Nutrition. 12 Essential vitamins and Minerals????

[purplehair]

Anyone know what these 12 are??

Thanks in advance:-)

[theprof]

There are actually twelve essentials vitamins before we even begin to consider the minerals. The twelve vitamins are:

Vitamin A (Retinol)
Vitamin D (Cholecalciferol/Calciferol)
Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
Vitamin E (Alpha-Tocopherol)
Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
Niacin (Nicotinic Acid/Nicotinamide)
Pantothenic Acid
Biotin
Folic Acid

[purplehair]

Thank you theprof!:-)

[ryepie]

Also, Vitamin K

[purplehair]

cheers ryepie:-)

[theprof]

It's very debatable that Vitamin K should be classified as n "essential" vitamin for one very good reason - deficiency hardly ever arises as the human body synthesises the vitamin itself.

Much current thinking classifies "essential vitamins" as those in which deficiencies are commonly seen due to inadequate intake. This very rarely occurs with Vitamin K, which is used for the production of blood clotting factors and proteins necessary for the normal calcification of bone.

Vitamin K1 (Phylloquinone) is present in many vegetables in amounts generally exceeding the RDA of the vitamin in humans. Intestinal bacteria are capable of synthesising more than adequate quantities of Vitamin K2 (Menaquinone), which makes up a large proportion of the human daily requirement.

All forms of Vitamin K are absorbed in a similar manner to that of other fat-soluble viamins so deficiency only occurs in diseases involving the malabsorption of fats. The most common conditions in which Vitamin K deficiency occurs is biliary obstruction and cholestatic jaundice, and those conditions are fairly rare. Some antibiotics do affect the synthesis of Vitamin K, but is usually only for a short term and is of no significant clinical consequence to the patient.

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[theprof]

A Vitamin K analogue called Phytomenadione was always given by very slow intravenous injection to the newborn, especially premature infants, where severe deficiency can cause haemorrhagic disease. Some centres currently give prophylactic Vitamin K to all neonates, whereas in others, it's only given to premature babies. All the same, universal treatment of all neonates with Vitamin K is no longer the norm in the UK.

There were moves by the EU sometime ago to ban Vitamin K from Vitamin supplements as their "advisors" pointed out the non-essential nature of the vitamin. After internal protest from the industry, the EU relented. However, some manufacturers have taken this on board and it is possible to buy many so-called "multivitamin" preparations that do not contain Vitamin K, which seems to point to manufacturers not regarding it as an essential vitamin either ( My wife currently swallows pots of one of the best-selling proprietary preparations called Multibionta Activate and it does not contain Vitamin K).

The twelve vitamins I listed above can cause serious deficiency diseases following insufficient intake, and those are the ones that are generally regarded as being essential in humans. This is why those twelve vitamins are almost without exception included in "multivitamin" preparations. Vitamin K confines itself to rare coagulation disorders.

[brachiopod]

There are, in fact, only three essential minerals, they are quartz, potassium-feldspar and cummintonite.

The remaining nine vitamins are made up exclusively from the secret blend of (originally) eleven herbs and spices from KFC.
(It was those loony-European Union-foreigner-kill-joys that re-classified "fat", "lard" and "mechanically recovered meat" as the same thing, hence only nine 'secret' ingredients.)

[Ric.ror]

Yes but is there a tablet with all these in