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hey guys so recently I had a question

about sleep apnea what causes it and

what can you do about it so this is the

condition which really affects someone’s

sleep you see this a lot in diabetics is

there a connection yes there is so when

you have high glucose okay

high blood sugar it depletes vitamin b1

Kevin thiamine because vitamin b1 is

essential and maintaining normal

function of your brainstem especially

the breathing centers which connect to a

nerve called the phrenic nerve which

comes down from the brainstem and goes

right to the diaphragm so the entire

diaphragm the motor control the function

of the movement of the diaphragm is

controlled by this one nerve so if that

nervous cut you’re not going to be able

to breathe so what happens this part of

the nervous system is under what’s

called autonomic nervous system function

now the autonomic nervous system works

on automatic but you can also influence

it too so right now I can stop reading

if I want and then if I forget to

breathe that autonomic nervous system

will kick in there and breathe for me

when I’m sleeping

that system actually breathes for me so

I don’t have to think about it so here’s

a thing so when your spouse is let’s say

snoring I’ll sudden you hear them stop

breathing for a period of time dot sleep

apnea

that’s definitely involving these

breathing centers right here so it’s

really the the high-sugar okay which

depletes a vitamin b1 which then you

lose the function of the breathing

centers

I’m if you take a look at other symptoms

of low vitamin b1 you have lactic

acidosis that basically the situation

where your pH becomes slightly more

acidic and you’ll have problems

breathing just from that alone or

there’s another condition called dyspnea

which is basically difficulty breathing

it’s related to something called berry

berry what is that that’s a vitamin b1

deficiency

but people could have a moderate or a

subclinical deficiency that might not

show up on blood tests but it’s just

gradually going into a major deficiency

also there’s another condition called

SIDS sudden infant death syndrome okay

where this infant just stops breathing

for no reason well that also is related

to a severe b1 deficiency in an infant

which basically affects the breathing

centers again a lot of information you

can find when you study beriberi or look

at the relationship between vitamin b1

deficiency and SIDS you’ll find a lot of

interesting research so that’s why it’s

very important to make sure that the

infant is breastfed or if you’re getting

a formula that it has enough b1 and

other nutrients because some of these

formulas are just pure sugar avoid of a

lot of good nutrition anyway I just

wanted to point out that if you have

sleep apnea you may want to start taking

vitamin b1 and in addition to that take

nutritional yeast because that will also

support and prevent any other

deficiencies from higher levels of Adam

b1 alright thanks for watching

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