We have vitamin b6 and b12 but I’ve never seen others. I’ve seen vitamin A but never a number with it. How did we get here? Similarly, why aren’t other often grouped supplement ingredients labeled as vitamins? Thinking of Omegas, fish oil, niacin etc. did we run out of letters? Is there a characteristic needed to be called vitamin?
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To confuse people. Theres no such thing as a vitamin. Vitamin Z, what is that? Zinc? Its not a vitamin, its just Zinc. Vitamin K? No, its just potassium. Supposedly if your kidneys are functioning correctly there should be a trace amount of gold in your system. Vitamin G? Doctors are able to measure what elements and compounds should be in your blood. Vitamins are a marketing thing.
Also, I get the vital mineral part of it. I’m not saying these aren’t vital. But vitamin has sort have taken on its own meaning as something you need to supplement.
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