hey guys this is dr ahmet ergin i'm an
endocrinologist and a diabetes
educator now today we are talking about
something exciting the vitamin that
every diabetic should take
it's inexpensive it's readily available
it is called
thyamine or benfatamine now
what is it why do you need it
what is your benefit taking with
thiamine
let's get into that right now
so guys thiamine is a vitamin it's a
vitamin b1 now you're gonna be like well
i'm taking a multivitamin or
i'm eating food you know it's vitamins
are in the food those are great but
unfortunately with diabetes we
become thiamine diffusion when i say we
we consider
ourselves as a family our community but
problem is
with diabetes you excrete a lot of
thymine
in the urine so more than other people
and also
thiamine is used in the utilization of
glucose so when you eat
anything with carbohydrate or or even if
you don't eat any carbohydrate your body
makes glucose
your body has to make something called
atp that is the
energy molecule so when there's a lot of
glucose
unfortunately the mitochondria that
makes
the atp becomes overloaded from the
excessive glucose
intake now glucose rush into the cell
and
it needs to be converted to energy and
mitochondria is trying to get the job
done
but then the backup happens now the
backup
means that the substrates because
there's multiple reactions that has to
take place and i'm not going to go over
this because you're not there as you're
not trying to get a biochemistry lesson
here
i'm just trying to give you a good idea
of what's going on in your body
so due to the excessive load of glucose
it backs up and when this backup happens
the substitute
unfortunately leads to other pathways in
the body
that leads to the vascular and
endothelial damage
with is the main reason for
complications of diabetes which is like
blindness kidney disease neuropathy and
so forth
so there is an enzyme called erythrocyte
trans catholase transcethylates
unfortunately needs thiamine as a
cofactor
cofactor means that the factor that has
to be there
is that cosigning an agreement a
co-factor has to be there
for that enzyme to function thiamine is
an enzyme that's a part of one of the
main enzymes that get the job done so
when there is thymine deficiency and
high sugar foods and high carbohydrates
foods for example
alcohol things like that will definitely
reduce the thymine absorption from your
intestine
but also increase the excretion and
having
insulin resistance to be honest with you
is one of the biggest reason for
thiamine deficiency as well so even if
you eat thiamine in your food you will
be deficient and that
main enzyme unfortunately will not be
able to
get things done and in a situation where
there is an
overload then that enzyme really is out
of commission
and everything starts shifting to the
other direction which is not a good
direction
so your body tries to do that because
something has to be done about that
backed up substitutes
but then they end up damaging your cells
now
the question is why some cells are
affected in your body but not the others
for example you get neuropathy you get
nerve pain
you may go blind from diabetes you may
have a kidney failure from diabetes
but why do you not have a lung failure
or why do you
not have say for example skin
problems as much well that's because
some
cells unfortunately is not able to
go against the glucose normally when
glucose rush in
the cells decide to take the glucose in
or not
some cells do not have that liberty
and they just welcome every sugar coming
in so the kidney cells
the eye the cells in the eye and the
nerve cells unfortunately are the most
susceptible
because the glucose is coming in it's
like there are guests coming into your
house
and you do not have the decision
to take them in or not and then they
come in and you have to accommodate them
and if you do not have enough
accommodation or you run out of
resources
then there's a chaos and the chaos is
people
you know let's say you have like 20
people in your house god knows what they
are doing they may be causing all sorts
of damage to your house
same thing that happens inside the cell
too much glucose coming in
some cells doesn't know how to handle
that it backs up
all that backed up glucose shifts to
other ways
and starts damaging your body now when
you have thiamine
enough thiamine at least your body can
process that sugar and take care of it
instead of causing that backup so we
need to make sure
that you guys have enough family now
when i say thamine timing is a
water soluble vitamin so it is not as
good as
absorbed and you have to be taking this
every day and so forth
but benfotiamine is a fat soluble form
of thymine
now that's better because then you can
absorb that better
and your body actually likes it better
because think about it
your body is your cells are all formed
from cholesterol
core and basically we are a good chunk
of fat
so fat soluble vitamins like vitamin d
for example you can
go without vitamin d for a long time and
your body will still have vitamin d
because vitamin d is kind of
dispersed in your body in your fat cells
so there's like a
fat works like a storage so anything
that's fat soluble is better absorbed
from the intestine and is better stored
as well
so as a result benefit is the way to go
you know a normal person will need
anywhere from one to four milligram
of the thymine and you can look up on
the internet and they'll say oh well eat
salmon
you know eat meat dairy etc they have
a bunch of thymine well that's true but
not enough you may
have anywhere from one to two milligrams
or three milligrams at most
of thiamine in your diet but if you are
constantly deficient or you need more
and more
then you need a supplement now
interestingly of course there have been
a lot of studies in
vitro which means that you know they
have done studies in cell cultures
to see what happens to those cells in a
laboratory environment
and they have identified that most
cells when they are fortified with
thiamine or benefit
they do much better in terms of their
outcomes so
they basically simulate what's happening
in the body in the laboratory
environment and they observe what
happens to the cells
and they were able to observe even in
some rat studies
they were able to observe that the
complication risk
from high glucose goes down
anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent
now we give a lot of medications to
diabetic patients to try to reduce the
complications
but we don't talk about thiamine or
benefit as much
and what's the reason for that well the
reasons are a few fold
there are not enough human studies and
and scientifically
you know most doctors will say oh well
there's not enough double blinded
studies
major studies et cetera well there won't
be any major studies about this because
benfathamine you can buy it
from amazon you can go to the link below
and i'm going to give you the best
thiamine or benefit timing you can find
on amazon
something that's very cheap you know
like none of the pharmaceutical
companies will
invest invest millions of dollars you
know at drug development we always
complain about drug costs
but those drugs you know they spend
hundreds of millions of dollars
to produce as drug that is safe and
effective and to prove that
there's a lot of resources poured into
that now benfataming being available
in the market as over the counter nobody
is going to spend hundreds of millions
of dollars that's already readily
available over the counter so
another application for thiamine is
neuropathy you know even if you have
neuropathy even if you have
complications
taking benefit 600 milligrams
will help you dramatically with your
nerve pain as well
so it can also help prevent the
progression of complications
so even if you have an eye disease right
now or neuropathy or kidney disease
fake benefit tyamine that's going to
help you dramatically to prevent further
damage
god forbid you know ending up with
dialysis or eye injections or a bunch of
eye surgeries
and the worst case scenario is blindness
we don't want any of this on you guys so
we do our best with the pharmaceutical
medications diet and exercise
anything you can get your hands on to
improve your diabetes care
but i think benefit is a great way to
supplement that i don't recommend every
other supplement don't be a supplement
junkie and go buy 20 supplements hoping
that everything will help
you have to hear from your doctor it has
to be a reliable information
i wish you guys were going to pubmet
and e-p-u-b-med that's most of the
scientific articles are
and you will find a lot of scientific
articles about benfattamine if you want
to do your own research
as well and i will include a few links
for you
in the description below as well so guys
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