How did vitamins come to be called after letters of the alphabet? National Geographic's Erin Blakemore looks at the history and discovery of these vital dietary components, and why vitamin K bucks the naming trend.
"Niacin, also known as vitamin B3, is a water-soluble B vitamin found in meat, fish, nuts, legumes, brown rice and fortified cereals...Being water soluble, excess levels of niacin are usually excreted in our urine. But new research from the Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, has suggested that two of the breakdown products of this vitamin may be associated with an increased risk of heart disease and strokes."
“Some supplements are needed, and prenatal vitamins are one of the best examples. Unfortunately, they are also a great example of why products need to be tested and safe because pregnant people shouldn’t have to play folic acid, vitamin, and heavy metal roulette. We need more studies to understand how common contamination is with these products and how often they deviate from the amounts listed on the labels” #Pregnancy#Vitamins https://vajenda.substack.com/p/whats-in-your-prenatal-vitamin
Birth Anniversary of English #Biochemist Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861). He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of #Vitamins.