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Introducing
Biotin - Your Beauty Agent
Biotin is a water-soluble vitamin, generally
classified as a B-complex vitamin. After the initial discovery
of biotin, nearly forty years of research were required
to establish it as a vitamin and categorized in the B Vitamins
section. Biotin is required by all organisms but can only
be synthesized by bacteria, yeasts, molds, algae, and some
plant species. Is this what you think it means? Yes, it's
mainly the bacteria in your body that are making this vitamin
for you. But don't worry, only the good ones are doing this,
and the product of their free work will provide you amazing
help in improving your health. Studies have shown Biotin
may help to make healthy hair and prevent brittle nails.
The interesting thing is Biotin started to make you beautiful
since you were just born. Researches has shown that many
newborns have cradle cap, which is an inflammation of the
skin on the scalp.
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Why
Biotin?
Basically, you need Biotin to properly
use fats and amino acids from your foods. In its physiologically
active form biotin is attached at the active site of four
important enzymes, known as carboxylases. Each carboxylase
catalyzes an essential metabolic reaction.
Histones are proteins that bind to DNA and package it into
compact structures to form chromosomes. The compact packaging
of DNA must be relaxed somewhat for DNA replication and
transcription to occur. Modification of histones through
the attachment of acetyl or methyl groups (acetylation or
methylation) has been shown to affect the structure of histones,
thereby affecting replication and transcription of DNA.
The attachment of biotin to another molecule, such as a
protein, is known as "biotinylation". The enzyme
biotinidase has recently been shown to catalyze the biotinylation
of histones, suggesting that biotin may play a role in DNA
replication and transcription.
As mentioned in the introduction, deficient in Biotin may
result hair loss and weak finger nails. Studies in this
area is being carried out and the results are not yet clear.
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What's
the Adequate Intake Level for Biotin?
In 1998 the Food and Nutrition Board
of the Institute of Medicine felt the existing scientific
evidence was insufficient to calculate an RDA for biotin,
so they set an Adequate Intake level (AI). The AI for biotin
assumes that current average intakes of biotin (35 mcg to
60 mcg/day) are meeting the dietary requirement.
Daily recommendations for dietary vitamin B7 are listed
below.
Children and Youth:
Infants 0-6 months: 5 mcg/day
Infants 7-12 months: 6 mcg/day
Children 1-3 years: 8mcg/day
Children 4-8 years: 12 mcg/day
Children 9-13 years: 20 mcg/day
Adolescents 14-18 years: 25 mcg/day (female) 25 mcg/day
(male)
Adults:
Adults 19 years and older: 30 mcg/day (female) 30 mcg/day
(male)
Pregnancy all ages: 30 mcg/day
Breastfeeding all ages: 35 mcg/day
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