BIOL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Spina Bifida, Hemoglobin, Homocysteine
21 Jun 2015
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We can"t make any, found in most food in diet, can have disease without but cured with. Vitamin helps releasing energy, it"s absorbed in small intestine, and the amount absorbed depends on factors. Vitamins help with bone, growth and dvlpt, blood, metabolism, amino acid meta, antioxidant. B and c are water soluble and a, d, e and k fat soluble (in chylomicrons and can be toxic) It is made for protein, repo and growth (absorb of nutrition) and vision (help tears) Carotenoids lutein, zeaxanthin and lycopene antioxidants. Is stored in liver (can cause liver damage) Substance from cholesterol becomes vitamin d3 then to kidneys then vitamin d then goes to liver then becomes 25-oh. Make you absorb calcium phosphor more and reduce risk of cancer. Thiamin (b1) needed for macronutrient metabolism, lack of it beriberi weakness etc. Riboflavin (b2) same then b1 (breaks down at the light)
