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I’m sure you heard about this

benphotamine vitamin so what’s all the

hype in do we really need it and what is

it good for benphotamine is a fat

soluble B1 normally B1 called thymine is

water-soluble and so there’s several

advantages of having this vitamin in a

fat soluble form number one it can

penetrate membranes that are made out of

fat much easier like by a factor of 360

percent more penetration so benfotamine

is really good for anything neurological

anything brain especially peripheral

neuropathy where you have the bottom of

your feet tingling numbness burning or

that could be on the hands as well so

what is it actually doing one of the big

things it’s doing it’s inhibiting the

formation of something called

ages that stands for advanced glycation

and products now what is that well

that’s basically this uh formation of

sugar with a protein or sugar with fat

that’s

um morphed into this unusable protein so

for example when you are a diabetic and

you test for blood glucose levels a lot

of times they’ll do what’s called A1C

and that test measures for this term

glycation which basically means how much

damage to your proteins in your blood is

occurring like the hemoglobin is protein

right so they can measure how much of

that protein is unusable because it’s

glycated because all the sugar interacts

with the protein and kind of fuses it to

make it unavailable and so as the red

blood cell is unavailable guess what you

get you get a lot of complications from

that one being just lowered amount of

the ability to carry oxygen and think

about the Cascade of effects that that

can create also this glycation starts to

accumulate in the mitochondria and it

plugs up the machinery for your cells so

benphotamine is a very potent

antioxidant type nutrient that inhibits

the formation of this glycation it also

supports the myelin sheath that outer

covering of the nerve that allows the

nerve to actually work and in a deeper

level we need B1 desperately for several

enzymes in our mitochondria involved in

metabolism certain enzymes are dependent

on B1 and if your cells don’t have B1

boy all sorts of issues start occurring

so a lot of the complications

especially from diabetes occur because

of this lack of this B1 because the more

glucose you have flowing through your

bloodstream the more B1 you need so by

being a diabetic you’re basically

sucking up all that residual B1 that you

had leaving you high and dry now there

are four main tissues in the body that

are affected by diabetes more than any

other tissues in the body

okay we have the nerve and the Brain

kind of the same tissue we have the

arteries

we have the I and we have the kidney

now what’s so unique about these four

tissues well number one they’re the most

metabolically demanding tissues of your

body which means they hog a lot of fuel

and they also require a lot of oxygen

and then they as a byproduct they put

out a lot of oxidation so that means

these four tissues are very susceptible

to problems with too much oxidation and

basically that means that your balance

of antioxidants versus your oxidants are

out of balance you don’t have enough

antioxidants to handle the amount of

oxidation occurring and you can kind of

think about oxidation as kind of

something rusting out in the body and so

the term for that is called oxidative

stress so these four tissues are very

susceptible

to becoming damaged with high levels of

sugar because of the oxidation and the

inability to repair and so B1 can come

in there to the rescue and lower this

oxidation because it’s kind of a very

potent antioxidant another thing that

happens in diabetes is you have damage

to the micro circulation the tiny

capillaries that feed these tissues

these capillary walls start to leak and

you get bleeding and you especially see

this in arteries you see this in the

eyes it happens in the kidney and so on

a deeper level we’re getting all this

glycated protein junk that’s

accumulating in the mitochondria

plugging everything up and literally

starving the cells of fuel and oxygen

that’s why you see peripheral neuropathy

showing up as a kind of a

one of the first things because it

affects the extremities at the farthest

distance from the heart this Advanced

glycation end product compound that’s

plugging everything up can come from

several things it comes from eating

sugar with protein when it’s cooked it

comes from eating sugar and fat when

it’s cooked that would be like ice cream

would be a perfect example it comes from

cooking in high Heats like you’re deep

frying something or you’re grilling

something where something is very crispy

you do get a certain amount of glycation

but just being a diabetic causes high

levels of glycation as you get older you

have more glycation so age is a big

factor if you smoke if you drink alcohol

and the more inflammation you have the

more glycation you’re going to have this

is why benphotamine for diabetics is so

vitally important because it basically

just starts slowing down this glycation

process and getting rid of the

complications from diabetes and of

course hopefully that person is getting

rid of the real cause of diabetes

diabetes which is the diet but sometimes

the doctors don’t really emphasize that

they’re all about managing your blood

sugars well eventually you need to fix

the cause but also benphotamine can help

you with the symptoms along the way

and also many times people combine alpha

lipoic acid with benphotamine because

they’re a bit synergistic the alpha

lipoic acid directly targets

inflammation as well as that oxidative

stress whereas benphotamine does that as

well but it also supplies you with the

necessary B1 for the enzymes in the

mitochondria as well as directly

inhibiting the formation of that

glycation now inside your arteries okay

you have this little inside layer of the

artery and it’s called the Tunica intima

which means innermost layer and in that

layer there’s a superficial layer of

cells and they’re just like one cell

thick

that are exposed to blood going through

the arteries and that’s called the

endothelial layer that layer of cells

boy that controls blood pressure it

controls all sorts of hormonal

interactions it gets hammered with this

oxidative stress and then you start

getting inflammation and you start

getting scar tissue and then you start

getting more clots one of the things

that it does is it helps to prevent

clots but if it becomes damaged you

start getting clots and there’s also

micro blood vessels that are supplying

the artery walls those are called Vasa

vasorum which means the vessels of the

vessels so the blood vessels also need

blood to survive and so all this high

level of concentrated sugar in that area

starts to create inflammation in those

vessels which are a little bit deeper

and then you start getting thickening of

the arteries and stiffness of the

arteries which is not just going to lead

to blood pressure problems but a

constriction of blood that’s flowing

through the arteries in other words

insulin is

anti-atherosclerosis in other words it

prevents this whole Cascade problem wait

a second I thought that too much insulin

is bad

well it is but you have this other

factor involved it’s called insulin

resistance so a lot of these

complications that are occurring from

high glucose and high insulin are

occurring because you actually have a

deficiency of insulin because of the

resistance because the body makes more

but it never actually gets to the right

target to allow things to occur and so

by doing things to get rid of insulin

resistance you actually get more insulin

to heal this whole area so by eating

things that increase insulin it never is

a good solution we have the arteries

that are involve we also have the

kidneys that get destroyed and so when

you have this kidney filter that gets

destroyed you start getting this

leakiness in the filter so the holes

become bigger and then protein kind of

goes out and then sugar kind of goes out

and then you can no longer recycle this

and so the kidneys start losing their

filtration now in the eyes you have this

effect especially from the retina which

is nerve tissue that’s extending from

the brain and it’s actually out in the

open and so it’s very susceptible to

this oxidation and so this is why a

diabetic could eventually lose their

eyesight to go blind but guess what

benphotamine can come in there and slow

this process down from happening and

hopefully even reverse it in certain

circumstances now when we get nerve

damage from this process it’s not just

the nerves in our feet it’s not just the

neurons in our brain which is also

considered type 3 diabetes but you also

get destruction of the autonomic nervous

system there’s something called diabetic

autonomic neuropathy it can exist in any

part of your autonomic nervous system so

in summary then photamine can greatly

help a diabetic in many different ways

it can actually help reduce this filling

up with the mitochondria with this

glycation end products it can increase

the number of mitochondria which can

increase the ATP the fuel to these

tissues but remember you also want to

get on the correct eating plan at the

same time and if you have any questions

on that you need to watch this video

right here