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Clinical Nutrition in Aesthetic Medicine
#2-8. Introduction of Energy Vitamin B-Complex

Empirically, when deficiency was induced, nervous system abnormalities such as numbness of hands and feet, headache, fatigue, anxiety, gastrointestinal disorders, muscle spasms, and paralysis, decreased immunity, hypoglycemia, and increased insulin sensitivity appeared. Hypervitaminosis rarely appears as well.
Vitamin B7 (Biotin)
Vitamin B7 (biotin) is also called vitamin H. It has some unfamiliar aspects compared to other B-complex vitamins, and functions are also various. In general, it is involved in the process of gluconeogenesis and mainly acts as a coenzyme that converts pyruvate to oxaloacetate. It is also involved in fatty acid synthesis. It is involved in the synthesis of malonyl-CoA from acetyl-CoA, the first step in the fatty acid synthesis. Additionally, it is involved in the metabolism of……

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