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Vitamin B6 is part of the Vitamin B complex and depending on what you’ve needed it for or taken it for, you may have heard varying things about it. Vitamin B6 is critical for maintaining normal blood sugar levels, and helping prevent heart disease by also ensuring that the body’s homocysteine levels are also on [...]

Niacin is an interesting vitamin that the body creates on its own. Because the body is able to produce niacin, the recommended daily intake for men and women is assuming that the body is also making up for some of its own niacin requirement. Men are recommended to have 16mg/day while women are advised to [...]

Riboflavin is part of the Vitamin B family and more specifically, is also known as Vitamin B2. This vitamin helps extract energy from carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Riboflavin also helps control your metabolism and it also moves around to different areas of the body. Riboflavin is also very important for skin development and creating mucous [...]

Thiamin is one of those nutrients that you might see on a nutrition label and wonder what the heck it is and why the heck you need it. The fact is you don’t need much Thiamin and men are only required to get 1.2mg/day while women are recommended to get 1.1mg/day. It’s a good thing [...]

Vitamin K is mostly known for its power in helping blood cells, especially when it comes to clotting and because of this, it’s an important vitamin that can help with serious conditions such as hemorrhagic disease. Men are advised to get 120ug/day of Vitamin K while 90ug/day is recommended for women. Green, leafy vegetables are [...]

Vitamin E is a vitamin that’s mostly known for its huge antioxidant properties. Vitamin E works to find and destroy free radicals, which can be very dangerous. Free radicals are vicious molecules that can cause things such as heart disease and cancer. The antioxidants found in Vitamin E help destroy these free radicals as well [...]

Vitamin D may be known as the Sunshine Vitamin because the sun’s rays do provide an excellent source of Vitamin D that is easily absorbed through our skin. However, because of its amazing ability to help with bone growth and development, it may be more appropriate to call it the Bone Vitamin. Vitamin D helps [...]