Stakeholder Panel Meeting Book - September 6, 2014

Vitamin B 1 , Thiamin “The first water‐soluble vitamin”  First discovered in 1910 and gave birth to  the term vitamine ( vital amine ) in 1912.  Thiamin was first isolated and characterized  in 1926, and was designated B 1 in 1927.  The name thiamine is derived from thio‐ vitamine meaning the sulfur containing  vitamin.

Vitamin B 1

deficiency

 B 1 dependent processes are present in  every cell in your body!  The nervous system is particularly sensitive  to B 1 deficiency due to the importance of  oxidative metabolism   The most common syndromes of B 1 deficiency are beriberi, Wernicke‐Korsakoff,  and optic neuropathy.

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