Vitamins : Knowing more about Vitamins

Article by Jay Solo

Vitamins are organic compounds that are needed as nutrients by any organism in minute amount. Vitamins cannot be synthesized or created in adequate amounts by any organism. Most of the time, these compounds can be obtained from diet. Examples of vitamins that most people know are the ascorbic acid or popularly known as Vitamin C, biotin and Vitamin D. These examples are needed by any human and it comes from their diet in certain circumstances. Presently, there are only 13 Vitamins present and recognized.

Anyone can classify Vitamins though the use of their chemical and biological activity and not based on their structure. Every vitamin refers to number of compound called vitamer, which shows the biological activity of that particular vitamin. These chemicals are organized under alphabetized vitamin generic descriptor like that of Vitamin A. Vitamin A has the following chemicals: retinol, retinal and carotenoids. Vitamers, on the other hand, are convertible to its active form of the vitamin.

Vitamins are very diverse when it comes to its biochemical functions. For example, Vitamin D has functionality like that of hormones regulating mineral metabolism. Some forms of Vitamin A acts as cell and tissue differentiation and growth regulators. Vitamin E serves as antioxidants while the family of Vitamin B complex acts as the precursor for the so-called enzyme cofactors helping enzymes does their works as the metabolism catalyst. There are also several other vitamins that have particular function in the body.

Vitamins, nowadays, are produced commercially and they became commodity chemicals. Vitamins also became widely available for everyone with some that are very expensive yet effective and some as inexpensive semi-synthetic as well as synthetic-source of the multivitamin dietary supplements. More and more are taking up vitamins to promote healthy living since it is a fact that some of the essential nutrients are only found in the vitamins.

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