Vitamins

Getting into Vitamins
Earl Mindell's New Vitamin Bible : 25th Anniversary Edition
by Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
My professional education was strictly establishment when it came to vitamins. My courses in pharmacology, biochemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, and public health hardly dealt with vitamins at all - except in relation to deficiency diseases.

Vitamin B12 : Health Benefits
by MedlinePlus
Vitamin B12 is an essential water soluble vitamin that is commonly found in a variety of foods such as fish, shellfish, meats, and dairy products. Vitamin B12 is frequently used in combination with other B vitamins in a vitamin B complex formulation.

Vitamin K
by MedlinePlus
Forms of vitamin K: The name Vitamin K refers to a group of chemically similar fat-soluble compounds called naphthoquinones. Vitamin K1 (phytonadione) is the natural form of vitamin K, which is found in plants, and provides the primary source of vitamin K

Vitamin C : Uses and Health Benefits
by MedlinePlus
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble vitamin which is necessary in the body to form collagen in bones, cartilage, muscle, and blood vessels, and aids in the absorption of iron. Dietary sources of vitamin C include fruits and vegetables

Vitamin D : Health Benefits
by MedlinePlus
Vitamin D is found in numerous dietary sources such as fish, eggs, fortified milk, and cod liver oil. The sun is also a significant contributor to our daily production of vitamin D, and as little as 10 minutes of exposure is thought to be enough to preven

Understanding Vitamins
The Doctor's Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals
by Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
Vitamins: A Historical Perspective. Nutrition, or the lack of it, has shaped the world. The pages of history record human suffering, disease, and the disability occasioned by malnourishment through the millennia.

Arginine
The Arginine Solution: The First Guide to America's New Cardio-Enhancing Supplement
by Robert Fried, Ph.D., Woodson C. Merrell, M.D., James Thornton
If you're now reading these words, chances are you take your own health, and that of your loved ones, very much to heart. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates called health the greatest of human blessings, a sentiment that has been echoed by poets

Vitamin E : Uses and Health Benefits
by MedlinePlus
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin with antioxidant properties. Forms of vitamin E: Vitamin E exists in eight different forms (isomers): alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocopherol; and alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocotrienol.

Pantothenic Cacid (Vitamin-B5), Dexpanthenol : Health Benefits
by MedlinePlus
Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) is essential to all life, and is a component of coenzyme A (CoA), a molecule which is necessary for numerous vital chemical reactions to occur in cells. Pantothenic acid is essential to the metabolism of carbohydrates

Thiamin, Vitamin B1
by MedlinePlus
Thiamin (also spelled 'thiamine') is a water-soluble B-complex vitamin, previously known as vitamin B1 or aneurine. Thiamin was isolated and characterized in the 1920s, and thus was one of the first organic compounds to be recognized as a vitamin.

Introduction
Corrine T. Netzer's Big Book of Miracle Cures
by Corinne T. Netzer
Almost everyone would like to be healthier and take steps to prevent serious diseases such as cancer, heart failure, arthritis. The question is how? We live in a world where there are many choices but few concrete answers.

Vitamin B6
by MedlinePlus
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is required for the synthesis of the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine, and for myelin formation. Pyridoxine deficiency in adults principally affects the peripheral nerves, skin, mucous membranes, and the hematopoietic

The Treatment of Choice
Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution : Nature's Answer to Drugs
by Robert C. Atkins, M.D.
Have you ever read or received advertisements proclaiming 'Breakthrough!!! Natural treatments your doctor won't tell you about! Safer revolutionary treatment for heart disease, cancer, fatigue or what-have-you'?

Riboflavin (vitamin B2) : Health Benefits
by MedlinePlus
Riboflavin is a water-soluble vitamin which is involved in vital metabolic processes in the body, and is necessary for normal cell function, growth, and energy production. Small amounts of riboflavin are present in most animal and plant tissues.

Niacin (Vitamin-B3), Niacinamide
by MedlinePlus
Vitamin B-3 is made up of niacin (nicotinic acid) and its amide, niacinamide, and can be found in many foods, including yeast, meat, fish, milk, eggs, green vegetables, and cereal grains. Dietary tryptophan is also converted to niacin in the body.

Feeding Baby : Formula Choices, Vitamins
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The most common sources of protein in infants formulas are either cow's milk or soybeans. 'For term infants, soy formulas appear to be as nutritionally sound as milk-based formulas, and their use is unlikely to expose infants to nutritional risk

The Rattlesnake King
Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry
by Dan Hurley
Over 60 percent of Americans buy and take herbal and dietary supplements for all sorts of reasons-to prevent illness (vitamin C), to ease depression (St. John's wort), to aid weight loss (ephedra), to boost the memory (ginkgo biloba), and even to cure

The Vitamine Manual
by Walter H. Eddy
In 1911 Casimir Funk coined the name Vitamin to describe the substance which he believed curative of an oriental disease known as beri-beri. This disease is common in Japan, the Philippines and other lands where the diet consists mainly of rice

How and When To Be Your Own Doctor
by Dr. Isabelle A. Mose, Steve Solomon
I have already explained the hygienist's view of why people get sick. The sequence of causation goes: enervation, toxemia, alternative elimination, disease. However, there is one more link in this chain, a precursor to enervation that

The Nutritional Status of Alcoholics : Vitamins
by National Institute of Health
Vitamins are molecules that are present in small amounts in various foods and are essential for normal metabolism; insufficient vitamin levels in the body can lead to serious diseases. Alcoholics, even without liver disease, tend to have clinical