Vitamin B1 and SUGAR Experiment: WARNING

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Are you participating in a vitamin B1 and sugar experiment unknowingly? Some common ailments may stem from a vitamin B1 deficiency caused by too much sugar. In this video, I’ll explain how sugar depletes B1 and could leave you deficient.

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High-sugar diets can significantly affect your vitamin B1 levels. A vitamin B1 deficiency can cause fluid retention and lactic acid buildup, which can show up as restless legs syndrome. Many complications associated with diabetes type 1 and type 2 are related to vitamin B1 deficiency.

Vitamin B1, or thiamine, supports a healthy nervous system and the process that turns fuel into usable energy in the body.

Here are some of the warning signs of vitamin B1 deficiency:

•Nervous tension

•Irritability

•Restlessness

•Brain fog

•Air hunger

•Numbness on the bottom of feet and/or fingertips

•Hand tremors

•Confusion

•Low pulse rate

•Personality changes

•Low tolerance to stress

•Loss of coordination

•Headaches

•Constipation

•Insomnia

Allithiamine is a fat-soluble natural form of vitamin B1, which easily permeates the cell membrane and the blood-brain barrier. Benfotiamine is a fat-soluble form of vitamin B1 that may be beneficial for people with blood sugar issues.

Pork, beef, organ meats, eggs, fish, and nuts are the best food sources of vitamin B1. Unfortified nutritional yeast is also a good source.

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0:00.0	Warning, do not try this at home. I'm talking about the experiment between sugar and what sugar does to
0:06.2	Vitamin B1. And the average person in the US is definitely doing this experiment unknowingly.
0:12.2	And so today we're going to talk about what this experiment is unknowingly. And so today we're going to talk about what this experiment is in
0:14.7	relationship to what high levels of carbohydrates do to certain nutrients, specifically
0:22.0	vitamin B1 and all the consequences that occur from that.
0:25.5	And of course the sugar I'm talking about at the top of the list is the refined sugars,
0:29.1	but not only that, there's hidden sugars, like starches. A starch is really sugar if you're consuming the
0:34.7	starch that is in most foods in the US. So it's a combination of those starches and sugars that
0:40.4	will deplete your B1 and create all sorts of symptoms that you might think are connected to something else,
0:47.0	but they're merely a Vitamin B1 deficiency.
0:50.0	But let me just touch on my personal story with sugar and be one.
0:53.7	Growing up I lived on a lot of sugar.
0:56.1	But further along my 20s, I met my future wife.
0:58.4	We ended up at a restaurant and we both consumed a tremendous amount of pasta, pizza, wine, and one of the waiters was going past us with a dessert tray.
1:09.4	And he said this, before I throw these out, do you want to sample any of these desserts?
1:14.0	I was raised, you never want to waste food.
1:16.0	So of course we sampled every single dessert.
1:19.0	Now, as I drove home that night, I had this thought,
1:22.0	I think I ate too much sugar. I put my head on the pillow and what do I hear
1:26.0	Pounding in my inner ear just my heart is just pounding like crazy
1:30.2	But you would think I would learn from that situation.
1:33.2	No, I continue to consume pasta, breads, cereals, crackers,
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