Thank you for such an entertaining and broad array of vitamin related knowledge. I have noticed that many people are commenting that oral absorption of thiamine is impaired in alcoholics just as this segment does; I cannot find where this comes from. Can you provide me the scientific foundation for this statement?
Great question! Here is an article by Thomson AD (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11304071). Open access article can be found here: http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/alcalc/35/Supplement_1/2.full.pdf. Hope that helps!
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Venk Bellamkonda - October 8, 2016 11:33 AM
Thank you for such an entertaining and broad array of vitamin related knowledge. I have noticed that many people are commenting that oral absorption of thiamine is impaired in alcoholics just as this segment does; I cannot find where this comes from. Can you provide me the scientific foundation for this statement?
Paul J. - October 8, 2016 2:35 PM
Great question! Here is an article by Thomson AD (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11304071). Open access article can be found here: http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/alcalc/35/Supplement_1/2.full.pdf. Hope that helps!