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Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff to houstuf Words podcast. Hi Marshall,

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Speaker 1: brain It seems like you hear something new about vitamins

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Speaker 1: every day in the news. They stop cancer, they cure diseases,

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Speaker 1: they reverse aging, you name it. But if you ever

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Speaker 1: wondered what a vitamin is, A vitamin is a little

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Speaker 1: molecule that your body needs but has no way of

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Speaker 1: manufacturing itself. The amount you need every day is tiny,

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Speaker 1: less than a graham, but the only way for your

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Speaker 1: body to get it is from the outside, and without

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Speaker 1: it you have a major problem. Take vitamin C as

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Speaker 1: an example. In your body, you're forming collagen all the time.

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Speaker 1: One step and the reaction needs the molecule we know

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Speaker 1: is vitamin C. Without it, you cannot create new collagen.

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Speaker 1: Pretty soon, all your teeth become loose because collagen is

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Speaker 1: what holds them in place. That's the start of a

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Speaker 1: disease known as scurvy. For more on this and thousands

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Speaker 1: of other topics, go to house stuff works dot com.