Fat Soluble Vitamins

Vitamins are very essential for daily nutritional purposes. They can give you healthy life and energy to work more efficiently. Vitamins are not the energy source by themselves as carbohydrates or lipids are, but these are enhancers of certain metabolic reactions and help them to occur at certain rate that can produce sufficient mount of energy for daily nutritional purposes. Nowadays many food supplement enriched with vitamins are available at medical stores and grocery malls for daily intake to fuel up yourself. But excess of everything is bad. If vitamins are not needed in the body than these are stored in the body and extra storage of fat soluble vitamins in the body and low consumption of vitamins can cause certain toxicities in the body causing drastic effects.. So vitamins and their dosage should always be recommending or prescribed by a nutritionist or physician.
Vitamins are of many types and in previous day when people were not aware of the vitamin use then they had developed their own ways of curing vitamin deficiencies related diseases. For example for night blindness they used liver juices and extracts that is a rich source of vitamin a that can cure blindness.

Vitamins are classified previously as alphabetical order s as they were further discovered time after time and some vitamins were so familiar in nature but different in work than these vitamins are numbered under one family of vitamins and named after their characteristic. Vitamins are basically of two kinds and separated in two families on the basis of its solubility as follows:

1. Fat Soluble Vitamins (Vitamin A, D, E And K)
2. Water Soluble Vitamins (Vitamin B And C)

Fat soluble vitamins are the vitamins known to be dissolved in organic solvents and not in water. These vitamins retain more in body than water soluble vitamins. Vitamins are the organic compounds and these cannot be synthesized by human but only natural or environmental produced vitamin can be taken in food sources.

Fat soluble vitamins are soluble in fats so these can dissolve in adipose tissue as they can retain more in body therefore they cause more toxicity to an organism. Fat soluble and water soluble vitamins have same function as to yield the energy production reactions. But most of all they are very different in their chemistry and target cells to do different works in body. The characteristics of fat soluble and water soluble vitamins indicate clearly the differences of their action on target .fat soluble vitamins are soluble in fat and organic solvents. These are lipid like molecules and absorb s along with dietary fat. So it mainly depends upon how well fat is absorbed in the body that is dependent on the release of bile salts ad lipase enzyme in small intestine. If fat absorption is sufficient then the fat soluble vitamins can be taken up by body at the rate of 40-90 % of the daily need. In comparison to fat soluble vitamins, water soluble vitamins have less storage ability and they cannot retain in body for much time because of their water solubility property and these are excreted out of the body through blood filtration in kidneys.

Because of their retaining less in body and as they are excreted out in urine they are less toxic and cannot cause much harm as fat soluble vitamins do.

These fat soluble vitamins are very helpful in curing heart diseases and blindness and cancer and many other problems. They are playing important role in medical science as well. Megdose4s is important phenomenon that can cure many diseases such as lowering cholesterol level.

A fat soluble vitamin is widely distributed in food and as supplements in market and fat soluble vitamin list is as follows:

1. Vitamin A
2. Vitamin D, D2, D3
3. Vitamin E
4. Vitamin K, K1, K2

Fat soluble vitamin c is not very common kind but it was considered as previously used vitamin. Fat soluble vitamin c is now recalled as vitamin k and is widely used in its new form. Vitamins play vital role as fat soluble vitamins and water soluble vitamins and are good to maintain health if properly taken with diagnosis of some physician.