Welcome to brain Stuff to houstuf Words podcast. Hi Marshall, brain It seems like you hear something new about vitamins every day in the news. They stop cancer, they cure diseases, they reverse aging, you name it. But if you ever wondered what a vitamin is, A vitamin is a little molecule that your body needs but has no way of manufacturing itself. The amount you need every day is tiny, less than a graham, but the only way for your body to get it is from the outside, and without
it you have a major problem. Take vitamin C as an example. In your body, you're forming collagen all the time. One step and the reaction needs the molecule we know is vitamin C. Without it, you cannot create new collagen. Pretty soon, all your teeth become loose because collagen is what holds them in place. That's the start of a disease known as scurvy. For more on this and thousands of other topics, go to house stuff works dot com.