This Forgotten Vitamin INSTANTLY Stops Sugar From Destroying Your Body (not what you think)

High blood sugar does more than raise a number on your meter. Extra glucose can attach to proteins in your blood vessels, nerves, and joints, forming advanced glycation end products (AGEs). This video follows the strange history of vitamin B1 (thiamine) and benfotiamine, from a glowing test tube in a Kyoto lab and a Japanese navy ship that sailed the same route twice, to the modern human trials, including the ones that found nothing. You'll learn why people with diabetes can lose up to three quarters of their plasma vitamin B1 through the kidneys, how the enzyme transketolase reroutes excess sugar away from damage pathways, why your A1C is itself a glycation test, why benfotiamine is not truly "fat soluble" despite what labels say, and how garlic, cooking method, coffee, and raw fish affect your B1. We also cover what Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka does and does not have to do with this story, the doses used in the research, and who should avoid high-dose benfotiamine, including people who are pregnant and those taking furosemide, metformin, or fluorouracil. Kyoto University, Research Activities 2015, "Alinamin and Dr. Motonori Fujiwara" (glowing tube, 0.1 g garlic, garlic toast, 10x urine levels, 1954 launch, CiRA and Takeda 64 years later): https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sites/default/files/embed/jaaboutpublicissueresearch_activitiesdocuments2015vol5no2history.pdf Kyoto University Museum, Fujiwara Papers on allithiamine: https://www.rra.museum.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/archives/2692 Sugiyama Y, Seita A. Kanehiro Takaki and the control of beriberi in the Japanese Navy. J R Soc Med, 2013: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3725862 Atlas Obscura, the Tsukuba voyage (sick crew had not eaten the new diet): https://assets.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-edo-tokyo-navy-beriberi Shinya Yamanaka, Nobel Prize biographical: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2012/yamanaka-bio.html "Jamanaka" nickname: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yama