It’s beginning to look more and more that a certain type of vitamin B1 can help prevent quite a few different complications of diabetes. This vitamin is benfotiamine. Compared with thiamine, which is the more common form of vitamin B1, much more of the benfotiamine gets into our circulation – it ...
Benfotiamine versus AGEs
9/ 5/06 1:12am
Is this available OTC or is a prescription needed?
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10/ 2/06 9:33am
I have been on Benfotiamine for about a year. I was taking it to address neuropathy but found I have improved much more since going on Byetta. Best price I have found for Benfotiamine has been at
iherb.com.
David's Response:
Very interesting, Pete, that Byetta is doing a lot to control your neuropathy. Is it because your blood glucose levels have come down so much?
10/30/07 3:52pm
A Brittish study, published in Diabetologia (2007) suggests that diabetics are deficient in vitamin B1.
Thornalley PJ, Babaei-Jadedi R, Al Ali H, et al. High prevalence of low plasma thiamine concentration in diabetes linked to a marker of vascular disease. Diabetologia 2007 Aug 4;
http://tinyurl.com/2zd6eh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6935482.stm
German doctors recommended benfotiamine for diabetics in the Annual Meeting of the Diabetes Association in May 2007 in Hamburg (Tagung der Deutschen Diabetes-Gesellschaft DDG).
Also Hungarian diabetes specialts seem to recommend benfotiamine
http://tinyurl.com/3yg55k
http://tinyurl.com/2pdkp5
11/28/10 12:13pm
I have been taking 300mg daily for at least three years. One in morning and one at night. Since I am on social security some times I cannot afford to purchase it. During those times neuropathy in my feet (especially) gets much more painful. I have been out of it for two months and know the difference. However, I had not been told to take it at meal time. I did drop the recommended dose down to the 300 mg instead of 450 mg reccommended because it is oil based and I was hoping for no complications. Great stuff!!!
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