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Vitamins (Water Soluble (B12 (name: cobalamin, co-enzyme for energy to…
Vitamins
Water Soluble
B12
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co-enzyme for energy to metabolism and stored in the liver,
deficiency: lack on energy, anemia, nerve damage (seniors!!!)
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population: seniors, gastric bypass patients, and vegans
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C
name: ascorbic acid, ascorbate
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B2
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foods: dairy, but it is light sensitive none in glass milk bottles
Folate
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function: dividing cells, blood, immune cell replacement, cancers
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population at risk: cancer patients should not take folate, this is helping your cancer
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B3
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co-enzyme for mitochondria maintenance,
Functions: pushes for high HDL: LDL rations this is good! It lowers total cholesterol in the arteries. This vitamin is as good as Statins. some negative effects are increase blood glucose levels and it is a capillary dilator
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Fat Soluble
E
Deficiency: cells are not protected, so they are very fragile, especially blood cells. This could be a reason why someone has anemia
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overdose: internal bleeding, there are no overdose from foods
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foods: fresh oily fatty foods, temperature sensitive (fried foods have no vitamin E) ex: nuts, olives, avocados.
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D
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deficiency: Rickets for children, Osteomlacia for adults, osteoporosis
population at risk: dark complexion people in northern climates, and women over fifty,
overdose: cannot overdose from processors (d2, d3) or from foods. but you can overdose from calcitriol
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Foods: fatty animal foods, especially fish!
names: D2, D3, calcidoil, calcitriol
A
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Deficiency: vision lost degradation night blindness, and it can get worse; Keratinize disease: scaly, dry reptile skin; GI track malfunctions.
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names: retinol, retinal, retinotic acid
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foods: yellow, orange, and red looking veggies, legumes, carrots, tomatoes red and yellow peppers.
K
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beneficial bacterial in colon, it makes it for us
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foods: fermented, komucha tea, sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt; there are shots also
Functions (2)
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antioxidants: Oxygen is necessary but also damaging to the body frenemy. they counteract the oxidatative damage.
Background
Micro-nutrients : they don't contribute energy or build up the body. they have a catalytic function. The two major micro nutrients are fat and water soluble vitamins.