By food scientist - Isra Bajawray. Importance of vitamins in the pandemic. 

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Vitamins help your body prevent abnormalities in your health.. 

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Vitamins help your body prevent abnormalities in your health.

Vitamin deficiency can cause diseases like blindness (from lack of vitamin A) and Scurvy (from lack of vitamin C).

Everyone needs vitamins whether in is from food or vitamin supplements.

Supplements do not completely replace food because there is lots of nutrients that is in food but not in supplements.

Vitamins perform hundreds of roles in your body like healing wounds, boosting your immune system and converts food into energy.. 

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Vitamins perform hundreds of roles in your body like healing wounds, boosting your immune system and converts food into energy.

Not all vitamin deficiency diseases are curable when they get to a bad state.. 

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Are there known treatments to the diseases that lack of vitamins causes?

Not all vitamin deficiency diseases are curable when they get to a bad state.

For example :Wernicke-Korsakoff caused by lack of vitamin B1 in “acute” situations is curable but if it gets worse the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome cannot be reversed and can damage your brain.

Some vitamin deficiency like Vitamin C deficiency which causes scurvy  is easily treated by boosting your vitamin C intake.

Routinely having an overload of vitamins can harm you.. 

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Is there a danger in over intake of vitamins?

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Routinely having an overload of vitamins can harm you.

Too much of vitamin C could cause nausea and stomach cramps.

It is not possible to get an overdose of vitamins from food.

Don’t forget to take your daily vitamins.. In pathogens you need to keep your immune system strong.. 

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Don’t forget to take your daily vitamins.

In pathogens you need to keep your immune system strong.

Vitamin C, D , E and B6 keep your immune system strong.

Your body need vitamin E as an antioxidant so don’t forget your vitamins.

roughly:. Vitamin A - 1 - 3 mg. How much vitamins do we need on daily bases?. 

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How much vitamins do we need on daily bases?

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Vitamin B2        -         25 – 200 mg

Vitamin B3        -         30 – 100 mg

Vitamin B5        -         20 – 500 mg

Vitamin B6        -         10 – 15  mg

Vitamin H          -         300 – 5000 mg

Vitamin E           -         400 – 2000 mg

"Supplements: Nutrition in a Pill?" Mayo Clinic. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 17 Nov. 2020. Web. 19 Feb. 2022.. 

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"Supplements: Nutrition in a Pill?" Mayo Clinic. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 17 Nov. 2020. Web. 19 Feb. 2022.

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Lawler, Moira, Becky Upham, Kelly Kennedy, Jessica Migala, Rebecca Treon, and Matthew Kadey. "What Is Scurvy? Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention." EverydayHealth.com. 1996. Web. 19 Feb. 2022.

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Importance of vitamins in the pandemic

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