Benfotiamine Helps with Nerves, Eyes, Kidney, & Heart Tissue, and Can Penetrate 3-5x Deeper into the Tissues

too many refined carbohydrates, like pastas and refined flour deplete B1, also taking alcohol, dextrose [which is in a lot of products], chemotherapy, HIV, kidney disease, refined carbohydrates, fructose [as in high fructose corn syrup], Dr. Berg

 

Bill Sardi explained years ago that Benfotiamine is the anti-Alzheimer's nutritional compound. And as good as Benfotiamine is it requires sufficient magnesium in your blood to do its job.  Ann Louise Gittelman reminds us that Benfotiamine works, in part, 

by helping to dissolve amyloid-beta build up in the brain. 

So if you're concerned about amyloid-beta build-up in the brain that can lead to all sorts of age-related cognitive disabilities, like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Mad-Cow Disease, or any other caused by amyloid plaque, you should be taking Benfotiamine on a regular basis. Bill Sardi says that it is THE nutritional compound to prevent macular degeneration.  So there's that.  

Interesting is his point that the human body is designed to rely on thiamine/vitamin B1, writing, 

it has also been documented that as a total oxygen-less state develops in tissues (ischemia/hypoxia), molecular transporters of thiamine are increased on hemoglobin, evidence the body is designed and relies upon thiamine naturally for dynamic defense against oxygen-deprivation.  Like I said, interesting.  When was the last time that your doctor pointed this out to you? 

At the end of this video, he says that what you want is an unfortified nutritional yeast to correct a B1 deficiency.  See above. 

1. Raynaud’s Syndrome

2. Morning Sickness & Hypersensitivity to Odors

3. Increased heart rate.  A lot of folks who got the vaccine have been experiencing this.  One woman on Twitter said that she woke up every morning with a racing heart, an experience that lasted for 3 months.  Benfotiamine would have helped with that. 

4. Edema.  Most of us associate this with excessive sodium intake, but it could be a Benfotiamine deficiency.  Interesting distinction here: wet beriberi is a cardiovascular problem, while dry beriberi is a nervous system problem.  

5. Psychosis.  Yep.  This could be brought on by sleep deprivation, excessive coffee consumption, or working in an environment where there is no one you can trust.  Peter Breggin made that latter point. 

6. Shortness of breath.  Air hunger, especially at night, is a B1 deficiency.  

7. Dizzy when going from a sitting to a standing position.  I endured this periodically over several years.  Even as a kid, if I were playing outside in the yard and twisted my body or jerked my head too fast, I’d see stars.  That sounds like a B1 deficiency.  B1 deficiency is failure to adapt to stress, gravity, you name it.  

Be sure to take a look at another video by Dr. Berg, titled, "12 Ways You Can Get Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) Deficiency," Dr. Eric Berg, May 7, 2019. 

What I find fascinating about B1 deficiency is that it manifests itself in a variety of ways.  I liked what he said about diuretics that will deplete vitamin B1 plus all of the water-soluble vitamins, like vitamin C and potassium.  Not good.  Coffee drinkers be forewarned.  One of the side effects of taking metformin is lactic acidosis., which also is a function of a B1 deficiency.  You can get rid of lactic acidosis in 24 hours just by taking Thiamine.  Hello.  

There's a condition that involves a B1 deficiency that targets the mammillary bodies in the brain, where the mammillary bodies start shrinking and there's a connection between that brain structure and producing new memories.  Taking an unfortified nutritional yeast is a good source, and what you'll notice is that your stress goes down and your energy comes up.  

"Subclinical Vitamin B1 Deficiency: Causes and Symptoms," Dr. Eric Berg, November 26, 2017.  In this video, he reminds us that too many refined carbohydrates, like pastas and refined flour, now get this, deplete B1.  This video has a good title, too, "Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) Deficiency: The Great Imitator of Other Illnesses," Dr. Eric Berg, October 14, 2018.  

"[These two women] have more cajones than most men in America"

I want to start with this quote first: 

One speaker during Tuesday's board meeting, Nicole Monteilh Brown of Costa Mesa, said, "You have seen how the people have been forced to exercise their First Amendment.  Be wise and do not force the residents of this county into feeling they have no other choice but to exercise their Second Amendment. [see her speak these remarks at the :57 to 1:13 segment in the first video on this page]

Nicole Monteilh Brown [check out her very informative site] invoked the 2nd Amendment and her friend, attorney Leigh Dundas [see her videos below] listed Dr. Quick's home address & her boyfriend's name, and then a bunch of them went directly to her house after the meeting. They have more cajones than most men in America, and these 2 women deserve the real credit for getting the OC mask order repealed. 

