Benfotiamine is safe but has not yet been proven effective. A healthy diet, regular exercise and keeping an active brain remain the best ways of reducing dementia risk. DEAR DR.

The trial will study benfotiamine, a laboratory-made form of thiamine, also known as vitamin B1, as a treatment to slow Alzheimer’s disease.

Dietary thiamine (vitamin B1) intake was linked with cognition in older adults, a longitudinal analysis in China suggested. Over a median follow-up of 5.9 years, cognitive decline risk was minimal ...

Benfotiamine is a synthetic drug which can increase blood thiamine up to 100 times the normal level. These levels of blood thiamine cannot be achieved by taking thiamine alone. The brain tissue in ...

Benfotiamine, a synthetic S-acyl thiamine derivative, has different mechanisms of action and a different pharmacological profile than lipid-soluble thiamine disulfide derivatives.

Benfotiamine is a synthetic derivative of thiamine (vitamin B1) and has been available for more than a decade in Germany.

In the February 18 Nature Medicine, Hans-Peter Hammes and colleagues from School of Clinical Medicine, Mannheim, Germany, show that benfotiamine — a lipid-soluble thiamine derivative — blocks the ...

Preliminary studies with standard thiamine boosted transketolase’s activity by only 20%. Benfotiamine, a fat-soluble thiamine derivative, was more potent.

A: The compound is benfotiamine, a synthetic form of thiamine (vitamin B-1). It has been used in Germany to treat peripheral neuropathy due to diabetes. Our caller, a physician, says the dose is ...

Researchers from Royal Children's Hospital, the University of Melbourne and affiliated organizations published data from a study that aimed to investigate the potential of benfotiamine, which is a ...