What are vitamins, really? I mean molecularly, physically, how do they differ, who discovered they exist and how, etc.
In: Biology
In a nutshell, vitamins are just things that your body needs, that it can’t produce on its own, its only source is the food you eat.
Not eating foods with those vitamins can cause many health problems. The classic example is sailors who got scurvy because they didn’t have any foods with vitamin C for months at a time.
Most people who aren’t pregnant, who get a little bit of sunlight, eat a balanced diet and don’t have any health conditions don’t need to take any vitamin supplements. Getting “extra” vitamins when you weren’t previously deficient doesn’t provide any benefit.
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