Reference to the 2nd Amendment did not go unnoticed.  "The comment concerned county officials as the reference to the Second Amendment right to bear arms was viewed as a threat."  Oh, I see, so the law of the land is viewed as a threat to corrupt officials? Yes, it is.  It's why they and their media Quislings twist the intentions and language of their opponents. It shows how much these county officials loath the Constitution and the law of the land.

At first, I thought that it was the great work by a single woman, Peggy Hall, who was responsible for the Orange County Board of Supervisors' decision to repeal the mask mandate there.  Turns out that it wasn't just the work of a single woman but of many people.  It turns out that it wasn't Hall specifically; in fact, she objects to protestors showing up at the residents of officials' homes.  So the real women who put the fear of God into these OC Board of Supervisors were the two women Nicole Monteilh Brown and attorney, Leigh Dundas.  Be sure to watch Dundas' presentation to the OC Board of Supervisors.  It was superb. 

Bob, regarding your post "This is Why The Mask Mandate Was Repealed in Orange County."  The author writes,

I hate to break it to you but here's what really happened in Orange County. I know that Peggy Hall says a lot of good stuff & that she likes to take credit for the OC mask repeal, but it's not the case. If you watch the following you'll understand. On her Facebook group, Hall recently posted that she DOES NOT CONDONE protesting outside of anyone's house. Yet that is 100% legal and its actually what got the OC order repealed. 

And it looks like the protest outside Orange County Supervisor Nicole Quick's home residence is what got the mandate overturned.  Is this the way that that government forces its citizens to act?  Apparently, so.  So just as politicians use rhetoric to lie and obfuscate, that rhetoric is their bread and butter.  When Americans use rhetoric, the politicos crawl in a hole. 

Pay attention:

Footage Of Anti-Maskers At OC Board Meeting: MUST SEE

Over 100 anti-mask citizens spoke at this very contentious board of supervisors meeting in Orange County, California on May 26. Nicole Monteilh Brown said, "You have seen how the people have been forced to exercise their First Amendment. Be wise, and do not force the residents of this county into feeling they have no other choice but to exercise their Second Amendment."

Brown's friend, attorney 

Leigh Dundas Esq, then READ NICHOLE QUICK'S HOME ADDRESS ON THE RECORD AT THE BOARD MEETING and then a group of them protested outside Quick's house. The OC sheriff then claimed that Quick was scared for her life & they offered her 24/7 protection. Quick resigned the next morning and her replacement, even though he was pro-mask, rescinded the order. So, literally invoking the 2nd Amendment  and listing Quick's home address is exactly why the OC order was revoked. 

After the meeting, many people went to protest at County Health Officer Dr. Nichole Quick's home. She resigned the next day in shame, and her replacement rescinded the face mask order. This is a blueprint.  https://nofacemask.blogspot.com/2020/06/footage-of-anti-maskers-at-oc-board.html

Want to know a little about Attorney, Leigh Dundas?  Check out her May 26, 2020 appeal to the OC Board of Supervisors . . . 

And here she is on the hypoxic dangers of wearing masks. 

Attorney Discusses Wearing Masks- Scientific & Legal Repercussions  

Here is her advice on reporting the hypoxic dangers of wearing masks: 

Report it to my boss.

Report it to corporate. 

Report it to the store manager, if you're not an employee there and you don't like the mandate.

Report it to OSHA.

Report it to the media.

And report it to 911 if I were feeling really badly. 

A few more details about this, the Orange County Board of Supervisors even to this day have edited the public footage of that meeting where the attorney listed doctor Quick's home address, yet it was reported in numerous outlets including the L. A. Times. The lawyer also revealed Dr. Quick's boyfriend's name. 😅Hilarious! and furthermore, the claim that that one-minute clip by Peggy Hall where she threatens to sue Chau, (who is now the Orange County medical officer, the one who rescinded order,) Chau and other government bureaucrats are not afraid in the least of being sued by anybody. Many many lawsuits have been dismissed nationwide in the past few months by people who are suing counties over the mask mandates. 

Bureaucrats are never held personally liable anyway, so Chau did not in any way rescind the order because of a threat of a silly lawsuit in which that the judge is going to side with the county anyway. 

