When we mention the world "vitamin" most people think "pill". Thinking "pill" brings to mind confusing image of medicine and drugs. Though vitamin can and certaily often do the work of both medicine and drugs, they are neither.
Quite simply, vitamins are organic substances necessary for life. Vitamins are essential to the normal functioning of our bodies and save for a few exceptions, cannot be manufactured or synthesized internally. Necessary for our growth, vitality, and general well being, they are found in minute quantities in all natural food. We must obtain vitamins from foods. Vitamins are no substitute to food.
B2 (Riboflavin) Aid in growth and reproduction. Promote healthy skin, nails, hair. Help eliminate sore mouth, lips, and tongue. Benefit vision, alleviate eye fatigue. Function with other substances to metabolise carbohydrates, fats, and protien.
Its deficiency produce deases i.e. Ariboflavinosis-mouth, lips,skin,genitalia lesions.
But taking one particular part of vitamin if taken for long produces deficiency of others so, its better to take in complex.
It would be better if you take more riboflovin in food then drugs.
Best natural source of B2 are milk, mutton liver & kidney, yeast (nutritional yeast tabs. awailable with chemists), cheese, leafy green vegetables, fish, eggs, drum sticks.
So, be natural.
Deficiency of B2 may be the reason of other drugs like diabetes drugs, high consumption of red meat, prolong restricted diet for ulsers, stress requires more b-complex .
B2 works best with B6, Vit. C, and Niacin (B3).
Answered by
drsunilkaushal
, an ibibo Citizen,
at
10:32 PM on October 09, 2009
