What are Vitamin B Supplements

Vitamin B refers to not one, but eight different vitamins. B vitamins play a vital role in maintaining good health and well-being. As the building blocks of a healthy body, B vitamins have a direct impact on your energy levels, brain function, and cellular metabolism. Biotin or vitamin B7, helps keep your skin, hair, eyes, liver, and nervous system healthy. B12 comes both as cyanocobalamin and the activated form known as methylcobalamin.

The B12 methylcobalamin differs from cyanocobalamin in that the cyano at the cobalt is replaced with a methyl group. Most vitamin B12 supplements contain cyanocobalamin; however, the liver must first "detoxify" the cyanide molecule and attach a methyl group to form methylcobalamin as the more activated form. This doesn’t mean to say one form should be favored over the other.

Folic acid or vitamin B9, helps make healthy red blood cells, which carry oxygen around the body.

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