Nicole Monteilh Brown invoked the 2nd Amendment and her friend, attorney Leigh Dundas listed Dr. Quick's home address & her boyfriend's name, and then a bunch of them went directly to her house after the meeting. They have more cajones than most men in America, and these 2 women deserve the real credit for getting the OC mask order repealed. 

It's very clear what happened here to anyone who's actually following it. Thank you.  https://nofacemask.blogspot.com/2020/07/wearing-masks-scientific-legal.html

This story just gets too delicious.  The SpectrumNews1 reporter, The City News Service, wrote that 

Some protesters unfurled a banner with a picture of Quick, who is Jewish, with a Hitler mustache and a swastika on it.  Brown called Gov. Gavin Newsom "Adolph Newsom" in her statement to the board. 

You'll want some protection against hypoxia if you wear a mask with any regularity.  It's called Benfotiamine.  It's a B vitamin that carries more oxygen in your blood to the different tissues in your body.  

"WHAT MAKES UP THE THINKING BOXES IN OUR SKULL"

from CNET via Drudge Report

Thirty years ago, George Paxinos noticed an unusual assortment of cells lurking near the brain stem--but he didn't think much of it.

Going over the region in 2018, he was once again struck by it. Now Paxinos' new research suggests that the cluster of cells is definitely important. In fact, it appears to be a completely unknown region of the human brain. The early suggestion is that this bundle of neurons may be responsible for fine motor control, dictating our ability to strum the guitar, write and play sports.

Professor Paxinos is one of the world's most respected "brain cartographers". He creates atlases of human and animal brains that allow neuroscientists, brain surgeons and clinicians to get a better grasp of just what makes up the thinking boxes in our skull.

Coming back to the region that he was originally interested in before publishing his first atlas 28 years ago led to the discovery of the tiny grouping of brain cells. He's crowned the new region "the Endorestiform nucleus" because of its location at the base of the brain in the restiform body.

"One intriguing thing about this endorestiform nucleus is that it seems to be present only in the human, we have not been able to detect it in the rhesus monkey or the marmoset that we have studied," he explained.

It's location, between the brain stem and the spinal cord, is the only inkling we currently have about the brain cells function. As Paxinos has been unable to locate the same region in other apes, he guesses that it must be useful in the fine motor control that humans are so uniquely good at.

You can hear professor Paxinos discuss the finding in the video below.

However, while the structure does appear to be important, further work will be required to understand how its function relates to its form. Paxinos only journeys into the brain to craft a map so it will be up to other intrepid brain explorers to journey back to the center of the neural bundle and learn more. 

The oft-repeated line about our brains containing as many neurons as there are stars in the galaxy doesn't quite ring true--but with some 86 billion neurons pulsing away upstairs, improving our understanding of the brain is still a mammoth task. Discoveries like this allow scientists and researchers to understand normal brain physiology, providing great insight on how or why things go wrong in pathologies such as Alzheimer's or motor neuron disease. 

By the way, if you're concerned about the fears of Alzheimer's, be sure to read Bill Sardi's work [here, here, and here] on the one molecule that is poised to eradicate that disease.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT BENFOTIAMINE CURES AND PREVENTS ALZHEIMER'S IS EXPECTED SOON

A few quotes from Bill Sardi.  

One,

There is a doctor in Italy who is astonishingly curing Parkinson's disease with B1 shots (mostly among alcoholics).   

Two, 

Because of poor absorption, it is unlikely the best diet or fortified foods can overcome a state of B1 deficiency. 

Three,

Vitamin B1 is well provided but just not absorbed or is rapidly excreted (diuretics). 

Four, 

An announcement of the highly absorbable fat-soluble form of vitamin B1 (Benfotiamine) cures and prevents Alzheimer's disease is expected soon. 

And Five,

One of the ways widespread nutritional deficiencies remain hidden is that blood tests only reveal what is called the reference range (commonly occurring range), not the healthy range.

I remember sitting in an Anatomy class at UC Irvine back in 1990 and how the professor made the comment that vitamin supplements only produce expensive urine.  My thought that followed was "Why would he make such a claim?  Was it to direct all health authority to the practitioners of health, to doctors?  Was he a spokesman for doctors?"  I didn't know.  I didn't know his credentials.  I should have checked.  But it was an Anatomy class.  He made other cracks, too, that I didn't like.  Years passed before I began to understand how universities are staffed with folks loyal to the medical industrial complex and not necessarily to human health.  This is one reason I appreciate the work of nutritional journalists, especially Bill Sardi.  

