Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) Deficiency: The “Great Imitator” of Other Illnesses

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hey guys today we’re going to talk about vitamin b deficiency okay this is actually way more common than you might think the problem is when you do testing on this a lot of times it won’t show up in the blood because the problem or the defect is in the enzyme that allows b1 to work and just if you wanted to get it tested the enzyme you would get tested for would be trans-keto lace okay it’s just an enzyme that works with b1 in doing its function okay so but the problem is trying to find a lab that will test it’s quite difficult but anyway here’s what b1 does generally it does a lot of things but it’s involved in five different enzymes it’s a cofactor and five enzymes enzymes are the things that do the work in the body they’re the workhorse it’s involved in all sorts of bile body chemistry or chemical reactions especially in the mitochondria which is energy factory so b1 is essential to make those enzymes work so if you’re deficient in b1 the enzymes don’t work and you’re going to get fatigue is probably the most common symptom when you take vitamin b1 it seems to bring your energy right up most of the time and instead of going out and getting a test it’s much cheaper just to take b1 and see if you feel better chances are you’re going to feel better so in the next section i’ll talk about where to get b1 how much to take but in this section i’m going to talk about how many different systems it’s involved with b1 deficiency is called berry berry and it’s known as the great mimicker of disease because it mimics so many other body situations it’s incredible it’s very widespread i think probably if you are pre-diabetic if you have insulin resistance if you’re a diabetic you have a b1 deficiency if you drink alcohol on a regular basis you probably have a b1 deficiency if you have a high carbohydrate diet you probably have a b1 deficiency because that’s how you develop a b1 deficiency so you definitely need b1 when you actually digest carbohydrates so too many refined carbs are going to deplete that so it’s involved in making energy it’s also involved in protecting the cell and the mitochondria against oxidation or free radicals it’s kind of considered an antioxidant it also protects the cell against glycation which is basically when you combine a sugar with a protein or a sugar with a fat it develops like sticky protein it also protects you against developing amyloid plaquing in the brain that’s what you see in alzheimer’s so it’s kind of like a a protein that clogs up the brain’s neural function there’s an incredible book um by dr derrick longsdale md it’s i got the kindle book it was like 79 dollars very expensive well worth it i could not stop reading it fascinating now the first system i’m going to talk about is the cardiovascular and respiratory system these are some of the symptoms that you can develop if you’re b1 deficient in a large heart because the heart has to work harder and then what happens is the heart gets bigger and bigger uh increase pulse rate edema usually in the lower ankles and things so you press your lower ankle and you get this indentation you see that a lot in diabetics microvascular damage your nerves need a blood supply so if you’re deficient in b1 you’re going to starve the food supply to the nervous system that’s why you see something called peripheral neuropathy tingling burning and numbness and pain on your fingertips or the bottom of your feet okay so now let’s go to the digestive system you’ll feel a full sensation in your stomach like you’re always kind of stuffed you can get constipated gastroparesis now what is that that’s a condition where your digestive system is very sluggish foods going through very very slow gerd which is kind of like a the valve on the top of the stomach doesn’t close and you get acid that comes up through this way now these two conditions really come from low stomach acids hydrochloric acid and so vitamin b1 deficiency will create a situation where you have lower hcl hydrochloric acid thereby causing a sluggishness in the digestive system and causing gerd because it takes an acid stomach to keep that valve closed okay so you can see that it’s just so widespread it just goes way over here and it goes way over here and then the nervous system we talked about peripheral neuropathy but just neuritis in general any type of nerve pain or nerve damage that’s occurring b1 is very intimately involved in that okay vertigo which is kind of a dizziness when you actually stand up too fast or even when you’re standing and you feel like you know you’re on a ship that could be coming from a b1 deficiency and then it affects something called the autonomic nervous system this is like the the combination between the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system and these are the two systems that work on automatic so they do a lot of different things so you can imagine how many different symptoms can occur from a problem within this system it’s a very wide spread lack of tears okay excessive sweating or no sweating okay a lot of people have that and they don’t really know what it is and it’s hard to find the cause of that but usually it’s a b1 deficiency anxiety especially nervous tension can’t relax excessive thinking brain fog exercise intolerance i mean how many people have a resistance to exercise right they they just don’t feel like they have the energy to exercise b1 insomnia you can’t sleep a condition called pots pots is a condition where um your your ability to adapt to gravity and positional change is like completely ruined because the autonomic nervous system especially the sympathetic nervous system is dysfunctional so when you stand up the blood flow does not um keep up into the brain and you just get dizzy all the time so you basically have to lay around all day you can’t quite get up and down without feeling dizzy so these people absolutely positively should never go on a roller coaster because that would really mess them up but this is a b1 deficiency fascinating sleep apnea because the nerves that are affected in the brain stem control the respiratory centers so if those are not working because there’s not enough b1 you can have problems breathing and even just breathing in general is going to be a problem like you’re going to feel like you can’t get enough air and that’s for not just for this reason there’s a couple other ones we’ll get to panic attacks b1 deficiency nightmares at night classic b1 deficiency lack of stamina just you know especially when you’re exercising you just you just you don’t feel like you want to exercise because you just run out of gas real fast why because b1 is intimately involved in five enzymes in your mitochondria so if those enzymes aren’t working your mitochondria is tired and all the different autoimmune diseases usually have a common symptom of fatigue that’s usually the b1 so if you have hashimoto’s or ms and you’re tired take some b1 and see if you don’t just feel a lot better a buildup of lactic acid see b1 helps get rid of lactic acid which is a byproduct of something in your metabolism in the mitochondria so if you don’t have b1 you can’t clear it out so you build up lactic acid you get this condition called lactic acidosis so you see that in a restless leg syndrome you see that too in people that have problems breathing if you’re a diabetic for example and you’re taking metformin one of the side effects is lactic acidosis that’s why they actually have a black label which is a more severe label that it can cause this condition well the reason why it causes that condition is because one of the side effects of metformin is a b1 deficiency makes sense so you can’t get rid of the lactic acid so it builds up and you start becoming more acidic and then you have breathing problems recurrent ear infections