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
Vitamins are compounds the body needs, but don’t become us, or give us energy.
For example, you eat some bread. A lot of the carbohydrates in the bread eventually get broken down into sugars which get turned into energy. The plant proteins in the bread get turned into our own proteins and become part of our body.
The processes that keep us alive are very complicated chemical processes, and vitamins are essential components that help us do that chemistry. We need to eat them because either our body can’t make them itself, or is bad at making them.
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