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Vitamin N

Vitamin N – lipoic acid – is not so popular as it some of his famous fellows, but at the same time is also important and necessary for a human body.

Vitamin N: lipoic acid on guards of health

Vitamin N (lipoic acid) concerns to fat-soluble group of substances. In the standard sense of the word vitamin N is not full-fledged vitamin, and represents vitaminopodobny connection. Thus, it can partially be synthesized in an organism (in intestines), to enter into structure of some fabrics and has valuable therapeutic properties at a number of diseases. In spite of the fact that lack of vitamin N in a human body is not so critical as lack of this or that true vitamin, it seriously affects the state of health enough.

In the middle of the 20th century vitamin N was emitted from beef liver, and then artificially synthesized by the American microbiologists. Till today it is considered one of the most powerful natural antioxidants. Except that, lipoic or thioctic acid independently struggles with the numerous free radicals attacking cells of a human body, oxidizing and destroying them, it performs even more important function, strengthening effect of other antioxidants, increasing protective functions and working capacity in general.

Vitamin N exerts positive impact on work of a thyroid gland and organs of sight, is necessary for complex protection of a human body against action of ultraviolet radiation. Besides vitamin N performs still a number of the major functions:

Is fermento-and insulinopodobny substance – the necessary participant of a number of endogenous biochemical reactions, for example, of glycolysis – transformations of sugar into energy;
It is necessary for life activity of mitochondrions – cellular structures of muscular tissue;
It is necessary for regulation of a metabolism;
Exerts a positive impact on work of a liver;
Provides high consumption of oxygen with brain cells;
Normalizes blood cholesterol level;
Renders spasmolytic, disintoxication and cholagogue effect.

Content of vitamin N in products

The products containing vitamin N are widespread and available. The sufficient dose of lipoic acid is available in any dairy products, fowl, beef, a liver, heart and kidneys, cabbage, spinach, mushrooms, yeast, brown rice and all types of greens.

Symptoms of a lack of vitamin N

The lack of vitamin N leads to excess accumulation in an organism of aggressive acids, in particular pyroracemic that is in turn fraught with various disorders of nervous activity:

Neuritis and polyneurites;
Dizzinesses;
Spasms and tics;
Frequent viral infections and colds.

The daily need of a human body for vitamin N makes normal 0,5 mg. At the same time there is a number of states when this dose has to be increased up to 3 mg:

Cardiovascular disturbances;
Syndrome of chronic fatigue and disturbance of concentration of attention;
Such viral infections as SARS, flu, herpes;
Atherosclerosis and fatty dystrophy of a liver;
Polyneuropathies;
Alzheimer's disease;
Hepatitises and cirrhoses.

The standard daily rate of vitamin N at children's age makes 13-25 mg, and at pregnant women and the feeding women increases up to 75 mg. At the use of high doses of lipoic acid toxic action is not noted. This property of vitamin N found broad application in treatment of a diabetes mellitus. Also drugs are popular with athletes when it is necessary to provide growth of muscle bulk.

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