Benfotiamine: Thiamin is an organic compound known better as, Vitamin B1 or aneurine. Benfotiamine is a derivetive of thiamine.

Thiamin is involved in our body's functions as in the nervous sytems and in the functioning of our muscles, specifically in the transfer in and out of the muscle and nerve cells, bathing them in electrolytes along with many other complex enzymes and metabolizing  processes in our complex structure of the human body.

Thiamin is usually not stored in the body for longer than a couple of weeks.  To keep a safe store of thiamin, we eat beef, legumes, milk oats, grains, pork and various other grains and flour.  Most products will  state, when reading the label : "fortified with thiamin", as it is lost readily in the refinement process.

In the last few years, scientist have have found a new approach to diabetes by blocking of the three major pathways in our vessels, responsible for the blood vessel damage ( due to the high sugar content bathing the blood cells).

These findings of Benfotiamine, ( a longer lasting form of thiamine) can reduce the damage caused in these particular vessels; mainly the  vessels that deliver blood to the eyes and the vessels to the kidneys. (These vessels cannot produce their own thiamin necessary for their protection.The addition of Benfotiamine to the daily diet is the important ingredient that boost the thiamine for this protection.

The function of benfotiamine is a lot more complicated in it's functions of protection, but this is simply put for better  understanding. ( a fat-soluble thiamine derivative.)

Adverse side effects: Dr. Brownlee ( a RESEARCHER) cautions people with diabetes against taking thiamine supplements, however, noting that there is no evidence that thiamine can activate transketolase sufficiently to prevent complications of diabetes. “Benfotiamine has been used extensively in Germany for many years, and to my knowledge there are no reported side effects.”