Most vitamins are soluble in either the watery or the fatty tissues of our bodies, but not in both. Vitamins C and B are water soluble; vitamins
A, E, D, and K are fat soluble. Both types of vitamins are necessary for health and long life.
We have different storage capacities for different vitamins. For example, if we received no vitamin C in our diet, we would die within a few months. With a diet containing no vitamin B-12, we would live years before dying of B-12 deficiency. Vitamin E can be stored in the body for only a few days to weeks, depending on intake, but it, takes many years to die of vitamin E deficiency, since the damage caused by E deficiency is slow but progressive (the damage causes more damage) and cumulative.
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and peptides. There are about twenty-six common amino acids (eight of which we require for normal metabolism because we cannot synthesize these in our bodies).
Minerals are compounds containing metals, such as iron, copper, zinc, and selenium, which often function as parts of enzymes. For example, four atoms of selenium are part of every molecule of your protective anti-aging enzyme glutathione peroxidase, and zinc or manganese and copper are found in the protective anti-aging enzyme superoxide dismutase.
ATP, adenosine triphosphate, is the substance which stores energy that is created when the body burns carbohydrates and fats in the citric acid cycle (see below). When energy is needed by the body (as, for example, in muscular contraction), ATP is broken down to release the stored energy. ATP is the universal energy molecule for your body in the same way that electricity is the universal energy source for a computer.
Although we have the capacity to manufacture certain nutrients, such as the vitamin PABA, it is still an advantage in some cases to take supplementary amounts. These materials cannot be manufactured in the body without expending raw materials and scarce bodily resources like enzymes. Sometimes it is more cost-effective to get these nutrients from supplements. For example, rats manufacture their own vitamin C, an important chemical in withstanding stress. Experiments have shown that giving the rats vitamin C supplements enables them to survive greater stresses than if they have to rely only on their own internally manufactured supplies. There is
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