's why. Because vitamin B1 is |
| 1:12.9 | intimately involved in the little mini engine in your mitochondria that involves the glucose metabolism. |
| 1:21.2 | And the more glucose that you have running through that machine, the higher the blood sugar, |
| 1:26.2 | the more depleted of B1 you're going to |
| 1:29.3 | become. And with diabetics, there's four main tissues that are involved. The nerves and brain, |
| 1:37.2 | the eyes, the kidney, and the heart vessels. And it just so happens that benphotamine can help |
| 1:43.7 | you with each one of them. Now, because |
| 1:45.7 | Benphotamine is fat-siable, it can penetrate three to five times deeper into the nerves and your |
| 1:52.4 | brain and it can really create some really cool effects. Its main function is it protects against |
| 1:59.1 | oxidation. And this is really the problem with diabetes. |
| 2:04.7 | You have so much glucose involved that the amount of oxidation is so high, you're getting |
| 2:09.1 | all sorts of free radical damage, you're getting complications, all the tissues start breaking |
| 2:14.1 | down simply because of the oxidation of glucose. Well, any type of B1 will |
| 2:18.8 | counter that, but benphotamine goes a little bit deeper. Benphotamine will also reduce |
| 2:24.1 | advanced glycation end products. Now, what is that? When you combine glucose with the protein |
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