Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Benefits of Vitamins B..

Vitamin B is a complex of eight water soluble vitamins active in cell metabolism.

They include Thiamine (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2, also called Vitamin G), Niacin (Vitamin B3, also called Vitamin P), Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5), Pyridoxine and Pyridoxamine (Vitamin B6), Biotin (Vitamin B7, also called Vitamin H), Folic acid (Vitamin B9, also called Vitamin M) and Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12).

Athletes, who use a lot of vitamin B, are very sensitive to a shortage of these vitamins. This is the result of a large literature study into the subject published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine. A shortage of vitamin B has an immediate negative impact on athletic performance, recovery capacity and the immune.

The Power of Vitamin B

Everyone craves for tremendous brainpower. Some of us tend to have this mentality that such brainpower is out of our league. But in actual fact, it is not! It can all be achieved with a regular intake of Vitamin B.

B = Brain

Vitamin B is the key nutrient that one can rely on to boost brainpower. Majority of us should know by now that Vitamin B comes in different forms and each form has its own ways of helping our brains cells to function properly:

Vitamin B1 or Thiamin: It helps the brain to absorb glucose, which can prevent your brain from any sort of mutilation.

Vitamin B2: It is also known as Riboflavin. Riboflavin is a water-soluble vitamin. This vitamin involved in vital metabolic processes in the body. It is manufactured in the body by the intestinal flora and is easily absorbed, although very small quantities are stored, so there is a constant.

Vitamin B5: It is also known as pantothenic acid. Vitamin B5 might be helpful in the management of certain medical disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Vitamin B5 is also known as the anti-stress vitamin at times. It is one of the eight water soluble B complex vitamins. Vitamin B5 helps production of the cellular antioxidant glutathione, and is therefore an essential vitamin.

Vitamin B6 or Pyridoxine: It aids in the development of neurotransmitters, which are created so that our brain cells can correspond with one another.

Vitamin B12 or Cobalamin: It helps develop myelin, a fatty covering that gives padding to the nerve fibers, protecting the nerves in the brain from harmful germs.

Without this vitamin, you can end up facing memory loss.

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