Vitamin B1: Synthetic vs. Natural – Dr. Berg

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hi guys I recently had a question what is the difference between synthetic B1 and natural B1 okay well first of all B1 is so important when you do keto and in minute fasting um B1 has the power to protect uh your arteries from the damage of high sugar and high insulin it can protect the milein sheath in the nervous system from the dangers of high sugar and high insulin and so when you’re deficient in B1 you get all sorts of problems inside the artery which can build up to a clot you get all sorts of damage within the nervous system which leads to peripheral neuropathies B1 is amazing to pull stress out of the body and to make you feel less stressful um but when you consume sugar you deplete B1 and when you consume refined grains you really deplete B1 and you start getting all sorts of symptoms um that are called like berry berry you can look it up but synthetic B1 uh is made from colar ammonia acet hydrochloric acid and some other chemicals um it’s not the same as natural um thyine Manon nitrate or thyine hydrochloride is the name of the synthetic B1 uh 85% of the world’s B1 comes from China they make it so so cheap and uh it’s in all the prenatals it’s in the one aays children’s vitamins uh vitamins for older people I mean it’s in so many different things that’s what they use to enrich the flour products the grains the pasta it’s all enriched with synthetic B vitamins so there’s only two exceptions that I would recommend taking synthetic vitamins number one if you’re doing a detoxification okay and that’s a different reason than some maintenance dose of B1 okay that’s one exception and the other is let’s say you have peripheral neuropathy and you have pain in the feet or the fingertips and you want to take something called benine which is a fat suble B1 product um then go ahead and take it because there’s really no side effects uh from that product but in general don’t take this as a maintenance I don’t recommend it get it from nutritional yeast and also when you’re trying to determine if something’s synthetic or natural uh go ahead and look at the ingredients um if it doesn’t come from food or nutritional yeast and has a bunch of chemicals then we know it’s synthetic if the numbers are all whole numbers like 100 let’s say it’s a b complex like 100 milligrams of B1 100 milligrams of B2 100 milligrams of B3 or 50 milligrams it’s all whole numbers you know it’s synthetic okay so the best source of natural B vitamins especially B1 is from nutritional yeast thanks for watching so I want to know what you’re interested in as far as a future video click the link down below and share some ideas I want to hear