BODY HEALTH
Vitamin B1
Deficiency
Can Cause Permanent Brain Damage
and Coma but is Rarely Diagnosed
By PF Louis
(NaturalNews) Thiamine, or vitamin B1, is one of eight distinct
members of the B complex, which helps maintain or improve
brain and nervous system functioning and liver health, and
resist the effects of stress on the immune system. Thiamine was
named B1 simply because it was the first of the B complex series
discovered.
You need it to form adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which every
cell of the body uses for metabolic energy. One of the signs of
B1 deficiency is fatigue, but that symptom covers many other
deficiencies as well. There are other more distinct attributes of
vitamin B1 deficiency that have been isolated.
B complex vitamins are water soluble and cannot be stored in
the body, except for one form of thiamine that is fat soluble
known as benfotiamine. Its application will b H\