Benfotiamine (Fat-Soluble B1): Benefits and Why It’s So Unique
What is benfotiamine, and do we really need it? Learn more.
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0:00 Introduction: Benfotiamine explained
0:10 What is benfotiamine?
0:40 What does benfotiamine do?
2:30 Benfotiamine for diabetes
9:54 Learn more about the best diet for diabetes!
Let’s talk about benfotiamine. Benfotiamine is a fat-soluble form of vitamin B1. Vitamin B1 (thiamine) is normally water-soluble, but a fat-soluble version has several advantages.
Fat-soluble vitamin B1 can penetrate membranes made out of fat much easier. This is one reason why benfotiamine is so good for neurological issues.
Benfotiamine helps inhibit the formation of AGEs (advanced glycation end products). AGEs can lead to a myriad of issues, but benfotiamine is a potent antioxidant-type nutrient that inhibits the formation of glycation.
Benfotiamine also supports the myelin sheath and is needed for several enzymes in the mitochondria. If your cells don’t have B1, all kinds of issues can occur. Many of the complications of diabetes occur because of a lack of vitamin B1.
Benfotiamine is especially important for people with diabetes. It targets inflammation and oxidative stress and supplies the B1 you need for your enzymes and mitochondria, all while inhibiting the formation of glycation. It also helps increase the number of mitochondria you have, which increases ATP (the fuel for your tissues).
However, it’s also important to get on the right diet plan. Check out my other videos to learn more about the best diet for diabetes and other health concerns.
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Thanks for watching! I hope this helps you better understand benfotiamine and why it’s so important. I’ll see you in the next video.
You have changed my lifestyle in a positive manner..Thanks so much Doctor.
Glad to hear that. Keep up the good work!
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Best advice is don’t take it if you’re not getting any of the symptoms. If symptoms don’t improve, stop taking it.
This is an antioxidant that comes with its drawbacks, specifically that oxidative stress is a requirement for building muscle, and oxidation is a requirement for muscle healing and energy recovery.
There is a reason why people who take powerful antioxidants such as “resveratrol” report a significant decrease in performance and recovery.
Even with supplements such as Vitamin C that showed a decrease in performance, recovery, and muscle gained in those taking Vit C vs. those that aren’t.
Unless you have an imbalance or deficiancy, then dont take it.
@Skelathnah, vitamin B1 isnt antioxidant. It is only vitamin C and E that is antioxidant among the vitamins, not including the minerals and other phytonutrients.
My question is that beef liver having the B vitamins..I can take the liver pills equivalent needed? I eat beef liver but never daily or weekly so I take the desiccated pills of organ & liver included
@Autumn Feldpauschwhat brand of supplement for the liver do you use? Thanks!!
You have saved my life Dr Berg. I was suffering from dysautonomia since march after getting sick with a viral infection. I started having strange symptoms like heart palpitations, POTs, cold feet and hot forehead without fever, cold intolerance, dizziness and anxiety which was turning into panic attacks. I did my own research and found that my symptoms are matching a lot with thiamine deficiency. I started thiamine 500mg along with a b-complex, magnesium and a good quality probiotic and I’m feeling much better. I cannot thank you enough for your life changing content but still a big thanks from my side. 🙂
Wow. Glad it helped you. Thanks for sharing your experience here. Wishing you good health!
I am glad you’re feeling better. My husband is feeling the same since he got sick with Covid-19 last year. Are taking benfotiamine 500mg or thiamine 500mg?
@Dr. Eric Berg DC does your store sell Benfotamine? I have neuropathy in my feet due to long term covid. Thank you!
Bro can we talk? I’m having the same symptoms. I need help
I have the same symptoms. Definitely not thiamine deficiency in my case, but I’m glad those supplements helped you.
I was wondering if compression socks actually help? I have been doing the keto diet for the last 2 1/2 months and I’ve lost 41.4 pounds, I’ve learned a lot from your videos. Thank you 😊
i have problem pain on my left knee and wearing a compression sock on it helps me go to work and stand for hours
Yes, I’ve found they do
Well done on the weight loss. 👍
@Spam Mouse Thank you
@Jo’sma Thank you
Thank you so much for all information you are giving us!🙏🏻I have taken benfotiamine a couple of months now with different vitamines also Ashwaganda. It has helped me a lot in many ways. I’am grateful for your time, the knowledge, advice and these video clips for us to learn and understanding better of our body!😍❤️🙏🏻👌🏻
Very glad to be of help.
@Dr. Eric Berg DC It means a lot to know how the body works and affects you in different ways. Above all, to understand why and get it confirmed to be able to get better through different ways through diet, vitamins and the mindset. I have been told that there is nothing to be done and I have to live with numerous problems and pains. But I have never given up and searched for a long time that there must be something to learn a better understanding of how everything is. With your help as you do, I have listened many times, summarized and tried different ways. The improvements with benfotiamine have resulted in a short time. For which I thank you very much! Bless you!🙏🏻🙏🏻
Only if so many people would really know and understand this or unless they are too stubborn to! Thank you, Dr. Berg for your great knowledge and hard work that you put into wanting to get people healthy!!!!
Happy you found it useful! Be well!
Another great video. I just started on bentofamine. Didn’t realize it was fat soluble. Working on targeted exercises to get rid of the invisible organ fat.
Happy you found it useful! Be well!
Type 1 diabetes is the worse disease to have. The damage it can cause is bad and very scary. Ive been type 1 for over 40 years and im trying my best to not have bad complications. Dr Berg has helped me with all his great information. My concern is though is can we take too many supplements and can they damage the liver. I take several a day so please dr berg can you make video about taking too many supplements. Thanks
YES, PLEASE.
