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Vitamins: Diseases
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"Vitamins are not one size fits all," says Joseph Lander, President and Founder of GenSpec. "Access to good health is a fundamental right and through our extensive research, product development, and dedication to educate the consumer, our products will revolutionize the way vitamins are used. By providing therapeutic levels of vital nutrients, GenSpec has the potential to help prevent certain diseases."
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Vitamins are organic molecules (not necessarily amines) that are essential to metabolism in all living organisms. While these molecules serve essentially the same role in all forms of life, higher organisms have lost the ability to synthesize vitamins. There are two major groups of vitamins: the fat-soluble vitamins designated by the letters A, D, E, and K, and the water-soluble vitamins, which are referred to as the vitamin B complex. Most vitamins are converted in vivo into coenzymes that work with metabolic enzymes to complete their biochemical functions. A lack of proper amounts of vitamins in the diet leads to a host of vitamin-deficiency diseases.
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The first large trial of B vitamins to lower homocysteine and prevent heart disease and stroke ended without finding any benefit. (14) In the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention trial, 3680 adults who had had non-disabling strokes took a pill containing high doses of vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid or one containing low doses of these three B vitamins. After two years, second strokes, heart attacks and other coronary heart disease events, and deaths were the same in the two groups. However, in that trial, high levels of homocysteine at baseline were associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
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A lack of proper amounts of vitamins in the diet leads to a host of vitamin-deficiency diseases. The photomicrograph in our banner depicts crystallites of vitamin C... known as ascorbic acid, which serves as a general reducing agent in many biochemical reactions and has been implicated by Nobel laureate Linus Pauling as a cure for the common cold. More importantly, this vitamin is necessary to ward off the disease known as scurvy, which is characterized by pronounced weakness, spongy gums, bleeding mucous membranes, and spotting of the skin caused by extravasation of blood. Awareness that the consumption of citrus fruits, which are rich in vitamin C, could ward off scurvy developed during the eighteenth century, more than a hundred years before the vitamin itself was identified. This early awareness improved the lives of many sufferers of the condition and led to the regular rations of lime juice provided for sailors of the British Royal Navy that resulted in their being dubbed "limeys." Additional well-known diseases associated with vitamin deficiency include rickets (vitamin D), beriberi (vitamin B1), pellagra (vitamin B3), and pernicious anemia (vitamin B12), among others.
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Elderly people should consider taking supplements of B vitamins as many are deficient in the nutrient, thought to protect against heart disease, argue German researchers in a new study. Elderly people should consider taking supplements of B vitamins as many are deficient in the nutrient, thought to protect against heart disease, argue German researchers in a new study.
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Labels on vitamins and other dietary supplements now include nutrient information and list all ingredients, including identifying parts of plants from which ingredients may be taken. Unlike the labels for drugs... labels for vitamins and supplements may not claim to prevent or treat any specific disease. Labels for vitamins and supplements include one of the following:
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