Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) Deficiency: The "Great Imitator" of other Illnesses
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr. Berg talks about vitamin B deficiency. Transketolase is the enzyme for vitamin B deficiency test. Enzymes are the things that do the work in the body and B1 is involved in 5 different enzymes. Vitamin B1 deficiency is called Beri Beri and known as a great mimicker of disease. He also talks about several reasons to why you become deficient in B1.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing |
| 0:11.3 | healthy weight. |
| 0:13.3 | Hey guys, today we're going to talk about vitamin B deficiency. |
| 0:26.7 | This is actually way more common than you might think. |
| 0:30.0 | The problem is when you do testing on this, a lot of times it won't show up in the |
| 0:33.4 | blood because the problem or the defect is in the enzyme that allows B1 to work. |
| 0:41.0 | If you wanted to get it tested, the enzyme you would get tested for would be transketolase. |
| 0:46.5 | It's just an enzyme that works with B1 in doing its function. |
| 0:52.7 | The problem is trying to find a lab that will test it's quite difficult. |
| 0:57.0 | Here's what B1 does generally. |
| 0:59.0 | It does a lot of things, but it's involved in five different enzymes to co-factor in |
| 1:04.5 | five enzymes. |
| 1:06.0 | Enzymes are the things that do the work in the body. |
| 1:08.6 | They're the workhorse. |
| 1:09.6 | It's involved in all sorts of bio, body, chemistry, or chemical reactions, especially in the |
| 1:14.6 | mitochondria, which is an energy factory. |
| 1:17.6 | B1 is essential to make those enzymes work. |
| 1:21.2 | So if you're deficient in B1, the enzymes don't work and you're going to get fatigue is |
| 1:25.3 | probably the most common symptom. |
| 1:27.5 | When you take vitamin B1, it seems to bring your energy right up most of the time. |
| 1:33.3 | Instead of going out and getting a test, it's much cheaper just to take B1 and see if |
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