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hey guys I’m back and we’re going to

talk about the flight or fight mechanism

in vitamin b1 one of my favorite

vitamins let’s just start with something

called the autonomic nervous system what

is that this is the system that adapts

the body in the body’s organs to its

environment it works behind the scenes

and it’s constantly making adjustments

so if your environment is stressful or

you’re going to sleep or you’re eating

or you’re going out into the cold your

body’s going to adapt to that

environment now there’s two main

divisions of the autonomic nervous

system there’s actually a third one I’m

not gonna get into it

you have the parasympathetic which is

rest and digest and this operates in

safe mode when everything is safe you’re

calm you’re relaxed but as soon as you

go through stress it kicks over here

into this other system which is the

sympathetic nervous system completely

different kind of the opposite functions

this prepares you for stress now the

autonomic nervous system goes throughout

the entire body in different connections

to the the nerves in the back the nerves

in the lower spine and even in the

brainstem so in the brainstem you have

basic functions of survival heart rate

breathing hunger satiety flight-or-fight

which is basically running away from a

tiger or fighting the tiger okay and

then reproduction so nowadays we’re not

actually being chased by a tiger that

was long ago

however mentally we are being chased by

a tiger very similar reactions the only

problem is there’s no tiger in the room

so if you’re under stress for a long

time you start to become sympathetic

dominant and this affects your sleep the

quality of sleep you are no longer in

safe mode now one of the most common for

symptoms is anxiety nervousness can’t

relax when it gets severe you can go

into panic mode panic attacks

that is definitely sympathetic dominant

nightmares so when these symptoms become

chronic

it’s basically the failure of the

sympathetic nervous system to keep up

because normally what happens is that

you you kick in the stress mode and then

when the stress is done this system

kicks in to help you recover now what’s

interesting about this system is this is

an active system you’re something your

body that actively is trying to calm you

down like when you’re sleeping for

example or let’s say you exercise and

you get your pulse rate really high and

then you stop working out this system

kicks in there and works hard to push

down you can kind of look at it like a

like a wave a push down wave to push

down the heart right to calm the nervous

system down to help you get into deep

sleep okay but when you’re sympathetic

dominant this can’t happen anymore so

you don’t repair you can’t rejuvenate

now the autonomic nervous system needs a

lot of b1 vitamin b1 is not your regular

B vitamin it has it’s probably one of

the most important vitamins for the

nervous system not just the general

nervous system but the central nervous

system the peripheral nervous system and

definitely the autonomic nervous system

now the deficiencies of vitamin b1 are

identical to failure of the autonomic

nervous system to functions so if you

have damage to your autonomic nervous

system those symptoms are exactly the

same as being deficient in vitamin b1

and one of the reasons for that is that

your nervous system needs so much b12

actually function so check out some of

the symptoms of b1 pots what is pots

that’s a condition where you stand up

and you get really dizzy and you have to

sit down okay there’s a lot of other

symptoms connected to that but that’s

one big one depression of course you’re

talking about anxiety tension nervous

tension in your body the feeling of

stress confusion difficulty

concentrating it’s called a DD

hyperactivity you see that a lot in

children I’m disoriented you see that in

people that have Alzheimer’s or

dimension irritability you see that with

your spouse right

unusual fatigue like there should be no

reason why you’re tired yet you’re tired

all the time

fibromyalgia

these are very common symptoms of the b1

deficiency there are a lot more but

these are very common so when you’re

deficient in b1 you inhibit the body’s

ability to adapt to its an environment

so you get weird symptoms - like let’s

say for example you have cold feet in

warmer weather or you’re getting hot

feet in colder weather okay or you sweat

when it’s cold outside or you get on the

shower and you just start sweating for

no reason or you’re working out or

exercising in a hot environment and

you’re not sweating or you’re tired

after you eat I mean that’s weird

food is supposed to give you energy why

would you be tired after you consume

food or you you’re dizzy when you stand

up so these are very common symptoms so

now the question is what would cause a

b1 deficiency all right

stress is a big one chronic stress is

going to deplete vitamin B in the

nervous system and you’re gonna have

some of these symptoms right here so the

more stress that you go through the more

b1 your body requires all right number 2

refined sugars and refined carbohydrates

if you’re consuming a lot of sugar or

refined carbs you need a ton of b1 the

problem is when you refined

carbohydrates you’re consuming

carbohydrates void of b1 because when

you’re consuming like natural sugar cane

and its whole form or grains in this

whole form there’s actually a lot of b1

in there but when you refine them

there’s no b1 so when you consume these

foods you deplete your b1 reserves and

you start getting these symptoms right

here too much coffee can deplete b1 too

much tea can deplete b1 chocolate can

deplete b1 drinking wine can deplete

bottom b1 so the reason I really wanted

to do this video is to show you the huge

connection between b1 and stress and

your diet and the autonomic nervous

system so if you’re in a fly to fight

mode or have any of these symptoms

nutritional yeast is a really good

source of b1 now not against taking some

synthetic b1 if it’s short term

and if you’re also taking some natural

at the same time because anytime you

take large amounts of one vitamin it can

knock out the other other vitamins

nutritional yeast is a really good

source another good source is something

called been thought to mean been thought

to mean is a fat-soluble b1 it gets

absorbed into the brain and nervous

system by a factor of 25 times more than

the regular b1 which is water-soluble so

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