Vitamin B1 is a water-soluble vitamin needed to process carbohydrates, fat, and protein. Every cell of the body requires vitamin B1 to form ATP. Nerve cells require vitamin B1 in order to function normally.
1.5 mg
Severe deficiency can cause beriberi, a disease that damages heart and nervous tissue. Deficiency is rare, although more frequent in alcoholics. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a Vitamin B1 deficiency disease, usually caused by alcoholic malnutrition.
Vitamin B1 is non-toxic in high amounts.
Nutritionists suggest that vitamin B1 be taken as part of a B-Complex vitamin or other multivitamin supplement, since Vitamins B1, B2 and B3 work together.
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Wheat germ, whole wheat, peas, beans, enriched flour, fish, peanuts, and meat.
Vitamin B1 might be taken for canker sores, for diabetes, fibromyalgia, injuries and multiple sclerosis
Vitamin B1 may increase the effectiveness of tricyclic antidepressants. Women taking estrogen replacement and oral contraceptives and people taking a classification of drugs called "loop diuretics" should take a Vitamin B-Complex supplement.
Regular Vitamin B1 supplementation may make you undesirable to mosquitos.
Winston AP, Jamieson CP, Madira W, Gatward NM, Palmer RL.
Prevalence of thiamin deficiency in anorexia nervosa.
Int J Eat Disord. 2000 Dec;28(4):451-4.
Discussion: Thiamin deficiency may account for some of the neuropsychiatric symptoms of anorexia nervosa and routine screening or supplementation may be indicated