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
Enzymes are types of proteins that help with different chemical reaction and processes in our body. Some enzymes need “certain organic molecules” to be present or else they will not fulfill their basic functions and these molecules are called coenzymes. Essentially, vitamins can be enzymes, coenzymes, and other organic molecules our body uses to maintain normal/favorable conditions,
Edit: they are needed in fairly low quantities and most of them need to be acquired through diet, our bodies can only make a couple by itself
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