The Importance of Vitamin B1
So, that will fix the pump, but the very reason why the pump went bad is what we want to talk about next: a deficiency of vitamin B1. When you eat sugar in the body, it has to be broken down into a smaller sugar molecule called glucose. Then it has to enter the mitochondria to be turned into energy. In order for it to go from this step to this step, this one little enzyme, transketolase, requires vitamin B1. If you don’t have enough,