Sardi in his article, "Just Remember Dietary Supplements Are Not Supported By Science And Are A Waste of Money," reminds us, perhaps constantly so, that nutritional supplements play an important, nay, vital role in providing health, in recovering from illness and injury, as well as stave off the ravages of age-related diseases.  Troubling is the fact that we don't read as much as we should learn about the benefits, or that we begin to read regrettably when it is a bit late.  In his latest reminder, Sardi lists the benefits of certain vitamins. 

Folic Acid prevents spinal defects during birth.

In the 1990s grain products were fortified with folic acid to prevent birth defects (spina bifida, anencephaly) . . . 

Folic Acid prevents strokes; prevents deaths from stroke, and facilitates better and faster recovery.  You probably need to be on Folic Acid daily to get these results.  I wouldn't wait until after the fact if you know what I mean. 

and a decline in stroke-related mortality was reported. Researchers then subsequently reported that 31,000 stroke-associated deaths may have been prevented by folic acid food fortification. Folic acid blood levels doubled during this period (from 6.6 to 15 nanograms/milliliter per blood sample) with an accompanying 14% decline in homocysteine blood levels, which was believed to be the mechanism responsible for the decline.

If you're not familiar with Bill Sardi, a nutritional journalist who has been studying, reviewing, reporting on the supplement industry since the 1970s, and you're unsure whether to take his word, then check his sources.

Here is the Lancet:

Then in 2007 The Lancet journal reported that folic acid (vitamin B9) supplementation reduces stroke risk by 18%.

Here is the Journal of the American Medical Association:

Then again in 2015 the Journal of the American Medical Association reported the combined use of a blood pressure pill (enalapril) and folic acid, but not the drug alone, significantly reduced the risk for first stroke.

Maybe my old UC Irvine Anatomy professor could read an article or two by Bill Sardi and learn . . . learn something beyond the 3 x 5 index card of allowable opinion on vitamin supplements.  But it appears that my old Anatomy professor was not alone, that, in fact, there was an industry consensus that multivitamins were a waste of money.  Read for yourself.

Thereafter organized medicine reached a consensus that:

Dietary supplements are still popular despite little evidence they're useful. – Science-Based Medicine

Study after study has demonstrated that favorites like multivitamins don’t actually improve outcomes on a number of health measures. - VOX.com

Multivitamins are a waste of money, doctors say. – Scientific American

There is no evidence that taking a multivitamin regularly has the ability to ward off chronic diseases. – LiveScience.com

Thankfully, opinions change.  The results of Folic Acid on stroke and its effects are a stunning 73% decline.  

Fast forward to today. . . . News reports claim a massive 73% decline in strokes and stroke-related death among the highest risk patients and a 21% decline in stroke overall with folic acid supplementation.

If we're 65 and older, we should be taking Folic Acid daily.  

About 795,000 people suffer a stroke each year in the U.S. and more than 140,000 people die from stroke. Most strokes occur among adults over age 65. If a recent study holds true for every senior American, the consumption of a multivitamin with folic acid could reduce the number of strokes from 795,000 to 628,050 (166,950 fewer strokes). Stroke death rates would dramatically plunge too. And they say vitamin supplements are worthless. Go figure.

Folic Acid reduces strokes in folks with high blood pressure from 5.6% to 1.8%.  Can you doctor's prescription claim that?  Ha.

Strokes occur among individuals who have high blood pressure. Their risk for stroke is 5.6% and folic acid drastically reduces this risk to 1.8% in high-risk groups.

Imagine the savings in healthcare costs if folks supplemented daily with Folic Acid.  I didn't realize that stroke-related costs run $34 billion a year.

With strokes costing $34 billion a year, a public health agenda to encourage all senior Americans to supplement with folic acid could theoretically reduce strokes costs to $26.9 billion, a savings of $7.9 billion.

According to the Census Bureau, there were 49.2 million Americans over age 65 in 2016. At $.20 [cents] per folic acid pill, it would cost $3.59 billion for American seniors to protect themselves from a stroke. Net savings would be ~$4.3 billion. It appears modern medicine is throwing away health dollars and lives for its bias against dietary supplements. Obviously, folic acid pills far exceeded what food fortification began over two decades ago.

Folic Acid is required for DNA repair.  Blood vessels are damaged without adequate folic acid.  

