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All You Need to Know About Vitamin B-12

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Published on January 29, 2009

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All You Need to Know About Vitamin B-12

Vitamin B-12 is one of the eight vitamins in the B-complex group. It plays a very important role in a number of metabolic functions in our body.

Generally, B-complex group vitamins are water-soluble in nature, meaning they easily dissolve in water and other body fluids. Because of this, the B-complex group vitamins are not retained in our body. They are removed from our system from time to time. So a daily intake of the water-soluble vitamins is essential.

Unlike other water-soluble vitamins, vitamin B-12 can be stored in our body, although in small quantities. The amount of vitamin B-12 stored in our body is sufficient for a few years, and so its deficiency is not very common to occur. Continue Reading / See Additional Photos