It’s just dawned on me that after a life of being told to include enough vitamins in my diet that I haven’t a scooby what vitamins actually do. Can someone please why its important to have enough vitamins?
In: Biology
Every vitamin does something completely different but I’ll try to be as broad as possible.
Organic molecules are molecules that have a backbone of carbon chains, and our body is full of them. Some of them are extremely common in our body such as triglyceride which is the molecule that makes up most of our body fat. However, there are also some organic molecules that exist in extremely minute amounts in our body but are extremely crucial ingredients in our bodily functions. We call these molecules vitamins. And since this definition can encompass so many different kinds of molecules, asking what they do in general is a difficult question to answer. Vitamin B12 for instance is involved in the production of DNA and amino acids (the stuff that makes up proteins) and a deficiency can lead to a reduction in red blood cells.
The key thing to note about vitamins though is that they work best when there are a very specific amount of them in your body, and this amount is always is very very small. Which is why you have to take them in specific dosages at regular intervals like medicine. Too much of a certain vitamin can lead to health problems in the same way that too little of one can.
I hope that helps.
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