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VITAMIN B3 MAINTAINS YOUR
HEALTH
Everyone needs a minimum portion of vitamin B3 to maintain a good
physical and mental condition, this happens because this vitamin has an
important role in obtaining energy. The consumption of alcohol, contraceptive
pills can cause a deficit of vitamin B3.
Besides participating in the processes of obtaining energy, vitamin B3
reduce cholesterol in high dozes; it has a preventive role in the
cardiovascular illnesses; it is used to control the mental disorders, as
emotional instability, persecution complex and feelings of insecurity.
It makes part of the digestive process and prevents gastrointestinal
disorders; it participates in the synthesis of several hormones, specially
sexual ones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone) and the thyroids and
insulin; it is the principal element against an
illness that
appears in the
skin because of lack of this vitamin or the incapacity of the body to convert
the tryptophan an amino acid into niacin, one of the forms of vitamin B3.
So, for the body to act correctly, it is necessary that
adults should take vitamin B3 in a dose of 15 to 20 mg a day and
children younger than 10 from 6 to 8 mg. Of course in the cases the body has a
great lack of the vitamin, a person can take bigger doses between 50 and 100
mg without putting their health at risk.
While the specialist doesn’t consider necessary that a person takes
higher doses or supplements of vitamin B3, the daily required amount for the
body can be found in food such as milk, eggs, salmon, sardines, tuna, beef
liver, rabbit, whole rice, wheat germ, potatoes, pear, grapes, peanut,
pumpkin, spinach. REFERENCE: http://healthy.net/asp/templates/news.asp?Id=2810
PANGAMIC ACID (VITAMIN B15)
Pangamic acid is still a fairly controversial vitamin. The quotation
marks suggest that we are not sure whether it is a vitamin. It has not yet
been shown to be essential in the diet (vitamins must be supplied from
external sources), and no symptoms or deficiency diseases are clearly revealed
in restricted consumption
Pangamic acid was first isolated in 1951 from apricot. It is also found
in whole grains such as brown rice, pumpkin and sunflower seeds. Water and
direct sunlight may reduce the potency and availability of B15
in these foods.
Pangamic acid is mainly helps in the formation of certain amino acids
such as methionine. It may play role in the oxidation of glucose and in cell
respiration. By this function, it may reduce hypoxia in cardiac and other
muscles. It acts as an antioxidant, helping to lengthen cell life through its
protection from oxidation. Pangamic acid is also thought to offer mild
stimulation to the endocrine and nervous systems, and by enhancing liver
function, it may help in the detoxification process. Pangamic acid has been
shown to lower blood cholesterol, so it could provide some nutritional support
for those with high serum cholesterol or cardiovascular problems or to reduce
heart and blood vessel disease risks. It may also help improve circulation and
general oxygenation of cells and tissues, so it may be used with any decreased
cardiac or brain functions. Pangamic acid may be helpful in general for
atherosclerosis and hypertension.
In Europe vitamin B15 has been used to treat
premature aging, because of circulatory stimulus and its antioxidant effect.
It is found to be a helpful protectant from pollutants, especially carbon
monoxide. Pangamic acid supports for anyone living in a large polluted city or
with a high-stress life style could be a wave of the future. There are no
known toxic effects from even high amounts of pangamic acid, 50-100 mg (and
even more) taken three times daily have revealed no side effects. REFERENCE:
The connection between vitamin D deficiency and two bowel diseases occur
in one out of every 1,000 people in North America and Europe
Vitamin D deficiency worsens the symptoms of chron’s disease and
ulcerative colitis. Treatment with vitamin D for as little as two weeks lessens
the symptoms of these inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).
Vitamin D deficiency is more common in people who have IBD. In addition,
the anti-inflammatory drugs often used to treat IBD can cause bone loss as a
side effect. Vitamin D taken in combination with these drugs may be able to
reduce the effective dose of anti-inflammatory needed to treat the disease and
decrease bone loss as well as treat the vitamin deficiency.
