warning do not try this at home I'm talking about the experiment between sugar and what sugar does to vitamin B1 and the average person in the US is definitely doing this experiment unknowingly and so today we're going to talk about what this experiment is in relationship to what high levels of carbohydrates do to certain nutrients specifically vitamin B1 and all the consequences that occur from that and of course the sugar I'm talking about at the top of the list is the refined sugars but not only that there's hidden sugars like starches a starch is really
sugar if you're consuming the starch that is in most Foods in the US so it's a combination of those starches and sugars that will deplete your B1 and create all sorts of symptoms that you might think are connected to something else but they're merely a vitamin B1 deficiency but let me just touch on my personal story with sugar and B1 growing up I lived on a lot of sugar but further along my 20s I met my future wife 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 and he said this before I throw these out do you want to sample any of these desserts I was raised you never want a waste food so of course we sampled every single dessert now as I drove home that night I had this thought I I think I ate too much sugar I put my head on the pillow and what do I hear pounding in my inner ear just my heart is just pounding like crazy but you would think I would learn from that
situation no I continue to consume pasta breads cereals crackers for several years later and then of course I had a sleeping problem at that point so what did I do I created a sugar coma to sleep every night I had a pint of Ben and& Jerry's every night before I went to sleep now that worked to at least get me to sleep but I woke up completely with fluid retention which by the way is a B1 deficiency but what happens when you eat that much sugar without the B1 one you get too much lactic acid
and that developed something called Restless like syndrome as time went on my health started going down down down down down to the point where I had pre-diabetes the inside of my eyelids were completely like sandpaper bloodshot I didn't know what that was obviously I finally figured things out and here I am today and I don't have a B1 deficiency anymore but at that time I was in an experiment just like I think a lot of people are in the same experiment right now an average person's diet is well over 50 to 60 to even 70%
refined carbohydrates but I want to kind of hone in on this B1 B1 is a fascinating vitamin and a lot of the complications that occur from all sorts of diseases especially type 1 and type two diabetes is a lot with just the B1 deficiency B1 has everything to do with supporting a healthy nervous system also everything to support the fuel to be turned into energy but I want to kind of hone in on this B1 deficiency so one of the first symptoms is nervous tension irritability restlessness brain fog and also something called air hunger where
it affects your breathing you're going to start getting numbness on the bottom of your feet or the fingertips you might have Tremors with the hands you might be very confused also your pulse rate might be low but then when you actually do just a little bit of something it goes way too high personality changes they have very low tolerance to stress you see the a lot with alcoholics well that's because the alcohol really depletes B1 probably more than sugar does loss of manual dexterity the coordination is off headaches insomnia constipation other than that you're going
to be perfectly fine nothing to worry about some people will say well when I eat my junk food it's enriched with B vitamins let's just talk about natural versus synthetic B1 unfortunately the top onead days are synthetically made and the name for the synthetic version would be thyine mono nitrate extremely cheap you can buy a kilogram of this stuff for roughly 30 bucks so when you see a bottle of 100 pills and each one has a 100 Mig of B1 and it only costs $5.50 you have to realize you're still making a massive profit the
bottle is more expensive than the material whereas natural B1 is more expensive because you have to use natural sources one natural version that I like is called alamine it's very different than the synthetic version it's actually a fat soluble and so it can penetrate a lot of different tissues whereas the water soluble one is not able to penetrate through some of these fat soluble membranes the synthetic version is dependent on something called active transport when it gets absorbed which means there's a certain protein that allows it to go into the body number one it gets
saturated pretty quick so only certain amount goes into your body also if you have gut problems because I'm talking about the absorption in the small intestine anything going on with the GI system or inflammation you're going to have a hard time absorbing the synthetic version of B1 whereas the natural B1 doesn't need active transport it can go right in so you can get a lot of it with just small doses one thing I like about the natural version it can penetrate the blood brain barrier when you're taking the synthetic version and you're also consuming carbs
alcohol chances are you're not going to get very much absorption when I talked about B1 helping you make energy it's this natural version of B1 that really can help the mitochondria produce more energy another question that people want to know is what about Benoy benot toine is good for something called Advanced glycation and products now what does that mean well that's a situation when you're consuming sugar and carbohydrates at the same time and with this sugar connects to the protein and makes the protein unavailable so it it basically makes a lot of sticky proteins that
clog everything up in your body so if you're a diabetic go with the benine the other thing you should really know is in order for B1 to work you need to have co-enzymes and the big one is magnesium like I said before when you consume too much carbohydrate and you don't then compensate by taking more B vitamins that fuel is not going to be utilized of course over time all that sugar without the B1 damages the machine now you're going to have a hard time using energy and this is what's behind Alzheimer's because the neur
can no longer get energy from glucose and many other tissues and this is why the ketogenic diet is so important because it bypasses all that and it gives the body a different type of fuel from fat not sugar and it's in a form of kind of a packaged fat that we can absorb called ketones now we can start supporting these cells but you better also increase the B1 that's deficient or else you might still have issues let's talk about the foods that have the most B1 it's not really vegetables vegetables have some but they have
anti B1 nutrients like oxalates right that's an anti B1 pork believe it or not has the most ban and then beef wheat germ whole grains but I don't recommend that because that's going to give you the gluten and the other issues with the carbs organ meats eggs fish nuts things like that but fat and dairy don't have a lot of B1 nutritional yeast that's unfortified has a good amount of B1 so like I said before warning do not try this experiment at home if you are on a high carbohydrate diet go on a low carbohydrate
diet also make sure you don't become vitamin B1 deficient
