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let’s talk about the benefits of

nutritional yeast i primarily recommend

nutritional yeast mainly for a natural

source of vitamin b1 now i realize that

if you’re going to buy nutritional yeast

a lot of times they fortify it and they

fortify it with synthetic b vitamins

which are sourced from things like coal

tar

acetate ammonia hydrochloric acid

well i just want to let you know a

synthetic b1 is not the same as a

natural b1 synthetics are a lot cheaper

natural b1 is a lot more expensive

because you have to use a lot more raw

material from some natural source to get

a very tiny amount of the vitamin but

what you’re going to find out

it’s totally worth it the effects that

the b vitamins specifically b1 has on

the body are pretty dramatic especially

nowadays as it relates to this thing

called stress but there’s a couple

confusions that people have when you’re

talking about

nutritional yeast first of all they

think if you’re going to consume

nutritional yeast they’re going to get a

yeast infection that’s absolutely not

true you’re consuming deactivated yeast

but mainly the byproducts of what yeast

create they are b vitamin

machines they make b vitamins they make

amino acids

in fact nutritional yeast is a complete

protein it has all of the essential

amino acids

it has quite a few trace minerals too

like selenium for the conversion from t4

to t3 it also has zinc and copper which

is very important in your immune system

in building testosterone it has chromium

which is really good for blood sugars it

is loaded with phosphorus which makes up

something called atp adenosine

triphosphate which is the energy

currency of your body it’ll give you

more energy and nutritional yeast has

something else called beta glucan you

may have heard of that when people are

talking about oatmeal or consuming

cheerios because these grains are so

called

heart healthy because beta glucan is a

type of fiber that can help lower your

cholesterol but what about all the

carbohydrates and cereals that’s going

to raise insulin and create

other issues but beta-glucan can also

help with the immune system but out of

the b vitamins the trace minerals the

protein amino acids and the beta glucan

i usually take nutritional yeast for

vitamin b1 everything else is kind of

like a side note all right let’s just

talk about b1 for a minute b1

is the most important

water soluble vitamin vitamin d is the

most important

fat soluble vitamin and this is just

because

how intimately b1 is needed

in all of your cells in the energy

factory of your cells called the

mitochondria when you take oxygen and

you have fuel

and you add a spark plug

you get energy right so that spark plug

is thymine b1 without the spark plug

without b1

you cannot generate energy if you give

the mitochondria too much fuel as in a

high carb diet you’re going to flood the

engine much like i did with my atv

last week in fact it just wouldn’t start

and so eventually took out the spark

plug and there was just way too much gas

that was flooding the engine and i had

to completely clean all that out before

i can get the spark plug to fire

correctly so in our bodies if we have

too much glucose too many carbohydrates

the requirement for b1 goes dramatically

higher and if you’re not consuming the

b1

you’re going to be completely tired all

the time

that’s called chronic fatigue syndrome

so one of the big benefits of

nutritional yeast

is it gives you energy it’s great for

athletes to maintain endurance but

there’s some other really cool benefits

that i want to i want to mention but

first i need to explain

part of the brain called the limbic

system

has different structures in it that do

different things related to

homeostasis which is the

body’s ability to adapt to the

environment to maintain a constant state

of function internally and also you have

the autonomic nervous system that’s

working with this system so we have both

the flight or fight mechanism and we

have the rest and digest

parasympathetic nervous system so

sympathetic and parasympathetic one

system is trying to speed everything up

and adapt to stress the other system is

trying to calm things down

help you digest and help you sleep at

night and so out of all the structures

in the brain the limbic system

is the part that needs a tremendous

amount of oxygen there’s a lot of

oxidation going on in the limbic system

and so the need for b1

is really really high and so that part

of the brain is very susceptible

to a vitamin b1 deficiency and one part

of that system

called the amygdala

gives you the emotion of fear it’s a

survival mechanism and so

if you are deficient in b1

you’re going to find that you have

different

states of fear like anxiety

you feel nervous you feel a panicky

if you’re sleeping at night and you have

nightmares that means you’re deficient

in b1 what is a nightmare well those are

