Vitamin “B1”, which is also known as thiamine. This “B1” water-soluble vitamin is an important one and is part of a very large family of other B-complex vitamins whose main role in the body is to convert blood sugars into glucose for energy.
Thiamine is found in a wide variety of foods. The best sources of thiamine are pork and whole grains or enriched grain products. But thiamine can also be found in organ meats, red meats, yeast, nuts, sunflower seeds, peas, milk, cauliflower, spinach and legumes. Some foods rich in vitamin B1 are that of beef, liver, beans, nuts and rice.
The role of vitamin “B1” otherwise known as thiamine is to metabolise food for energy, maintain proper heart, nerve and brain function and to generally keep the body working properly. Thiamine is a water-soluble vitamin and is used in nearly every cell in the body.
Thiamine is found in both plants and animals and plays a crucial role in certain metabolic reactions. Your body needs it to form adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which every cell of the body uses for energy.
Thiamine also plays a role in muscle contraction and conduction of nerve signals. Thiamine is essential for the metabolism of pyruvate.
When the body is deficient in thiamine it develops a disease called Beriberi, which is also simply known as thiamine deficiency. There are two types of the disease: wet beriberi and dry beriberi. Wet beriberi affects the heart and circulatory system. In extreme cases, wet beriberi can cause heart failure.
Now just as you can have a thiamine deficiency you can also have it in excess and some symptoms of this with lesser side effects are: Nausea, tight feeling in your throat, sweating, feeling warm, mild rash or itching, feeling restless and tenderness or a hard lump where a thiamine injection was given.
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