What is the function of vitamin B1

  Vitamin B1 is found in many foods and in some quantity can be synthesized normal microflora inhabiting the human intestine. During the heat treatment of food, as well as in the refining of grains thiamine partially destroyed; it lost 25% of the vitamin.

  On absorption B1 adversely affect consumption alcohol-containing beverages, coffee and the food containing the compound and carbonic salts of citric acid. Absorption of vitamin also significantly reduced in people suffering from nicotine addiction.

Why the need for vitamin B1?

  Thiamine is directly involved in almost all metabolic processes (lipid and protein metabolism, as well as the assimilation of amino acids), acting at the cellular level. It is necessary to provide the body with energy.

  Vitamin B1 is largely dependent functional activity in the brain. Compound participates in the biosynthesis of acetylcholine, - neurotransmitter responsible for the transmission of impulses in the central nervous system. Drinking enough B1 markedly improves cognitive function and ability to remember, and provides a normal tonus of the digestive tract and myocarditis. Thiamine is responsible for transmitting information on the gene level, which occurs during cell division.