mostlylurking
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Well, yeah. I've got heavy metal poisoning; mercury and lead. I couldn't tolerate the prescribed 40 iv chelation treatments for the lead poisoning in 2014; about halfway through I was stricken with rheumatoid arthritis and had to quit. From researching, I've learned that physicians who plan to chelate a person should ALWAYS test their thiamine status first as chelating a thiamine deficient person can kill them. Lead poisoning is known to tie up all the available thiamine which causes the person to need a higher amount. Thiamine itself also chelates lead. The symptoms of thiamine deficiency and lead poisoning are pretty much identical.If u need high dose b1 all the time I guess there might be other things go wrong in your body?
If you are thiamine deficient or if you have a thiamine functional blockage you will have some pretty severe symptoms, including leaky gut and a compromised blood brain barrier. Thiamine is needed for pretty much all bodily functions because without it you can't make ATP.
The rheumatoid arthritis resolved itself several years ago with thyroid and thiamine supplementation. I've had a problem with thiamine deficiency for over 50 years. I'm a lot healthier on the high dose thiamine hcl than without it.