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  • Vitamin B6 Benefits, Sources and Deficiency
    Vitamin B6 is one of the eight water-soluble B vitamins. It was originally isolated in the mid-1930. Vitamin B6 has the maximum number of chemical structures - all begin with the letters "pyr," and include pyridoxine (PN), pyridoxal (PL), pyridoxamine (PM), pyridoxine phosphate (PNP), pyridoxal phosphate (PLP), and pyridoxamine phosphate (PMP). PLP is the most active coenzyme form, and has the maximum importance in human metabolism
  • Benefits of Vitamin B5, Sources and Deficiency
    Vitamin B5 is also known as pantothenic acid. Its name is derived from the Greek word pantos meaning "from everywhere," as small quantities of pantothenic acid are found in nearly every food.
    In its functional form, vitamin B5 gets combined with another small, sulfur-containing molecule to form coenzyme A (or CoA). This conversion allows vitamin B5 to participate in a wide variety of chemical and organic reactions. Coenzyme A is needed to carry out various metabolic functions, and for the generation of energy in the form of ATP from fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
  • Vitamin B2 Benefits, Deficiency, Sources and Storage
    Vitamin B2, also called riboflavin, is a water-soluble B vitamin. Vitamin B2 was first noticed in 1879 as a green pigment found in milk. It is not stored in the human body for any period, and it is therefore important to include a regular dietary source of this vitamin.
  • Benefits of Vitamin B1, Deficiency and Sources
    Vitamin B1, also known as thiamin, gives energy to our body by converting carbohydrates (starches) into energy. It also helps keep the mucous membranes healthy, and is very essential for the proper functioning of the nervous system, cardiovascular and muscular system.
    It is a water-soluble vitamin, and thus the body needs a continuous supply of the vitamin from food. Very little of this vitamin is stored in the body, and depletion of this vitamin can happen within 14 days.
  • Vitamin B Complex Benefits, Sources and Deficiency
    Vitamin B complex is a group of 12 related water-soluble substances. The eight water-soluble vitamins including thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pantothenic acid (B5), biotin (B7), pyridoxine (B6), folic acid (B9), and cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12).
    These eight are considered the essential vitamins because they need to be definitely included in the diet. Four are not essential because the body can synthesize them. The four unnumbered components of the B complex that can be synthesized by the body are choline, inositol, PABA, and lipoic acid.
  • Benefits of Vitamin D, Sources and Deficiency
    Vitamin D or calciferol, is a fat-soluble vitamin. It is mostly made in the human body after exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun. The liver and kidney help convert vitamin D to its active hormone form.
    Benefits of Vitamin D?
    « Vitamin D aids in the absorption of calcium, helping to form and maintain strong bones. Vitamin D deficiency can make bones thin, brittle, soft and easily prone to fractures. Without sufficient vitamin D, our body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless.
    « Vitamin D acts like a hormone, thus regulating the absorption of calcium and phosphorus from the intestine.
  • Benefits of Vitamin C, Sources and Deficiency
    Vitamin C is a water-soluble, antioxidant vitamin. It is important for the formation of collagen - a protein that gives structure to bones, cartilage, muscle, and blood vessels. Vitamin C also aids in the absorption of iron, and helps maintain capillaries, bones, and teeth.
  • Benefits Of Vitamin A, Sources and Deficiency
    Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin and plays an important role in vision, development and maintenance of healthy skin, hair, mucous membranes; immune functions; and reproduction.
    Vitamin A is also called retinol. It may be found in any of these forms:
    · retinol - the animal form of vitamin A
    · other retinoids - retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and related compounds
    · carotenoids - organic pigments that are naturally occurring in plants.
  • Vitamin Benefits, Sources and Deficiency
    Vitamins are organic substances necessary in very small amounts to direct different processes within living cells. Even though vitamins offer no energy benefits to the body directly, they do help set free the energy stored in carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Thus, most vitamins help chemical reactions to take place. The human body does not produce most of the vitamins it requires and must obtain them from foods.

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