different pictures that give you fear in

fact they did experiments in animals

where they took the amygdala out of

these animals and they had no fear now

that’s very dangerous from a survival

mechanism because if you see

a poisonous snake and you’re not afraid

of it and it bites you you die

so we need fear to help us survive now

what about panic attacks

that is a severe b1 deficiency so taking

nutritional yeast can greatly help

anxiety and stress and make you feel

very very calm and it usually takes

within probably a few minutes after

consuming it and by the way you can get

nutritional yeast as a powder which is a

little difficult to take because you

have to kind of mix with something or

you can get it in a tablet i put some

information down below but if you get in

a tablet i highly recommend that you

chew it you don’t swallow it because a

lot of times the tablets are a little

bit big now what does it taste like well

some people like to taste some people

don’t like the taste so i would just

look at it like this even though the

taste might not be that great it’s going

to make you feel really good so the

feeling that you get from it is going to

be a huge benefit so nutritional yeast

lowers anxiety stress

panic attacks helps get rid of

nightmares and it really helps to

decrease

irritability and definitely the

sensation of feeling aggravated

if you have a low tolerance to stress so

let’s say for example you can’t tolerate

i don’t know babysitting 18 small

children

in a room for over eight hours or

you just for some reason don’t like

someone that’s driving very very slow in

front of you then you may benefit from

nutritional yeast now let’s say for

example you make a lot of coffee and you

feel this nervous jittery

kind of feeling

nutritional yeast boom it just will

handle that very quickly or let’s say

for example you go to bed at night and

you start thinking and thinking and

excessively the thoughts just keep going

and you can’t turn them off

nutritional yeast so a really good time

to take nutritional yeast is actually

right before you go to bed even though

it increases energy it won’t keep you up

at night

in fact it kind of will calm down things

so you can drift off into a night’s

sleep it definitely enhances your sleep

more than anything else also because

nutritional yeast is loaded with the

trace minerals and amino acids

it’s really good for your hair so if

you’re losing hair nutritional yeast

could help you nutritional yeast also

can help a condition called pots this is

the condition where you stand up and you

feel dizzy and you might feel like you

want to faint or pass out

that is

part of the autonomic nervous system’s

inability to adapt to

stress the stress of standing up where

all the blood flow has to go to your

brain so if you don’t have enough b1

you will develop pots

also nutritional yeast can actually give

you the b1 necessary to

overcome

climbing up a hill

without getting winded so if you’re

climbing upstairs and your legs are

heavier that would be a perfect

indication for nutritional yeast because

it’s going to support the autonomic

nervous system’s ability to cope with

physical stress all right another uh

really positive benefit is your pulse

rate your autonomic nervous system

controls a lot of things but it

definitely controls the pacemaker and

your pulse rate so if you’re deficient

in b1

you might find that your pulse rate goes

higher and higher and higher

you might find that you get palpitations

nutritional yeast can help you with that

another thing that is connected with the

b1 deficiency is your breathing let’s

say your breathing is off which it

usually is during a stress event well

nutritional yeast can help you with that

because anything that is connected to

the autonomic nervous system can be

improved with vitamin b1 now the other

interesting thing that a b1 deficiency

will manifest as is either

excessive hunger or no appetite a mild

b1 deficiency

will cause you not to be satisfied after

you eat something so you’re going to

want to keep eating something and you’re

just not going to be satisfied but a

very severe b1 deficiency can cause you

to lose your appetite so apparently the

centers in the brain

that are the sayety centers that help

satisfy you are very vulnerable to a b1

deficiency and the last symptom that

could happen with a b1 deficiency that

can be improved with nutritional yeast

is just general confusion

lack of clarity lack of

focus and that has to do with another

part of the brain which i’m not going to

get into but a b1 deficiency can keep

you in a state of confusion which things

are just not clear for you so anyway i

wanted to talk about the benefits of

nutritional yeast

now if you haven’t seen my comprehensive

video

on vitamin b1 that i did at one of the

keto summits

it’s quite interesting check it out i

put it right here

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