MultiVitamins Supplements

What are vitamins?

Vitamins are naturally occurring compounds present in most foods. They are essential in small quantities for all body functions including growth, repair of tissues, and the maintenance health. Our bodies use vitamins every day during the normal biochemical processes that maintain life.Vitamins help release energy from our food, and support growth, healing, and repair. An ongoing shortage of vitamins will lead to failed health, weakness, susceptibility to disease, and may ultimately result in death. Vitamins have no caloric value, and are not sources of energy. However, vitamins do help your body use or release energy present in food.

Vitamins cannot be replaced by any other food components.

There are thirteen vitamins: A, C, D, E, K and eight in the B group. The "B complex" vitamins are thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pantothenic acid (B5), pyridoxine (B6), cyanocobalamin (B12), niacin (B3), folic acid (folacin, folate) and biotin (H).

Vitamins are divided into two groups: water-soluble and fat-soluble.

Water-soluble vitamins

Water-soluble vitamins (Vitamin C and B-complex) dissolve in water. They are easily taken up and released by body tissues. Because the body cannot store water-soluble vitamins, a daily supply is necessary. Vitamin B-12 is an exception to this rule: if intake has been adequate, the liver maintains adequate stores for several months.

Fat-soluble vitamins

Fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) dissolve in dietary and body fat. They are absorbed from food along with fat in the food we eat. Excess fat-soluble vitamins may be stored in the liver and body fat, so several weeks' supply may be consumed in a single dose or meal.

Can our body make the vitamins?

Vitamin K is produced in the necessary amount by the friendly bacteria (microflora) which live in the adult gut. Newborn infants, however, have an immature gut and do not have this normal bacteria. Therefore, they require additional vitamin K until the bacteria become established. Vitamin D and niacin can also be made in our bodies. However, neither are made in the amounts required for health. For this reason, these vitamins must be obtained from food or supplements.

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