The researchers noted that a low folic acid level was associated with a low blood platelet count. Folic acid is required to repair DNA. It then follows that wall of blood vessels and blood platelets are damaged and platelet count declines without adequate folic acid. Blood platelets are responsible for blood clotting, a necessary part of wound healing.

If this is true, and I have no reason so far to doubt it, why then do university professors, representatives for modern medicine, continue in their claim that vitamin supplements and multi-vitamin supplements, in particular, are of no benefit?  

Sardi addresses this too. 

HOW MODERN MEDICINE CONCLUDES DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS ARE UNNECESSARY

Here is how modern medicine comes to its erroneous conclusion [that] dietary supplements are not needed: 

. . . a good diet will provide all the nutrients necessary for health. 

Of course, that position is self-serving as modern medicine games human populations for more disease to treat.

A good diet is not enough to stave off disease or to maintain health.  And I particularly like Sardi calling out "high-calorie malnutrition."  Wow.  I wonder if one of the reasons that vitamin supplementation is frowned upon by the medical industry and its representatives at the universities is that for vitamins to be effective, one must remove sugars, high-glycemic carbohydrates, and alcohols from one's diet.  These foods are representative of huge industries.  You tell people that B1 improves this, restores that, and prevents this on condition that they stop consuming one of these foods, then you might see the conflict of interest that the university reps protect.  

Beriberi, the name for the disease that emanates from a deficiency of thiamin (vitamin B1), is broadly prevalent [in] well-fed societies as it is induced by "high-calorie malnutrition" given that added sugars, carbohydrates, alcohol, and even tea block its absorption. 

Okay, here is another bullet point for those 50 and up managing stomach acid.

The progressive decline in stomach acid secretion with advancing age is yet another reason why B1 deficiency is highly prevalent but unrecognized. 

What is interesting that B1 deficiency is not easily recognizable or detectable.  Sardi says that "it defies detection as a collective disease." And my guess is that the physician who doesn't know much about nutrition, will diagnose B1 deficiency as some psychiatric condition and compel him to write a referral to a psychiatrist rather than informally recommend a patient to take 2 B1 tablets every day for the next week, then call him by week's end.  

Derrick Lonsdale, the reigning expert on vitamin B1, says thiamin deficiency has a low mortality and a long morbidity.

That low-mortality and long-morbidity mean that a B1 deficiency won't kill you, but it will present the symptoms of illness, the kind that is chronic or "long morbidity." 

Because B1 deficiency is associated with so many maladies (autism, diabetic complications, disruptive autonomic [nervous] system disorders, heart failure, neuropathy, sudden infant death, alcoholism, it defies detection as a collective disease. An announcement of the highly absorbable fat-soluble form of vitamin B1 (Benfotiamine) cures and prevents Alzheimer's disease is expected soon. There is a doctor in Italy who is astonishingly curing Parkinson's disease with B1 shots (mostly among alcoholics).

B1 can be found aplenty in our food supply and even through supplementation.  Supply is not the issue: absorption is.  

Because of poor absorption, it is unlikely the best diet or fortified foods can overcome a state of B1 deficiency. Once classified as a prison camp for malnutrition disease, beriberi is now prevalent as a disease of overconsumption. A sub-disease population is beriberi induced by water pills (diuretics). Modern medicine can't imagine how a B vitamin deficiency prevails in a well-fed population. Vitamin B1 is well provided but just not absorbed or is rapidly excreted (diuretics).

What's terrible is that the symptoms of a B1 deficiency show up as mild cognitive, even psychiatric in nature, and so not knowing that they are deficient in B1, some folks seek relief via marijuana, which only exacerbates the symptoms.  Ugh.  

According to the US Department of Agriculture "only" 18.4% of Americans consume an inadequate amount of thiamin (that's ~57 million Americans), not enough to cause a run on health food stores, but millions more simply don't absorb or retain B1. The B1-deficient run for marijuana instead.

[BESIDES B1 & FOLIC ACID, THERE IS] ANOTHER OVERLOOKED B VITAMIN DEFICIENCY

Healthy ranges used to measure values in your blood are mistaken and often result in poor detection of B12 deficiency.  

Pernicious (vitamin B12) anemia is prevalent depending upon the blood level used to define deficiency. Up to 40% of US adults may be B12 deficient. One of the ways widespread nutritional deficiencies remain hidden is that blood tests only reveal what is called the reference range (commonly occurring range), not the healthy range. If massive numbers of people are B12 deficient then that becomes the reference range, which mistakenly can lead to the false belief an individual has a normal (common) blood level but is deficient.

