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Vitamins | Therapeutic uses |
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Vitamin A | Maintain healthy skin, mucus membrane and vision, body growth and development, anticancer, skin disorder, and antioxidant |
Vitamin D | Formation of teeth and bones (which helps the body to absorb and use calcium) |
Vitamin E | Boost the immune system, antioxidant (formation of nerve tissue, blood cells, muscles, and lungs) |
Vitamin K | Clotting of blood |
H2O (soluble vitamins & acids) |
Vitamin C | Maintain good skin, gums, bones, & teeth, wound healing & reduce cold & cough, antioxidant |
Vitamin B1 | Essential in neurological functions and convert food into energy |
Vitamin B2 | Energy production, maintain healthy skin, eyes, & nerve |
Vitamin B3 | Convert food into energy and maintain brain function |
Vitamin B6 | Produce proteins and convert protein into energy |
Vitamin B12 | Produce the DNA of cells, form red blood cells, maintain CNS and amino acid synthesize, metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates |
Folic acid | Essential for preventing birth defects, formation of RBC (“red blood cell”), produce DNA of cells, heart disease protector |
Pantothenic acid | Cholesterol, fatty acids & steroid synthesis, acetylcholine intraneuronal synthesis |
Vitamin-like compounds |
Biotin | Used in different biotransformation processes |
L-Carnitine | Formation of certain organic acid excretion and phosphorylation, fatty acid oxidation |
Choline | Lipotropic agent; these are used for treatment of fatty liver and interrupted fat metabolism |
Vitamin F | Synthesis of prostaglandins, leukotrienes & different hydroxyl fatty acids, membrane development |
Inositol lipotropic agents | Formation & movement of potassium & sodium, transportation of amino acid |
Taurine | Conjugation of bile acid, CNS neuromodulation, retinal photoreceptor activity, antioxidant activity in WBC, platelet aggregation, cardiac contractility, sperm growth & motility, insulin growth & development activity |
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