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🏴☠️Join the Knowledge Pirates membership / @studio_pirates ☠ Curious? Just subscribe and like and we'll take care of the looting! 🦜 Nowadays, nutrition has advanced so much that you can supplement essential nutrients with just a few nutritional supplements, but that wasn't the case in the past. Sometimes due to the natural environment, sometimes due to food culture, sometimes due to genes, and sometimes due to ignorance and prejudice, people often suffered from chronic diseases because they couldn't eat what they should or ate what they shouldn't. However, there was a case where this nutritional deficiency worsened due to industrialization in the modern era. It was Japan. What's more, it's mysterious that this phenomenon was more severe in wealthy cities and in the military... The main character is beriberi, once called the second greatest disease that ruined Japan. Well, if you eat well and live well, shouldn't you not get sick anymore? A disease that plagued modern Japan and the Japanese military! Let's learn about beriberi now. #beriberi #vitamins #Japanesemilitary