Doctors misdiagnose all the time, often for self-serving interests. 

It is common for doctors to look at a blood test and mistakenly conclude whatever symptoms a patient is suffering from are not caused by a shortage of vitamin B12.

False normal B12 blood tests are common. This is likely why many older adults with so-called normal blood levels experience clearance of symptoms upon B12 supplementation.

For me at least, B12 gave me back my circadian rhythms, and I am able to return to a regular sleep pattern, one where my sleep is uninterrupted and deep; not long, just deep and I wake rested.  B12 does this.  

B12 deficiency may be rampant, especially among certain groups (vegetarians, gastric bypass patients, users of B12 depleting drugs (metformin, antacids), yet public health authorities will claim prevalence of deficiency is low. A US Department of Agriculture report issued over a decade ago noted that 4 or 10 Americans "may be flirting with vitamin B12 deficiency." 

Even milder symptoms that we dismiss with a wave of the hand could be a B12 deficiency.

Many chronic unsuspected symptoms of B12 deficiency such as a chronic cough and back pain, may never be counted in estimates of the prevalence of B12 pathology.

The comparative costs of supplementation are in your favor. 

JUST REMEMBER, the prevailing position by modern medicine, despite the science, is that vitamin supplements are needless. You must be a crazy, eccentric, ignorant, easily misled fool to be caught taking dietary supplements. Best to take them in your closet where nobody will see you. Because of this attitude, many patients simply hide the fact from their doctors [that] they are loading up with vitamins every day. Still, Americans only spend ~$8 a month on dietary supplements and ~$250 a month on drugs. It should be the other way around.

COFFEE: DON'T WORRY ABOUT CANCER; WORRY ABOUT IT DEPLETING B1, THIAMINE

Well, don't expect to learn of the real value of food or their nutritional compounds from non-profits.  Starbucks, and other sellers inside California, has been ordered to post a warning that their coffee contains carcinogens.  Oh, brother.  This is terrible.  Whether coffee contains carcinogens or not is not why this is a terrible regulation.  What's terrible is that the customer may find a message on his cup that reads similar to the cigarette warning of:  

SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING:

Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy

What's dumb about it is that the warning itself is subliminal.  It's a message that the consumer inhales with each bite, sip, puff puff, or what have you.

Further, the compound that has been designated a carcinogen is acrylamide, a chemical used in the roasting process.  And the article does not go into what kinds of cancers what might get with acrylamide.  So there are no details.  

Thursday, March 29, 2018 07:53PM

LOS ANGELES (KABC) --

A judge ruled that Starbucks and other coffee sellers in California must provide a cancer warning on their products for customers.

A nonprofit group sued several companies that sell coffee, including Starbucks, coffee distributors and retailers in 2010.

The lawsuit claimed those companies violated state law, which requires them to warn consumers about chemicals in the roasting process that may cause cancer. One of those chemicals is acrylamide, which is a carcinogen.

Attorneys for about 90 companies said the chemical is present in the process, but that it's at harmless levels and is outweighed by the benefits of drinking a cup of coffee.

The ruling came despite eased concerns in recent years about the possible dangers of coffee, with some studies finding health benefits. In 2016, the International Agency for Research on Cancer--the cancer agency of the World Health Organization--moved coffee off its "possible carcinogen" list.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Coffee is a mixed bag nutritionally speaking.  It is a mild mineral chelator.  That can be good if someone already has cancer and they're trying to reduce absorption to more heavy minerals, like iron, mercury, and calcium.  Coffee is good for your vision.  So it has a couple of benefits.  But if someone is an addictive drinker of coffee, like I was, it can deplete B vitamins to the point that you'll actually feel tired.  That's not good.  But again this only after a week or two of steady coffee drinking of 3 to 4 cups a day, depending on your current B vitamin status.  You may already be deficient in B vitamins adn then drinking coffee on a regular basis, well, then it's not good for you.  So it's not so much that the coffee is bad; it's that your body requires daily sustained amounts of B vitamins.  Get it?  Good.  Read Bill Sardi on this.  

The problem of thiamin deficiency may be traced to another daily practice, the consumption of coffee, tea or beer. Many millions of people consume coffee or tea at the same time they take their morning multivitamin. What's the problem with tea or coffee? They contain tannins (bitter parts) that alter vitamin B1 and render it useless. Sulfite preservatives, as found in wine, are another antagonist to B1. Alcohol also interferes with B1 absorption. In fact, about 30-80% of alcohol users have low circulating levels of B1. The lesson here is not to take vitamin B1 pills with coffee, tea or alcohol. 

