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- 2. include: sunlight
- 3. is essential to bone health, muscle contraction, immune system, and energy production.
- 5. is essential to the mitochondria of cells (the cellular power plant that makes the energy your body needs from carbohydrates, proteins, and fats).
- 6. is essential to make collagen, bones, and connective tissue. It is a powerful antioxidant (prevents the destruction of cells through oxidation).
- 7. is essential to blood clotting and bone formation.
- 9. is essential to energy metabolism, metabolism of branched –chain amino acids (the building blocks of protein), brain tissue, and function of the body’s nerves (your nerves need to fire in order to move a muscle for example).
- 11. is essential to muscle repair, growth, and the energy cycle.
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- 1. sources include: green leafy vegetables, egg yolk, legumes
- 3. is essential to protect the cell membranes. It is a powerful antioxidant (prevents the destruction of cells through oxidation).
- 4. is essential for vision, growth, skin health, supporting the immune system, and reproduction.
- 5. is essential to the energy cycle and DNA repair.
- 8. is essential the formation of glucose and fatty acids (do use as energy), and breakdown of branched-chain amino acids (building blocks of protein).
- 9. is essential in amino acid metabolism, making DNA, formation of red blood cells, and cell growth.
- 10. is essential to be breakdown of carbohydrates, fats and proteins (our fuel sources).