Over the past few decades, we have been ascertaining about vitamins and their various roles in our body's correct mechanism. Their important role in our existence and healthful body is something that we just can't ignore and thus, there rises a need to understand them in more depth for a better knowledge and thus a better body. When we talk about the vitamins we include both its kinds, namely the water soluble vitamins and the fat soluble vitamins. However, here below we try to focus more on the benefits of the water soluble vitamins on our body.
The basically compromise of the vitamin c and the other necessary vitamin B complexes such as the B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B12, B6 (pyridoxine), niacin, pantothenic acid etc. These water soluble vitamins when in their common state are not active but instead need to be activated and thus converted into their coenzyme state so as to perform their many functions. Moreover, as they are water soluble, they can't be stored into our body and thus need to be devoured regularly through the vitamin sources such as the green leafy vegetables, fruits, etc.
Every single water soluble vitamin has its own value and performs a rare function and thus they are all immensely important in our body. Most of the vitamins act as coenzymes in our body which further help in production of energy from the food that we eat daily. The water soluble vitamins are moreover desired in our body to maintain a better appetite, vision, skin and a vigorous body.
o Vitamin B1: Also called as Thiamin and its deficiency cause beri beri.
o Vitamin B2: known as Riboflavin and is a vital antioxidant.
o Vitamin B3: This vitamin is also entitled as Niacin and is important in upholding a better and fit heart along with the vigorous blood lipids.
o Vitamin B5: The Pantothenic acid is needed for the adrenal functioning as well as the Krebs's cycle.
o Vitamin B6: The vitamin B6 also termed as the Pyridoxine is vital for the 100 different enzymatic reactions.
o Vitamin B12: Also entitled as cyanocobalamin, the deficiency of this vitamin causes diverse psychological problems like weight loss, weakness, etc.
o Vitamin C: Ascorbic acid is one of the most essential vitamins which facilitates in building collagen and the correct maintenance of the immune system of our body.
o Folic acid: Generally, the folic acid is not thought as a vitamin but is essential for the maturation of the red and the white blood cells as well as for the synthesis of DNA.
Thus, our vigorous living just can't be upheld without these essential water soluble vitamins.