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Vitamins

At the last count the human body contained 60 trillion cells (give or take a few million).

 

Vitamins are chemical compounds needed for health, normal metabolism, growth, your physical well being.

 

Casimir Funk Feb23rd 1884~Jan 19th 1967 the Polish biochemist gave us the word ‘vitamin’ (vitamine, vital, essential to organic life) when discovering the element in rice husks that countered beriberi (a vitamin deficiency disease in which the body does not have enough thiamine vitamin B1).

Funk believed that the element belonged to a group of chemicals known as amines.

 

Some form an essential part of enzymes, others an essential part of hormones.

 

Vitamins are a medicine, certain doses will cause a change in the body’s physiology or internal anatomy of some people.

 

Be aware!

Do not self prescribe, always obtain advice from your clinician, especially if you are suffering a serious illness.

Time lost consulting and following advice given by an alternative therapist could cost you your life. Some alternative treatments may mask symptoms.

Vitamins interact with other vitamins, medicines, herbs and minerals.

Ingestion of any substance may also cause side effects or adverse effects.

Vitamins do not provide energy or help maintain a healthy body without other nutrients.

Metabolism:

The chemical and physical processes continuously going on in living organisms. Not all living organisms have metabolisms that "process continuously". Some have fast ones, others slow.

The metabolic rate varies from one person to another and is affected by sex, age, and amount of lean body mass (muscle).

Many vitamins and minerals are involved in the metabolic processes in the body, however, once the required amount is obtained, the excess is either eliminated or stored in body tissues.

Excessive amounts of vitamins and minerals will create serious health problems.

 

 

 

 

Vitamin A  ~ Beta Carotene & Retinol

Vitamin B1 ~ Thiamine ~ Thiamin

Vitamin B2 ~ Riboflavin

Vitamin B3 ~ Niacin

Vitamin B5 ~ Panothic Acid

Vitamin B6 ~ Pyridoxine

Vitamin B9 ~ Folocin ~ Folic Acid

Vitamin B12 ~ Cyanocobamin ~ Cobalamin

Vitamin C ~ Ascorbic Acid

Vitamin D3 ~ Cholecalciferol

Vitamin E ~ Alpha Tocopherol

Vitamin H ~ Biotin

Vitamin K ~ Phylloquinone

 

Associated with vitamins

Choline

Inosital

PABA ~ Para - aminobenzoic Acid

 

 

 

Enzymes:

Chemical molecules that catalyse or facilitate the completion of chemical reactions.

 

Hormones:

Chemical substances that promote and protect body health and reproduction.

 

Medicine:

The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease.

Any drug or preparation used for the treatment or prevention of disease.

 

Amine: an organic compound containing nitrogen.

 

Interaction:

Interactions may affect absorption, elimination, assimilation of the substance they are interacting with.

Some interaction is beneficial and others may be harmful.

 

Side effects:

Symptoms you may experience when ingesting or injecting any substance, foodstuffs, supplements or medicines. They are effects on the body other than the desired effect for which they are taken.

 

Adverse effect:

Are effects that may be hazardous, causing problems that outweigh any potential benefit.

 

 

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