Essential Vitamins & Minerals Vitamin B1 06 of 33

Vitamin B1

AKA: Thiamine

RDA: Men, 1.5 mg

Women, 1.1 mg

Thiamine is sometimes called the fuel vitamin because it is needed to metabolize carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and it helps convert excess glucose into stored fat. Vitamin B1 also ensures proper nerve impulse transmission and contributes to maintaining normal appetite, muscle tone, and mental health. In the 1930s thiamine was discovered to be the cure for the crippling and fatal disease beriberi. Now that flour, rice, and bread are generally enriched with thiamine, beriberi is generally rare.

A diet that regularly includes lean pork, milk, whole grains, peas, beans, peanuts, or soybeans generally provides enough thiamine. Athletes, laborers, pregnant women, and other humans who burn great amounts of energy may require more than the adult RDA of thiamine. Mild deficiency may cause fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, moodiness, confusion, anemia, and possibly heart arrhythmia's. Alcohol suppresses thiamine absorption; for this reason and because of typically poor diets, alcoholics are likely to be deficient in thiamine and other nutrients. To increase thiamine levels, try changing your diet or taking a multi vitamin instead of thiamine supplements. Large doses up to 100 mg of thiamine may alleviate itching from insect bites; otherwise, mega supplements are not known to be harmful or helpful.

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