The Forgotten Vitamin that could reduce your chances of breast cancer..
How well do you know your vitamins and their benefits? Here, NaturalCures' expert, Diane Elms D. , CCI, CCII, homeopath and specialist in Drugless Cancer Care, shares her knowledge.
Vitamin A is the often forgotten anti oxidant, yet it is so important, especially for women’s breast health. I bet most of you could tell me what the benefits of Vitamin C are? Probably the same amount of readers could list off the benefits of Vitamin E as an antioxidant.
Now I am only guessing but probably very few would be able to list off the benefits of Vitamin A or what foods have the highest amount of Vitamin A in them...
Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds, that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids, among which beta-carotene is the most important. Vitamin A has multiple functions: it is important for growth and development, for the maintenance of the immune system and good vision.
Vitamin A is needed by the retina of the eye in the form of retinal, which combines with protein opsin to form rhodopsin the light-absorbing molecule, that is necessary for both low-light (scotopic vision) and color vision.
Vitamin A also functions in a very different role as an irreversibly oxidized form of retinol known as retinoic acid, which is an important hormone-like growth factor forepithelial and other cells.
Metabolic Functions:
Vitamin A plays a role in a variety of functions throughout the body, such as:
Vision
Gene transcription
Immune function
Embryonic development and reproduction
Bone metabolismHematopoiesis
Skin and cellular health
Antioxidant activity
