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Vitamin B1 Benefits in Heart Failure and Diabetes

Thiamine, also called as vitamin B1 is a water-soluble and heat-sensitive, for energy from carbohydrates, essential vitamins. To be found precisely in the outer layers of carbohydrate-containing cereals such as wheat and rice. When asked about the daily requirement is between healthy and sick people to be distinguished.

Because of the biochemical mechanism of action of vitamin B1 (thiamine) certain diseases seem to like Diabetes mellitus (disorder of carbohydrate metabolism), the heart disease (heart failure) to be affected as the autonomic nervous system (such as Beri-Beri, Alzheimer’s disease) in a special way.

Diabetes is apparently associated with an increased need for thiamine. So Paul Thornalley and co-workers at the University of Essex have found that previously established test methods for determination of vitamin B1 deficiency, which (on certain components of blood here: the red blood cells or red blood cell based), in 3 out of 4 examined diabetes an actual vitamin B1 deficiency did not indicate.

This is due to the fact that a vitamin deficiency may be present would not be observed in the cellular blood components, but in the plasma. Similarly, increases the need for thiamine in heart failure, due to increased excretion of vitamin B1, as a hitherto little noticed side effect of so-called loop diuretics (certain type of medicine used to washing out of water). The demand is dependent on medication and stage of disease.

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