Forget about cancer.  This is what you really have to worry about from your addicting consumption of coffee.  A cup or two per day may not be that bad, but be sure that you're taking B1 away from your coffee consumption.  

A policeman is flagged down by a 32-year-old woman at a park in Joliet, Illinois who says she can't remember who she is or how she got there. She is later found to be a mother of four children living in Jackson, Michigan. Her name is Amber. She has not recovered memory of her earlier life or what triggered her amnesia. Doctors are at a loss to know what caused this case of "global amnesia."

Marie is college educated, with a father who is a physician and mother who is a nurse, and she can't find anyone who can tell her why she is experiencing severe nausea and vomiting early in her first pregnancy. No one seems to know. Folk remedies are sought. Despite being the most common torment of pregnancy, the cause of morning sickness remains a mystery. Or is it?

Jim, a rock sculptor living near Ontario, California, looks like Indiana Jones in the movie Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Prop him up on a bar stool drinking down some brew and he would fit into any beer commercial. He is manly but has an unmanly and embarrassing problem. All of a sudden he can't seem to control his bowels. He is running to the bathroom all the time. His doctor says it is irritable bowel syndrome, a now common condition that forces sufferers to be closely tethered to bathrooms. A drug is prescribed that slows down gastric transit time but induces sleepiness, and can't be taken while driving. But what is the cause of his problem?

Jackie is out of work and living in Santa Fe, New Mexico and suffering with relentless pain that has been diagnosed as fibromyalgia. Doctors don't seem to have an answer as to what causes this problem. Inexplicably, a number of people with fibromyalgia report having the same problem as Jim the rock sculptor (above), irritable bowel. Are the two conditions linked in any way? An estimated 5 million Americans have fibromyalgia, some of them children.

Robert, an award-winning journalist, wakes up one morning with a slight weakness in his left leg. Then he begins to lose his ability to speak. He has to say "yes" or "no" by shifting his eyes. Doctors offer an experimental drug. For unexplained reasons, doctors delay treatment until Robert loses feeling throughout his body and is now permanently confined to a wheelchair. Doctors say Robert had a bout of Guillain Barré syndrome that never went into remission as most other cases do. Again, doctors have no idea of the cause of this progressive loss of nervous system control, some believing it is triggered by a virus.

Steve, age 35, had been suffering heart palpitations for years and finally was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, a quivering heart muscle in the top chambers of the heart. Surgery and medication began to slowly help Steve regain his energy. Steve wonders if his children will inherit his problem. Despite successful treatment, neither surgery nor medication addresses the still unknown cause of atrial fibrillation. Millions of Americans, mostly men, face this same problem. Treatment consists of prescribing blood thinners to prevent a blood clot in the heart being thrown into the lungs or brain and controlled destruction of the heart muscle (ablation) itself. But what is its cause?

Martin, at age 56, first noticed could not keep up with his 70-year old brother in law when out hunting. He began to experience shortness of breath, fatigue, swelling in his ankles and a persistent cough. The diagnosis: heart failure. The cure: the implantation of a device in his chest that helps his heart pump blood. The device is credited with saving his life. More commonly heart failure is treated with a battery of drugs. But a recent study shows the drugs are of negligible value. 

RESVERATROL . . . WORKS TO RESTORE BRAIN TISSUE AFTER TRAUMA

My dad was a big fan of professional and amateur boxing.  It was popular in his day.  I couldn't stand it.  Too violent.  Who would willfully step into the ring to get their brains splayed?  That sport was not for me.  Nor was football.  Basketball was as close as I would come to a contact sport, though I did love baseball, I just never played in any organized team or league.  I ran.  I ran cross country, ran track, and played basketball.  Later I played tennis, and that's what I stuck with for most of my life.  Economists might point out that these athletes know the risks, and so they trade off high salaries for the risk of a serious injury.  I would say that they understand the risks, that they've agreed to the risks, and then take every precaution to prepare for and avoid the risk.  Or as best they can.  Until that one day when they're in the middle of an important game, and WHAM!  They don't know the risks unless they know of other players whose football career was destroyed because of an injury, not to speak of a post-football career if one, in fact, exists for them.  

On the video, h/t Jason Kottke.