The researchers point out that these factors suggest that vitamin D and
IBD are linked. For example, IBD was shown to be more prevalent in North America
and Northern Europe, which receive less sunlight. Vitamin D is manufactured in
the skin on exposure to sunlight and people make significantly less in northern
climates, especially in the winter. The incidence of IBD in Canada, for example,
is the highest in the world. REFERENCE: http://www.psu.edu/ur/2000/vitamind.html
New research is demonstrating that vitamin E and other nutritional
supplements may be very helpful in preventing prostate cancer. This is important
information since prostate cancer. This is important since prostate cancer is
the second most common cancer death for men behind lung cancer. In addition to
vitamin E supplements, selenium is identified as mineral that works with vitamin
E to counteract prostate cancer, adequate vitamin D may also be protective. The
newsletter of nutrition also lists the following items as beneficial in lowering
the risk of the second leading cancer killer among men: Avoiding a high – fat
diet, especially dietary intake that is rich in red meat and other sources of
animal fat. Eating lots of fruits, vegetable. In particular, eating tomatoes and
tomato sauce, which contain lycopene, a carotenoid that appears to help prevent
prostate cancer. Watermelon and pink grapefruit are also good sources of
lycopene. It seems wise that all middle-aged men need to consider serious
nutritional supplementation to ward off the possibility of developing prostate
cancer. Vitamin and mineral supplementation is a simple and effective way of
maintaining excellent general and prostate health.
REFFERENCE: http://www.healingaction.com/article1036.html?printable=y
يحتاج الإنسان إلي جزء ولو ضئيل من
فيتامين ب3 ليحافظ على الصحة الجسدية
والعقلية حيث إنه يلعب دوراً مهماً في
الإمداد بالطاقة. وتعاطي الكحول أو أخذ حبوب
منع الحمل أو الحبوب المنومة يؤدي إلي نقص
فيتامين ب3. ويستخدم فيتامين
ب3 لعلاج بعض أمراض الجهاز الدوري حيث إنه
يقلل من مستوى الكوليسترول في الدم كما يشارك
في تخليق عدد من الهرمونات وبالأخص الجنسية.
ويوجد فيتامين ب3
في العديد من الأغذية مثل اللبن والبيض
والخميرة والكمثرى والعنب والفول السوداني
والطماطم والبطاطس.
تم استخراج فيتامين ب15
المعروف باسم حمض البانجاميك عام 1951 من
المشمش وقد وجد أيضاً في الحبوب الكاملة مثل
الأرز البني والقرع وحبوب دوار الشمس ويساعد
حمض البانجاميك على تكوين بعض الأحماض
الأمينية مثل الميثايونين كما يساعد في أكسدة
الجلوكوز وتنفس الخلية وهذا يجعل له دوراً
هاماً في تقليل نقص الأكسجين في عضلات القلب
والعضلات الأخرى كما أن له تأثيراً مضاداً
للأكسدة ويساعد أيضاً على تحفيز الغدد الصماء
والجهاز العصبي كما يحسن
وظائف الكبد
ويقلل الكوليستيرول في الدم وكذلك يساعد على طرد
السموم من الجسم ويستخدم في أوربا لعلاج
الشيخوخة المبكرة ولا يوجد أي أضرار من
استخدام كميات كبيرة منه قد تصل إلى 50-100 مج أو
أكثر 3 مرات يومياً.
لوحظ أن نقص فيتامين د يؤدى إلى
تفاقم أعراض مرض كرونز وأعراض التهاب القولون
التقرحية وأن العلاج بفيتامين د لمدة أسبوعين
على الأقل يؤدى إلى تحسن ملحوظ في هذه الأعراض.
وقد لوحظ أن أمراض التهابات الأمعاء أكثر
انتشاراً في شمال أمريكا مما قد يؤدي
إلى نقص في تخليق فيتامين د عن طريق الجلد.
طرق التغذية السليمة تساعد في
منع
سرطان البروستاتا أوضحت دراسة جديدة أن الأغذية الغنية
بفيتامين ﻫ وكذلك بعناصر أخرى مثل
السيلينيوم وفيتامين د ذات أثر فعال في منع
الإصابة بسرطان البروستاتا والذي يعتبر ثاني
أكبر مسبب للوفاة في الرجال بعد سرطان الرئة
كما وجد أيضاً أن من العوامل التي تقلل من
الإصابة بهذا النوع من السرطان تجنب الأغذية
الغنية بالدهون والإكثار من تناول الفواكه
والحبوب والخضراوات والأسماك.
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