Lately I’ve been doing some self experimenting with supplementing thiamine. I’m just looking to improve energy levels and skin issues. Come to find out that Thiamine or B1 is one of the most overlooked supplement that could improve a wide variety of health issues.
Whats really interesting to me is the relationship of thiamine to magnesium. Coming from learning a lot about D3 mega-doses and how essential magnesium is in that. In a nutshell D3 will use up your magnesium, and people can mistake D3 toxicity with a D3 caused magnesium deficiency.
Likewise, thiamine will also use up your magnesium stores, as it needs magnesium for conversion. Thiamine is needed for your body to hold on to magnesium. and vice versa. Sugar depletes your body of thiamine. and even eating lots of fat can tank your stores as well. it’s kinda confusing.
My experience in taking 5, 10, 15, 20 pills a day of thiamine HCL (100mg). On the night of the 20, I woke up every hour or two, with a slightly racing heart-rate, an obvious sign of low magnesium. I took 2 magnesium bisglycinate every time I woke up. Now I’m just take a reduced dose of B1… 5 HCL, or 1 Benfotaimine pill which has a much better absorption rate.
I’m also taking lots of biotin and b-2 along with a couple b-100 complex. Hoping this helps with eczema. I’ll report back with my findings.
My purpose here is not to educate, just to share my experience, peak your interest, and point to what I believe to be the best sources of information.
After learning about this. I believe the best thing a person can do for their health is check D3 status, and then the B’s. Thiamine being the most overlooked one.
The best supps in order of improvement that could be gained in health for the average person:
D3, Magnesium, K2, B-1, B-complex.
Along with a staple food that has everything you need… beef, eggs, milk, chlorella, etc.
I got most of my info from EONutrition (Oxalate & B-1 expert) on youtube, Dr. Stasha Gominak (D3 & B’s for Sleep expert), you can learn from them.