Spring has officially sprung and before we know it summer will soon be upon us. Many people are looking forward to getting outside and being more active, but with the warm, humid temperatures comes one of life’s most annoying little creatures; mosquitoes.
The flying insects are all but impossible to avoid and just a few of them buzzing around your head is enough to drive anyone crazy. The fact that they’re super annoying is the last thing you should be worried about because as it turns out, their bite is actually a lot worse than their buzz. According to the World Health Organization, every year mosquito bites are responsible for more than a million deaths, making them the number one most deadliest animal on the planet.
Zika is the latest international health threat to emerge that is directly related to mosquitoes and it’s a story that’s all too familiar. The insects are capable of spreading many different kinds of diseases, some of which include malaria, yellow fever, chikungunya, West Nile Virus, dengue fever, and encephalitis. The only way to truly avoid contracting a mosquito borne illness is to completely avoid them all together, yet we all know that’s basically impossible to do.
Because they are simply unavoidable, the next logical step is to take precautions that limit your exposure to them and thus lessen the amount of bites. To repel the pests, most people use bug sprays and insect repellents that often contain DEET, a powerful chemical that can produce some nasty, super serious side effects. Instead of spraying toxic chemicals on your skin try this natural alternative approach involving vitamin B1. It’s a much safer way to avoid attracting mosquitoes and it may be exactly what you need.
Commonly called thiamine, people have been using vitamin B1 for years to naturally repel mosquitoes. Many claim that by taking a daily dose of vitamin B1 they’ve been able to drastically reduce the overall average amount of mosquito bites they suffer from. How does it work? No one is completely sure, but it’s believed that thiamine alters how sweat smells. It changes body odor in such a way that it makes a person unattractive to mosquitoes, who pick up on the change in body odor and fly the other way. What makes an individual so attractive to a mosquito in the first place is scent, so the more appealing you smell the more bites you’ll likely get. And since mosquitoes have crazy powerful scent receptors in their antennae that give them the ability to easily sniff out any human in a 100-foot range, there’s no avoiding them.
However, if you take thiamine and change how you smell there’s a much better chance you’ll end up smelling unattractive and they won’t bother you! It’s recommended that people take 25-50 milligrams three times a day, but you can also get that much through your diet. Foods like beans, kale, broccoli, sunflower seeds, and cauliflower contain naturally high levels of B1.
In the video that follows one man covers his personal experience and the results he found after testing out thiamine to repel mosquitoes. Long story short, he was quite surprised to find that the vitamin supplements worked well in his case. Make sure to check it out because he goes over and thoroughly explains all of the information you need and the basics surrounding the use of B1.
Whether thiamine’s effects are real or not, the fact remains that people all over the world swear by it and take it daily to keep mosquitoes at bay. It can’t hurt because taking B1 is safe and any excess in the body simply gets passed through in urine. Unless you try it, you’ll never know if it works!
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