CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vitamin, Orthomolecular Medicine, Vitamin B3 Complex

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181

Document Summary

The learning goals of this topic are to: Identify the vitamins and categorize them as fat or water soluble: distinguish between recommended daily allowances versus high doses of individual vitamins to treat health issues, define orthomolecular medicine, describe examples of current research into individual vitamin use. Vitamins are nutrient needed in small amount to prevent deficiency diseases. Nutritional establishment state: a balanced diet contains all the vitamins in the required amounts. Water soluble: b1, b2, b3, b5, b6, b7, b12, c: the gap btween the naming -> due to the removal since they are found not truly vitamins. Vitamins containing products are very promoted -> vitamin water, cereal, etc vitamins pills Vitamin c -> actual name: ascorbic acid. During discovery voyages (15-17th century) -> sailor too long in sea -> develop symptoms of disease -> Scurvy (gum of the teeth start bleeding, legs became swollen and puffs ) (time of jacques cartier.