But what are these young men doing for their organs?  Do they have a pregame vitamin or nutritional regimen?  Do they think that exercise alone is enough for health?  To young, healthy, strong young men, it may seem that way.  But they need more.  They need vitamin C for blood vessel integrity.  All of the blood vessels--veins, arteries, capillaries.  Approximately 6 to 8 grams a day of oral vitamin C.  For bones and muscles, it is vitmain D.  For brain tissue, it is Benfotiamine.  I wishsed someone inside or outside the league would get this information to these guys. 

There are other compounds you'll want to keep on the back of your mind in case something awful happens to somone you love.  The reports on resveratrol's benefits on brain trauma are absolutely stunning.  

Four years ago (2013) a mega-dose of resveratrol was shown to remarkably reduce damage to the brain 5and 12 hours AFTER mild brain trauma.  The intentional brain injury was included in lab animals and overcome with a human equivalent single dose of 7000 milligrams of resveratrol, which would be impractical and problematic dose over the long term.  But it does provide evidence for the use of resveratrol in brain injuries. 

In anotheranimal study a similar protective effect was observed in laboratory animals that had heavy weights dropped on their skulls and mega-dose resveratrol had a healing effect upon brain neurons after the event. 

In yet another animal study daily mega-dose resveratrol was administered and reduced brain edema (swelling) and improved cognition (thinking).  Researchers concluded, “resveratrol may represent a novel therapeutic strategy for traumatic brain injury.” 

There are other corroborative studies.

Resveratrol is not just a preventive but also therapeutic (i.e., it works to restore brain tissues after trauma).

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HEARING VOICES IS A SIGN OF A WELL-TUNED BRAIN

If you start to hear voices, don't worry.  That's the sound of a well-organized brain say researchers from Durham, England.  Many folks will hear voices at night as they lie their head down to go to bed.  While others hear voices throughout the day, but these episodes are sporadic and fleeting.  It is not a sign of a mental illness.  In fact, "it’s a clue that a person’s brain is simply well-tuned to many sounds."

DURHAM, England — Hearing voices may not be a sign of mental illness as much as it’s a clue that a person’s brain is simply well-tuned to many sounds. A new study finds that healthy people who hear voices have differently-wired brains that find speech patterns in other sounds.

Researchers from Durham University studied brain-response differences between two groups of people — those who have experienced hearing voices (auditory verbal hallucinations) and those who have never mistaken other sounds for speech. Participants in the study included 17 people with typical responses to sounds and 12 people who have experienced hearing voices, but do not have any mental health problems.

Can hearing voices be a good thing? A new study finds that people who are not mentally ill, but often hear speech in sounds may actually have a special skill that comes from having a differently-wired brain than the rest of us.

Participants underwent an MRI brain scan while listening to hidden speech sounds, known as sine-wave speech. Sine-wave speech to the untrained ear would sound something like birdsong or alien-type noises. Typically, people are able to make out these sounds only after they have been clued in to listen for them or taught to decode the hidden speech sounds. After people are trained, though, they can detect simple sentences within the sounds, such as “The clown had a funny face.”

Researchers found that less than half of those with typical listening skills noticed the hidden speech while 75 percent of the voice-hearers picked it up.

“It suggests that the brains of people who hear voices are particularly tuned to meaning in sounds,” says lead author Dr. Ben Alderson-Day in a university release.

Researchers were surprised that the voice-hearers had such strong neural responses to the sounds with hidden speech. Even before being told to listen for hidden speech, voice-hearers reported hearing the voices in the sounds. They found speech-like sounds faster and more easily than those who have never experienced the phenomenon of hearing voices.

“We did not tell the participants that the ambiguous sounds could contain speech before they were scanned, or ask them to try to understand the sounds. Nonetheless, these participants showed distinct neural responses to sounds containing disguised speech, as compared to sounds that were meaningless,” adds co-author Dr. Cesar Lima.

The authors believe this shows that the brains of voice-hearers are more perceptive to the hidden meanings in sounds. The areas of the brain that control attention were quickly activated in the brains of voice-hearers when they were exposed to hidden speech compared to when they were listening to vague sounds.

“These findings are a demonstration of what we can learn from people who hear voices that are not distressing or problematic,” says Alderson-Day.

Between 5 and 15 percent of the population has occasionally had the experience of hearing voices. Although not everyone who hears voices has a mental health problem, it is commonly associated with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

Researchers hope their findings could someday help scientists and clinicians find better ways to help those who are troubled by the voices they hear.

Be sure to protect your brain nonetheless.