Talk:Benfotiamine

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The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

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Solubility[edit]

Can anyone confirm Benfotiamine's solubility? The article lists it as lipophilic (fat soluble), yet the solubility chart at the bottom of the page lists it as water soluble. Other online articles also indicate that it is fat soluble. As far as I know, these are mutually exclusive categories, but I could be wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.135.62.123 (talk) 20:06, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Per my understanding, benfotiamine is a special fat-soluble form of B1. B1 is typically only water soluble. Note that a substance can also be fat and water soluble, although there is no indication that benfotiamine is such a substance. --IO Device (talk) 18:42, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

benfotiamine is a fat soluble form of thiamine. B1 is tradiitonally considered water soluble because most B1 is in the thiamine form. So, technically your articles are correct. But the one that labels B1 as water soluble is talking about regular thiamine. The ones calling it fat soluble are referring to benfotiamine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.203.61.192 (talk) 22:12, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Milgamma[edit]

I have Wörwag Pharma produced milgamma and it contains B6 vitamin. How can it be another name for the Benfotiamine (B1)? --85.253.98.60 (talk) 18:32, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

there are various combination drugs as the article now describes. all of them contain benfo, per the refs. Jytdog (talk) 23:26, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alzheimer & Benfotiamine[edit]

As of October 2018, this study published in 2016 is still the most recent human study about taking oral Benfotiamine for a long time. 300mg/day benfotiamine given to Alzheimer patients for 18 months. No other doses were tested so it is impossible to know the optimal dose yet. Impressive benefits, but only 5 humans participated in the study! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27696179

Can someone say anything about impact factor or other reliability score of the journal where the research was pusblished? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=%22Neurosci+Bull%22[Title+Abbreviation]

And reliability of the authors? Authors were all Chinese people.

There are some interesting animal studies about Benfotiamine & Type 2 diabetes etc, one can read them at Pubmed website. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Benfotiamine

--ee1518 (talk) 10:30, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]