B1 (thiamine, aneurine) is called a "mood vitamin", since it affects the state of the nervous system and mind. No energy exchange process in the body does not pass without the participation of B1, including such important as the process of building DNA.
What foods contain vitamin B1?
How to replenish your body? It is everywhere, and especially in such tissues as the liver and heart. It is a lot of in a flour of a rough grinding. In whole wheat and unpolished rice, there is much more thiamine than in white bread.
The main products in our country, which contain vitamin B1 are: peas, beans , eggs, dairy products, meat (especially pork).
Vitamin B1 is also found in such products as nuts, yeast, sunflower oil, fish, fruits, vegetables.
It is also found in baking products made on yeast, however, the loss of vitamin B1 in foodstuffs during baking increases baking powder.
Few people know that vitamin B1 protects against biting flying insects (flies, mosquitoes). This is due to the characteristic, distinctive odor of the vitamin secreted with sweat. Nevertheless, we do not eat thiamine to scare off mosquitoes. In fact, it performs much more important functions in the body.
Functions of vitamin B1 in the body
- Together with two molecules of phosphoric acid form coenzyme, which is involved in the metabolism of carbohydrates.
- Increases the activity of acetylcholine.
- Inhibits cholinesterase. It acts synergistically with thyroxine and insulin. Stimulates the secretion of gonadotropin hormones.
- Relieves pain.
- Accelerates wound healing, participates in reactions leading to the synthesis of nucleic acids and fatty acids.
- He takes part in neurophysiological processes, synthesis of neurotransmitters necessary for proper transmission of nerve impulses.
- With his participation, the production of energy in the mitochondria, the renewal of proteins, thereby affecting the functioning of the entire body.
Digestibility of Vitamin B1
Vitamin B1 is an integral part of the diet, and knowledge of the products that contain and which destroy it is very important. Shortage happens if the food is very high in calories. The use of coffee, tea, chocolate and drinks with caffeine, alcohol , exhaust the reserves of thiamine, contributing to a deficit in the body. In addition, oysters, raw fish and some sea shellfish contain an enzyme that destroys it.
Deficiency of vitamin B1 leads to the development of a disease called avitaminosis. The disease is accompanied by muscle atrophy, low blood pressure, weakening of the heart muscle contraction, edema, mental disorders (depression, apathy, psychosis) and all this is a payment for ignoring the foods in which there is vitamin B1.
Prolonged absence of thiamine leads to the fixation of neurologic changes.
The complete absence of thiamine (which is extremely rare) causes numbness and burning of the feet and palms, an increase in the heart, swelling and infertility in women.