Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

One of the nutrients that is the most depleted from consuming carbohydrates,

can anyone take a wild gas?

Vitamin B1. So I want to spend a little time because this one's really important.

Vitamin B1, thiamine, it's called berry berry. A lot of people have almost like a subclinical

deficiency in their body. It's called the great mimica because it mimics so many other diseases.

You're going to see that it has extensive mimicking ability for all these problems.

What does B1 do? Well, basically it makes myelin, the protective sheet around your nervous system.

That what happens when you're a diabetic? You basically, you lose the myelin because the

high sugar oxidizes the fat layer around the cell. It's called lipid oxidation. And by the way,

B1 protects the myelin from being damaged. And that's why if you have peripheral neuropathy,

you can take B1 and actually improve those symptoms pretty quick.

They made a fat-syable B vitamins called benfotamine, which is even a better remedy because it

penetrates the fat cells a lot more than actually just the regular thiamine. So benfotamine can

penetrate the brain by 25 times more than regular B1. So it's really good for neurological conditions,

brain problems, nerve problems, peripheral neuropathy, and your fingertips in the toes.

So that's one thing. B1 protects the cell, especially the mitochondria, against the

damage from high sugar. If you take two diabetics, the high sugar, and you have one of them

that's deficient of B1, the other one's not. The one that's deficient of B1 will experience the

complications a lot more than the person has B1. So B1 suppresses the complications from high sugar.

So it protects the mitochondria. Why? Because B1 is a co-factor for at least five key enzymes in

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