Your Vitamins Today

By Walter Taguchi

Vitamin B3 is not one of the glamour vitamins and is not as commonly understood. That being said, there is a lot of value to be found in these vitamins.

Vitamin B3 is known by several other names. It is also called niacin, nicotinamide, nicotinic acid, and niacinamide. Niacin is the most common of these names and is used on nutritional labels frequently. Vitamin B3 is very soluble in hot water and in alcohol. It does not get cooked out of food with the heat of light cooking, but does tend to be lost in cooking water.

The body has the ability to manufacture vitamin B3 from an amino acid known as tryptophane. As with all vitamins, B3 is needed to supplement the body’s production. B3 is stored mostly in the liver and it is absorbed directly through the intestines.

Vitamin B3 has many uses in the body. It is needed in the digestive processes and it also activates various enzymes such as ones that feed the brain, regulate blood pressure, and even control the Continue Reading…

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Vitamins and minerals can be absorbed by the body in a number of ways.

They first enter our body through the food we eat. Secondly, we can take vitamin supplements to increase the amount of pertinent vitamins and minerals. There are different methods of taking medication and one of the most common methods is absorbing it in its liquid form. Do the advantages of liquid vitamins far outweigh its disadvantages – if there are any?

Read on and find out.

Better or Easier Absorption for Kids
Although liquid vitamins may taste worse than vitamins in flavored, chewable tablet forms, they are however easier to absorb. There are numerous cases in which children have problems with choking, breathing and swallowing simply because of their inability to absorb medication or vitamins in this form.

This is the same problem as well for adults who have lost their ability to control their jaws or are unable to digest anything that is not in liquid form.

Liquid Vitamins are More Effective
Because of its form, liquid vitamins can be assimilated immediately into the blood stream for a more systemic administration of the vitamin and its average absorption rate is approximately 90 to 98%. It is also three to five times more Continue Reading…

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