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Vitamin A

What is Vitamin A and Could You Have a Vitamin A Deficiency?

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What is Vitamin A …and what should you know about it? Vitamin A, also known as retinol, is essential to the health of your eyes as it produces pigments in within the eye’s retina. Your eye requires a precise metabolite, retinal, as a a light-absorbing substance that’s vital for scotopic vision – low-light vision. [Read more…] about What is Vitamin A and Could You Have a Vitamin A Deficiency?

Benefits of Vitamin A – How Does Vitamin A Help My Health?

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We all know that Vitamin A is good for us but what exactly are the benefits of vitamin A?

Before getting to all the good stuff about what Vitamin A can do for you, a more interesting question might be – ‘how was Vitamin A discovered?

I know you may not care about that, but the history of Vitamin A goes back a long way and I love it when history breeds wonderful discoveries, especially when it brings new health to those that suffered before the discovery was made. [Read more…] about Benefits of Vitamin A – How Does Vitamin A Help My Health?