I imagine that much of the B1 (i.e., Thiamine) is metabolized by your body and excreted through your kidneys*, and thus wasted. Wouldn't just rubbing 100 mg of B1 directly onto your skin have the same or similar effect? Or is it perhaps the metabolites that are responsible for the mosquito-repellent effect?
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*Thiamine and its acid metabolites (2-methyl-4-amino-5-pyrimidine carboxylic acid, 4-methyl-thiazole-5-acetic acid, and thiamine acetic acid) are excreted principally in the urine. -Wikipedia
“I discovered that if I take a 100mg B1 tablet daily, since my body only uses a fraction of the dose, the balance comes out on my skin in my sweat and the mosquitos leave me alone.
I imagine that much of the B1 (i.e., Thiamine) is metabolized by your body and excreted through your kidneys*, and thus wasted. Wouldn’t just rubbing 100 mg of B1 directly onto your skin have the same or similar effect? Or is it perhaps the metabolites that are responsible for the mosquito-repellent effect?”
Rubbing B1 all over your body doesn’t seem like it could be easily done.
Your body only uses 1.5-2mg of the 100mg tablet. The rest goes into urine and sweat. I don’t know how much is in the sweat, but the skeeters leave me alone.
“I discovered that if I take a 100mg B1 tablet daily, since my body only uses a fraction of the dose, the balance comes out on my skin in my sweat and the mosquitos leave me alone.
I imagine that much of the B1 (i.e., Thiamine) is metabolized by your body and excreted through your kidneys*, and thus wasted. Wouldn’t just rubbing 100 mg of B1 directly onto your skin have the same or similar effect? Or is it perhaps the metabolites that are responsible for the mosquito-repellent effect?”
Rubbing B1 all over your body doesn’t seem like it could be easily done.
Your body only uses 1.5-2mg of the 100mg tablet. The rest goes into urine and sweat. I don’t know how much is in the sweat, but the skeeters leave me alone.