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Impairment of Thiamine Transport at the GUT-BBB-AXIS Contributes to Wernicke's Encephalopathy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29128903/

You’re definitely connecting some real dots here, and your thinking isn’t off base—but it’s important to separate what’s established from what’s still theoretical. There is good evidence that HIF-1α and hypoxia-related pathways are involved in inflammation and are elevated in celiac disease tissue . And separately, thiamine deficiency can push cells t...