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VIT & MIN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| VITAMIN A | HELPS EYES ADJUST TO LIGHT AND DARK. EFFECTS SYNTHESIS OF PROTEIN. HELPS STABILIZE AND MAINTAIN CELL MEMBRANES AND RESIST INFECTION. EFFECTS GROWTH OF SKELETAL AND SOFT TISSUE. ESSENTIAL ROLE IN REPRODUCTION OF CELLS. |
| VITAMIN B1 | CO-ENZYME THAT IS CLOSELY INVOLVED IN CARB METABOLISM. |
| VITAMIN B-2 | NEEDED FOR RESPIRATORY REACTIONS BY CATALYZING METABOLISM OF PROTEINS AND FATS |
| NIACIN | NEEDED TO CONVERT FATS, PROTEINS, CARBS BY OXIDATION REDUCTION. ACTS DIRECTLY ON VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CAUSING VASODILATION. REDUCES LDO, VLDL, TRIGLYCERIDES AND INCREASES HDL |
| PANTOTHENIC ACID | ESSENTIAL FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF CO-ENZYME A. HAS ROLE IN RELEASING ENERGY AND FATS, PROTEINS AND CARBS. TREATS PARALYTIC ILIUS AFTER SURGERY |
| B-6 | TREATS PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY AND B6 ANEMIA. |
| FOLIC ACID | NEEDED FOR ERYTHROPOIESIS. INCREASES RBC, WBC AND PLATELET FORMATION IN MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIAS, HEPATIC DISEASE, ALCOHOLISM, HEMOLYSIS, INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION, AND USED PRIOR TO PREGNANCY TO PREVENT NTD’S!!!!!!!!!! AFTER YOU BECOME PREGGERS – IT’S TOO LATE |
| VITAMIN B-12 | METABOLISM OF PROTEINS, FATS AND CARBS. TREATS PERNICIOUS ANEMIA, MALABSORPTION SYNDROME, HEMORRHAGE, BLIND LOOP SYNDROME. SYNTHESIS OF DNA, CELL GROWTH, PREGNANCY |
| VITAMIN C | AIDS IN CHANGE OF FOLIC ACID AND CERTAIN AMINOACIDS, ASSISTS ABSORPTION OF IRON AND CALCIUM AND BLOCKS ABSORP OF COPPER IN GI. PROTECTS A AND E AND POLYUNSATURATED FATS. PREEMIES NEED LARGE DOSES. |
| VITAMIN D | MOVEMENT OF CALCIUM AND PHOSPHORUS IONS INTO 3 SITES: SMALL INTESTINE, KIDNEYS, BONE. INHIBITS SPREAD OF FIBROBLAST AND KERATINOCYTES IN SKIN AND PROMOTES EPIDERMAL KERATINOCYTES. TREATS RICKETS, AND ADULT OSTEOMALACIA, HYPOPARATHYROIDISM AND HYPOPHOSPHA |
| VITAMIN E | ESSENTIAL ANTIOXIDANT THAT PREVENTS DAMAGE TO CELL MEMBRANE AND STABILIZES RBC WALLS AND PROTECTS FROM HEMOLYSIS OR DESTRUCTION. LINK TO ALZHEIMER’S |
| VITAMIN K | HELPS HEPATIC FORMATION OF ACTIVE PROTHROMBIN (FACTOR II). TREATS BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDERS. NEWBORNS RECEIVE K AT BIRTH. |
| CALCIUM | MUSCULAR AND NEUROLOGIC ACTIVITY ESP. IN CARDIAC. |
| IRON – | SYNTHESIS OF MYOGLOBIN AND HEMOGLOBIN. FOR HYPOCHROMIC ANEMIA DURING INFANCY, CHILDHOOD AND PREGNANCY AND BREASTFEEDING. USED FOR PT RECOVERING FROM ANEMIA AND GI SURGERIES |
| MAGNESIUM | ASSISTS NORMAL SKELETAL AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE DEVELOPMENT AND HELPS IN INITIATION OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS AND CHOLESTEROL AND FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS. FOUND IN ALL BODY TISSUES AND FLUIDS. |
| POTASSIUM | THE PRINCIPAL INTRACELLULAR CATION OF MOST BODY TISSUES HELPS NORMAL RENAL FUNCTION, MUSCLE CONTRACTION, TRANSMISSION OF NERVE IMPULSES, NEPHRITIC SYNDROME, HEPATIC CIRRHOSIS WITH ACITES, HYPERALDOSTERONISM |
| ZINC | ESSENTIAL FOR NORMAL GROWTH AND TISSUE REPAIR. CREATION OF DNA AND SYNTHESIS OF PROTEIN FROM AMINO ACIDS. WOUND HEALING AND FUNCTIONS IN MOVING VITAMIN A FROM LIVER STORES. HAS BEEN TESTED FOR USE IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND ACNE. |
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