Your friend calls you sounding weak and confused. Out of concern, you stop over to find she barely recognizes you. You take her to the hospital, where doctors proceed to run tests and realize — as EMS ...

People maligning a modern diet tend to poke fingers at the the last 30 - 40 years. During this time obesity became a majority issue in the United States, and diabetes and metabolic syndrome afflicted ...

The B vitamin complex includes eight vitamins. Vitamin B1, or thiamin, is an important one among them. Thiamin is a water-soluble vitamin and has important roles in metabolism. What is the function of ...

Benfotiamine is a synthetic form of vitamin B1. The human body readily converts benfotiamine into thiamine, which is essential for brain function and needed to meet energy demands. Benfotiamine ...

One of the more dangerous deficiencies to our brains (and one found not uncommonly in alcoholics) is thiamine deficiency, also known as Wernike's Encephalopathy (and if you are very unlucky, Korsakoff ...

Vitamin B1, or thiamine, supports normal cell function and helps your body convert food into energy. Thiamine overdose symptoms are unlikely to occur because this vitamin will be excreted in urine ...

Vitamin B1 deficiency may play a role in the development of alcohol-related dementia (ARD), new research suggests. Investigators at the University of Vienna in Austria explored the hypothesis that the ...

Jenna Jameson has revealed that a vitamin deficiency could possibly be the cause of her long-running mystery illness as her recovery continues. The former adult film star, 47, had been misdiagnosed ...

The biologists working in a fish hatchery near Shasta Dam grew increasingly concerned last year when newly hatched salmon fry began to act strangely — swimming around and around, in tight, ...

The prevalence of thiamine deficiency in fish, often triggered by the presence of thiaminase enzymes in their diet, represents a significant challenge for aquatic ecosystems and commercial fisheries.