Vitamins And Their Role In Our Lives

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Article Title: Vitamins And Their Role In Our Lives

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Vitamins, like minerals, are an essential part of the function

and health of the body system. While many vitamins serve

individual purposes, the more common way for vitamins to

function properly is as cofactors to or in partnership with

other vitamins, minerals, nutrients and other substances in the

body such as enzymes. Some of the most important processes in

the body are the result of Vitamins partnering with each other

to achieve certain affects, processes or functions.

Two of the most essential and most powerful vitamin

partnerships are the group of eight vitamins that make up the

nutritional powerhouse that is collectively known as the

Vitamin B complex and the group of three vitamins that are

known as the antioxidant vitamins. In addition to these, there

are varieties of other combinations of vitamins that serve

essential purposes within the body thus preserving health and

enhancing function.

The vitamins that make up the Vitamin B complex include Vitamin

B1 (Thiamin), Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), Vitamin B3 (Niacin),

Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid), Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine), Vitamin

B9 (Folic Acid or simply Folate), Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) and

Biotin (Vitamin H).

The degree to which the Vitamin B complex affects bodily

function and health, as well as the function and health of the

mind in terms of cognitive processes and emotional balance and

stability is nothing but amazing. The Vitamin B complex is at

work in and is essential to every major system of the body and

is a part of almost every important function and process.

The group of vitamins that is known as the antioxidant group is

made up of Vitamin C, Vitamin E and Vitamin A. Each of these

vitamins are powerful agents on their own, serving individual

essential purposes in the body. But they are their most

powerful and useful when they combine their strengths thus

serving as antioxidants. They function to rid the body of the

cell and tissue damaging free radicals that have been

associated with a variety of degenerative processes and

diseases including the effects of the basic aging process and

the declining abilities of the mind. Some studies have

suggested connections between free radicals and such

infirmities as heart disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Free radicals are destabilized molecules, created when a

weakened molecule splits and leaves the free radical without

one of the electrons it needs. Weakened molecules can result

from the body's natural metabolic processes as well as from

environmental contaminants such as pollution. The free radicals

attack other molecules in the effort to take the electron that

it is missing. This damages the attacked molecule, making it a

free radical too. When enough free radicals emerge in a cell,

it can cause cellular damage, which, as more free radicals

continue to be produces, can cause tissue damage. Antioxidants

bring these free radicals under control by giving them the

electron that they need, bringing to an end their aggressive

behavior against other molecules. Because of this, antioxidants

are sometimes even coined as the Fountain of Youth of the New

Age.

Nutritional supplements can ensure that your body has enough of

the nutrients it needs to support these important partnerships.

Attention to nutrition is one of the most important things you

can do for the overall health of mind and body.

About The Author: Charlene J. Nuble 2005. For up to date links

and information about Vitamins, please go to:

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information on all health related topics, go to:

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