Majority of supplements I can’t take, because they end up bogging up my (right) kidney/liver — to where I get immense edema (only really in my ankles; though, I do get a bit puffy in my hands and under my eyes, also).
I just had to stop taking a B12 supplement, even though I am severely deficient due to having most of my stomach removed — because it started causing edema.
Hell, I just bought Dr. Berg’s brand of liquor Vit. D and had to stop taking it, because of the edema.
Also, after a time, I start to develop pain in my right side — sometimes from my liver, sometimes from my kidneys.
Which, then causes the tinnitus to get worse, in my right ear (as I lost some hearing due to kidney damage/oxycodone Rx).
I do my best to eat beef everyday, to help — as a beef/some dairy/some fruit/coconut water based diet is what I feel best on.
It seems that even though I was told it is necessary to supplement, after having bariatric surgery, due to all the health issues I have had, as result of other medical interventions due to surgical and post-surgical complications — diet is the only real successful way I can get the nutrients I require.
I definitely understand your struggle, for sure — and I can imagine it’s much more difficult, because of the type 1 diabetes.
My prayers are with you.
@Christiana NicoleYou can get b12 sublingual to avoid the digestive problems.
I have the same question. I’m a supplement junkie, so I’ve always worried about this.
@DaveT I wonder if sublingual b12 can help avoid getting the acne that b12 often causes.
Had been getting worsening odd seemingly unrelated symptoms (panic attacks, jumpy heart, shaking, insomnia, inability to exercise, iBS) and saw one on your videos on B1 deficiency
I stated taking benfotiamine and thiamine and it made me myself again (almost)
Thank you! Without you, I’d have gone through exams and testing with several specialists, been put on horrible medications and never recovered my health
All those symptoms you listed can also disappear by eliminating wheat from your diet. I had the exact same and once I totally got rid of wheat and all other grains, the symptoms stopped dramatically. Diet really is everything.
@Zee Jones I don’t eat wheat , on keto but yes,
Did you go through stress depleting magnesium?
I’ve been taking Benfotiamine for the past 2 weeks after seeing one of your videos. The nerve pain I had in my feet and legs are gone. Thank you for teaching me how to heal my body Dr. Berg.
How much dose?
Glad to help!
@Dr. Eric Berg DC Hi Dr Berg, there is a lot of talk about sugar eating away at your arteries… in my past I ate more sugar than you can imagine… for the past 2 years I have stopped completely and eat keto… I would like to know what to eat to directly target the recovery of my arteries… thank you.
What dosage do you take if I may ask?
@Jeffrey Dye 300mg 1x per day.
Superb video!
My daily dose of knowledge 😃👍
Trauma/chronic stress/chronic sympathetic driven state has caused my severe gut problems. Leaky gut, inability to absorb nutrients and severe insulin resistance. This cumulatively has caused debilitating symptoms.
I believe the benfotiamine, along with fasting, and a strict keto diet is greatly helping me regain my health.
Stay the course!
Thanks to you and your health family for all you do!
Peace love and blessings!
Dr Berg, All your videos on Benfotiamine has immensely helped me. Even at A1C 6.2, I started getting burning sensation in my palms and my eyesight got slightly blurry. All that reversed after I started taking Benfotiamine. My sleep pattern also improved a lot. I take this Vit. after dinner and I get very good sleep now. My doctor wasn’t even aware of this vitamin and when I told him about my experience he said he will research on this and asked how to spell Benfotiamine?
😂I’ve heard that the general schooling of becoming a Dr. Only requires them to do 5 hours of nutrition…which is sad and would explain how your doctor wouldn’t know about it…NUTRITION IS EVERYTHING!!!
Thank you, Dr Berg!
I’ve been taking B1 Benfortomine, for two months.
My A1c went from 13 to 5.8.
May God Bless you❤
Also, keeping carbs under 50.
What dosage of B1 are you taking?
Glad to help!
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@ETJaya Benfotiamine 250mg Thiamine ( vitamin B1 ) 10mg. It says that you can take four times a day, but I take two.
Fat & water soluble B1
The world will be totally different without this man. Dr.Berg you are getting almost 11 million blessing every single day. Remember 11 million hands are praying for you always. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
❤ from INDIA.
Very glad to be of help.
@Dr. Eric Berg DChey Dr. I noticed the images of the types of foods you shouldn’t consume in order to avoid insulin resistance is milk one of them as well ? I drink organic grass fed milk
@Dr. Eric Berg DCplease launch your products in India
Every day I have learnt a new lesson from you, it’s changing my health getting healthier .Thankful for your advice dr Berg ❤
Glad to hear that! You’re very welcome!
I started taking Benfotiamine from a previous Dr Berg video to help with frequent nighttime urinating, it worked so well but it also cleared up the pain in my feet after a long shift at work. So grateful 😇
Happy you found it useful! Be well!
I had very bad peripheral neuropathy (following blood cancer treatment) and pain in my legs. After a few weeks of Benfotiamine, the pain is gone! I am so happy i found out about this amazing compound, changed my life, i couldn’t walk, run or cycle without pain before, now I am fine 😊
I listened to a different video from Dr. Berg and he mentioned cracked heels would respond to benfotiamine. I bought some immediately (I already take alpha lipoic acid) and long story short, in about a month there was a significant improvement. About 4 months now and the cracks are almost gone. Previously I had to keep after them (carefully) with a file because they were so rough but when I say carefully I mean it. If I filed too much and went to deep near a crack it could hurt for days. I am really grateful for this information. My summer feet are finally sandal worthy. As a bonus I think it’s helping me fall asleep faster.
Please create a video about the pros and cons of 24 hours fasting once a week vs 8/16 fasting every day. I can do both and would like to understand the health impacts of both methods. Thank you!
Great videos on B1. You really really must add a bit on paradoxical reaction though! Everyone starting b1 needs to know about this.