The #1 REAL Reason Why You Are Tired
Let’s talk about why you’re always tired and how to have more energy.
Your mitochondria generate energy, but thiamine is like the mitochondria’s spark plug. Thiamine (vitamin B1) is essential to help you convert fuel into energy to help you feel more energetic and power all your body’s systems.
Symptoms of a vitamin B1 deficiency:
- Brain fog
- Problems with your mood
- Stress
- Sleep problems
- Problems with digestion
- Low recovery from stress
- Low recovery from exercise
- High reactivity
- Cold or heat intolerance
- Fatigue
- Edema
- High pulse rate
- POTS
- Shortness of breath
- Hypersensitivity to odours
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Poor immunity and recovery after an infection
There are also things that cause people to need more vitamin B1, including:
- A high-carb or high-sugar diet
- Certain medications
- Being overweight
- Diabetes
- Chronic inflammation
- Infections
- Vaccines
- Alcohol consumption
- Insulin resistance
- Mold
- Lyme disease
- Allergies
- Digestive problems
Things that deplete vitamin B1:
- Tea
- Coffee
- Red wine
- Alcohol
- Sugar
- Metformin
- Sulfites
- Raw fish
- Unripened fruit
- Caffeine
- Stress
- Seed oils
To increase your energy, you need to fix the underlying cause of your vitamin B1 deficiency. You also need to consume foods high in vitamin B1 or take a vitamin B1 supplement.
Foods rich in vitamin B1:
- Pork
- Salmon
- Sunflower seeds
- Acorn squash
- Eggs
- Nutritional yeast