Heart Disease Linked to Thiamine Deficiency
Heart Disease Linked to Thiamine Deficiency
Furosemide (also known as Lasix) is a drug commonly used with congestive heart failure (CHF) patients when there is edema (excessive fluid build-up)present.
Although this treatment is quite effective for eliminating the edema, there is an interesting side effect that medical doctors disregard despite the research from their own medical journals.
Lasix depletes thiamine, the very vitamin known to be lacking in CHF patients in the first place!!
A study done in 2012 further confirms this link. It concluded:
“This study suggests that thiamine supplementation has beneficial effects on cardiac function in patients with diuretic drugs for symptomatic chronic heart failure. Subclinical thiamine deficiency is probably an underestimated issue in these outpatients.”
Why then don’t medical doctors have their patients take therapeutic dosages of thiamine?
And this deficiency isn’t limited to only adults with heart conditions. The same thiamine deficiency was also found in children with congenital heart disease (also see Heart Disease).
Children with Congenital Heart Disease
A study published in 2000 in the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition aimed to determine if the thiamine deficiency was due to malnutrition “common in children with congenital heart disease” or if the deficiency was due to loop diuretics such as Lasix.
The results left the scientists puzzled.
Since the diuretics only make the thiamine deficiency worse, it does not account for the development of the deficiency in the first place. The study claims that malnutrition doesn’t explain the thiamine deficiency either.
This is where I have questions:
- Why can’t the medical establishment reevaluate its position on nutritional requirements?
- Why the lack of interest in subclinical nutritional deficiencies resulting in health conditions?
- Why is there no research being done with regard to the countless chemicals we are exposed to on a daily basis, which are known to cause nutritional depletion in the first place?
Despite the research, and the great success of thiamine with heart patients, thiamine depleting drugs continue to remain status quo, without any recommendation for thiamine therapy.
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June 19, 2014 @ 12:31 pm
I was recommended this blog by means of my cousin. You are wonderful! Thank you!
July 24, 2014 @ 10:26 am
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September 26, 2016 @ 5:42 pm
Just a comment why do you call it holistic and not wholistic. Hole means empty no substance and whole means all inclusive and this is a better description for what you are doing
September 27, 2016 @ 12:21 pm
Hi Doug! Great observation and question. Though the word “whole” means “all” whereas the word “hole” can mean empty, because “Holistic” is based holism, meaning – entirety is why most use this spelling. Not to mention that the spelling of wholistic is not widely used or accepted as correct. But I agree with you! Wholistic technically would be the better choice.
June 11, 2017 @ 11:22 pm
JMO, answer to question one: Codex Alimentarius (sp), the UN measure that endeavors to declare vitamins as “toxins” instead of beneficial and essential to human health. Its what got Vitamin C reduced to a laughable RDA of 60mg, barely enough to sustain life.
Two, that interest would impact corporate profits adversely.
Three: same
Dr. Stephanie Seneff at MIT in MA, and the book Fateful Harvest offer a lot of clues about what’s happening and why. I’ve had so many of the same questions, ie what is at the root of this issue of increasing malnourishment? We’ve been trying to consume only organic for years, only to learn recently that the fertilizers used in such farming are too oft waste products from chemical industry blended and called “All natural” . And so the rabbit hole continues. Thank you again for all your great insights and articles Dr. Kmiec! Your work is very valuable and vitally important in these days.
August 31, 2017 @ 10:31 am
I have heart disease and take a diuretic twice daily. How much thiamine should I be taking?