Vitamins

 I've been gathering information on vitamins in the past few days and therefore I've came out with these tables: 

In government hospitals, vitamins aren't commonly prescribed for supplementation purposes. Instead, they are used only when a deficiency is suspected or when a patient presents with signs of deficiency. However, as time goes by and more journal articles are published, the importance of vitamins has become widely acknowledged among us healthcare providers.

Vitamins, although they're just a minute part of a complete daily nutrients requirement, their roles are equally important as other macro & micronutrients. Most of them works as coenzymes and cofactor in various cellular functions. Without these cofactors, our body key metabolic pathways slow down or even stop entirely, even if we’re eating enough carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.

For example, in my favourite Krebs Cycle requires Thiamine (Vitamin B1) for the conversion of pyruvate into acetyl-CoA. Meanwhile Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Niacin (Vitamin B3) & Panthotenic acid (Vitamin B5) form part of FAD and NAD⁺, the coenzymes that carry electrons during energy production. Without these vitamins, the Krebs Cycle cannot run efficiently, and therefore energy production in a form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) drops, leading to poor cellular function and thus manifested as a persistent fatigue. 

TBC.....