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hi guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about the absolute most important vitamin  

involved in diabetes that would be vitamin b1  okay vitamin b1 does a lot of things but related  

to diabetes it is involved in keeping the lining  of the blood vessels nice and strong without b1  

you have a problem with the vascular system  the blood vessels okay now realize that the  

blood vessels support the nervous system your  nerves need blood flow there are tiny nerves  

in the cornea of your eye the retinal nerve  that goes in the back of the eye that goes  

to the brain that’s nerve both of those nerves  are supplied by blood vessels when you consume  

a lot of sugar or you’re diabetic and you have  high sugar you get a severe b1 deficiency 75%  

of diabetics type 1 and 2 are deficient in  B vitamins okay primarily the b1 but other  

B vitamins as well so when you don’t get blood  supply to the nerve it decreases the oxygen to  

the nervous system and then you start getting  all sorts of problems with that so vitamin b1  

deficiencies affect the nervous system and  the heart first especially the nerves that  

connect to the heart it affects also affects  the mammillary bodies in the brain they’re  

these little structure in the brain called the  mammillary bodies that are like really switches  

to your memory system so that’s why when your  vitamin b1 deficient your memories start going  

as well vitamin b1 is also involved in making  myelin which is the insulation around the nerve  

so when you’re deficient in b12 lose the myelin  sheath you can’t grow that anymore and that’s  

where you start getting pain in the feet in  the hand first because those are the distal  

or the furthest nerves from the heart okay that’s  where it shows up first because it’s a nutritional  

deficiency so vitamin b1 counters damage to the  vascular walls that support the nervous system  

it also prevents necrosis that’s like dead  and dying tissue so you know with diabetics  

you lose it your toes right well b1 will prevent  that number three b1 improves the neurovascular  

system that’s the connection between the nerves  and the vascular system together b1 increases  

the survival of heart cells as well because it  affects the nervous system in the heart number  

five b1 prevents cardiac fibrosis that’s like scar  tissue filling up the heart b1 prevents diabetic  

retinopathy that’s damage to the retina of the  eye it also prevents neuropathy which is damage  

to the nervous system now you would think this  to be in the front of every newspaper in United  

States but it’s buried you have to dig it out I’m  going to put a link down below you have to read  

this this research study on this vitamin because  it’s incredible every diabetic should be taking  

this so just make sure when you get b1 give it in  600 milligrams and make sure it’s a fat soluble  

form not the typical thiamine in the water soluble  form thanks for watching hey you probably already  

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