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Vitamin P - Bioflavanoids ...
...the role that bioflavanoids, also called vitamin P,
have in the body
The bioflavanoids are sometimes called flavones and are also called vitamin P
because of their effect on the permeability of capillaries.
Vitamin P are a group of water soluble substances which comprise a number of factors
including herpseridin, myrecetin, nobiletin, rutin, tangeritin and quercetin and there is
no known toxicity symptoms reported with bioflavanoids.
Vitamin P was first discovered in the white part of citrus fruits and the flavanoids are
responsible for making the yellow and orange colours we see in the fruits.
Absorption of vitamin P, bioflavanoids takes place in the intestinal tract.
Bioflavanoids are found with vitamin C in foods and also work along it, but unfortunately
vitamin P is destroyed by exposure to air or by boiling.
Some food sources where you will find vitamin P, bioflavanoids, is in apricots, cherries,
cantaloupe melon, papaya and the skin and piths of citrus fruit.
Vitamin P is found in the whole of the lemon, including the juice. Also, buckwheat is an excellent source of the
bioflavanoid rutin.
To maintain the health of capillaries and blood vessels, you need vitamin P, bioflavanoids
to work in conjunction with vitamin C, plus the flavanoids enhance the function of vitamin
C.
Vitamin P, bioflavanoids are also required by the body to aid in resistance to infection
and to prevent oxidation of vitamin C within the body.
If you are stressed out, or are on drugs such as aspirin, non-steroidal
anti-inflammatories, oral contraceptives, diuretics or oestrogens, then the amount of
bioflavanoids (vitamin P) may need to be increased.
The important co-nutrient to go alongside vitamin P is vitamin C, as you have seen above,
but as yet, from the studies conducted, there do not appear to be any other major
nutrients that work together with the bioflavanoids.
Nutritional Vitamin Supplements
o Maximol (liquid vitamins and
minerals)
o Orachel (multi-vitamin oral chelation
formula)
Other Nutritional Information
o Specific Vitamins and their benefits
o The role of Vitamins in our bodies
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