B Vitamin Complex

By Dean Brooks

Vitamin B is actually no single vitamin but a container of several vitamins.

The B1 Vitamin

B1 Vitamin is a main component of the vitamin B supplement, vitamin B1 and is also known as thiamin or thiamine. This is necessary for our body to produce enzymes, as well as break down carbohydrates. Like the other vitamins in a vitamin B supplement, B1 is also helpful for reducing stress and boost the immune system, making it stronger in fighting infections. The B1 deficiency may cause the disease known as Beri-beri, which leads to the tingling and swelling of hands and feet, nystagmus (flicking eye movements) and breathing problems due to the fluid in lungs. (more…)

Antioxidant Vitamins

By R. Drysdale

Scientific research in recent years has identified several antioxidant vitamins - an added bonus for nutrients already known to be essential to good health, and a partial explanation for how they interact with other molecules in the body to produce beneficial effects. A textbook discussion of Vitamin A 15 years ago would have described the nutrient’s role in vision, health of skin and other body linings, bone growth, cancer prevention, and immunity. (more…)

Vitamin B12 - The Nervous System, Anaemia, Learn More

Vitamin B12 is water-soluble,  a vitamin that has a vital role in the production of red blood cells, correct functioning of the nervous system, replication of DNA, controling of homocysteine levels when combined with folic acid and vitamin B6 and production of a mood-elevating substance S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Strictly speaking, vitamin B12 is not a single compound; rather it is a collective term referring to a class of cobalt compounds, the principal ones among them being cyanocobalamin, hydroxocobalamin, methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin. For that reason, sometimes the term cobalamin is used to refer to vitamin B12.

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