Vitamin B1 deficiency…known as beriberi can be tested for…Beriberi just like Scurvy (vitamin C) is treatable…if not treated can lead to Congestive Heart Failure and neurological damage. Time to Test and Not Guess.
Because mild to moderate TD results in pseudo hypoxia in the limbic system and brainstem, emotional and stress reflexes of the autonomic nervous system are stimulated and exaggerated, producing symptoms often diagnosed as psychosomatic disease. If the biochemical lesion is recognized at this stage, the symptoms are easily reversible. If not, and the malnutrition continues, neurodegeneration follows and results in a variety of chronic brain diseases.
Results from acceptance of the hypothesis could be tested by performing erythrocyte transketolase tests to pick out those with TD and supplementing the affected individuals with the appropriate dietary supplements.
Med Hypotheses. 2015 Feb;84(2):129-34.
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