What are some unusual symptoms of Vitamin B1 deficiency?

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) is important for your nerves, and a deficiency in vitamin B1 can impact all parts of your nervous system.

Vitamin B1 is necessary to give energy to a specific cell that makes myelin. Myelin is a coating around your nervous system. If that coating breaks down because of vitamin B1 deficiency, various negative things can start to happen.

Bizarre symptoms of vitamin B1 deficiency:

• Tourette syndrome

• Ataxia

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

• ADHD

• POTS syndrome

• MS symptoms

• Fibromyalgia symptoms

• Chronic fatigue syndrome

• Peripheral neuropathy