Don't poison kids with TTFD, use Benfotiamine instead
- Subject: Don't poison kids with TTFD, use Benfotiamine instead
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:30:19 -0000
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For those who think their child needs more thiamine than they can
absorb by using the regular stuff, there are alternatives to TTFD.
Benfotiamine is one. It releases fairly benign benzoic acid rather
than toxic tetrahydrofurfuryl mercaptan when the thiamine is set free.
Also benfotiamine has the thaimine in the semi-active
monophosphorylated form while TTFD does not.
You can find info at www.benfotiamine.org and can order it from
www.benfotiamine.net (there are probably other sources as well).
Since benfotiamine does not have the toxicity of TTFD, it can be used
by mouth rather than transdermally.
BTW, both benfotiamine and TTFD were developed for the same purpose -
preventing alcoholic neuropathy and psychosis - and for this purpose
they do both work reasonably well.
Andy . . . . . . . . . .
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