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If you're drinking a lot of tea, you should be taking vitamin B1.

Now, I'm not necessarily talking about herb teas, I'm talking about black tea,

like Earl Grey tea, English breakfast tea, English afternoon tea, and Irish breakfast tea.

And there's quite a few others as well.

But the question is, why does tea deplete you of B1?

Because black tea has large amounts of canons, okay?

That's a chemical that inhibits the absorption of B1.

And as a side note, green tea is actually low in canons, so that's totally fine.

But black tea is the one you have to watch out for, because if you're consuming a lot of this tea

through the day, you can end up with a B1 deficiency.

But the first symptom of a B1 deficiency is nervous energy.

You may feel tense, you can't relax, kind of edgy.

And all you need to do is just take some B1.

I would highly recommend getting your B1 from nutritional yeast or some other natural source,

not a synthetic B1.

Now, other things can also deplete you of thymine or B1.

That would be red wine, grapes, coffee, sulfides, which actually is in dry fruit, and wine.

And it's used as a preservative, consuming fruit that's not ripe yet.

Caffeine, alcohol, and sugar all will deplete you of thymine B1.

Now, probably out of all these factors, sugar is probably at the top of the list,

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