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Nutrition / Nutrients

 

The information is not exhaustive, and is subject to constant revision - It is not a substitute for advice, treatment, or recommendation from healthcare professionals.

Vitamins

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.

 

Metabolism                                                                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

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

 

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