Thiamine is used to treat various genetic disorders linked to the above metabolic pathways and thiamine deficiency syndromes ( beriberi and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome). Nutrition science is built on faulty logic, but one investigative journalist is setting the record straight. Two nutrients that had no effect on mortality via supplementation were shown to be protective when taken in the form of food. But is it really about the nutrients? Lipid-soluble thiamine derivatives were developed mainly in Japan for the treatment of beriberi . It was therefore surprising that sulbutiamine appeared to exert specific effects on brain function.
