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Beriberi (Vitamin B1 Deficiency)
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Also known as: thiamine deficiency · vitamin B1 deficiency · beriberi disease · polyneuropathy due to B1 deficiency · Wernicke encephalopathy · wet beriberi · dry beriberi · heart failure due to vitamin deficiency
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Your nervous system is losing its conductivity. Your muscles grow weak, your legs no longer carry you reliably, your heart falls out of rhythm. Beriberi is a disease that arises from a deficiency of vitamin B1 — thiamine. It attacks the nervous system and the cardiovascular system, and it occurs most often where people live under extreme external conditions: in poverty, in malnutrition, in circumstances that leave almost no room to maneuver.
Medically, the explanation is clear: too little thiamine in the diet. But the psychosomatic perspective asks further: Why does a body lose its ability to conduct impulses? Why do strength and rhythm fade at the same time? And why does this disease so often affect entire population groups living in similar circumstances?
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