You may not know or underestimate the importance of Vitamin B5, but it is essential for your health. You may have heard about Vitamin B5:
- You don't know how essential it is for your health;
- You need her;
- You think your levels are adequate;
- His vitamin B5 has never been tested;
- She has never consulted health professionals who value it or have even studied it sufficiently.
What are they?
- Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid), together with ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and cysteamine, are essential for the manufacture of CoA (Coenzyme A), which is extremely important for dozens of vital chemical reactions via the “acetylation” mechanism, liver detoxification and, above all, for fats and carbohydrates to generate energy.
- Pantethine, inside the body, dissociates into cysteamine and vitamin B5, and it is not yet known whether its additional benefits are due to the action of the whole molecule or the cysteamine + vitamin B5 it produces.
Why is B5 important (via CoA)?
- Everything that depends on Coenzyme A
- Increases energy levels and is considered anti-fatigue
- Improves the functioning of the central nervous system
- Improved functioning of various glands, but especially the adrenals and modulation of cortisol
- Known as Anti-Stress, for all this and for helping the body to cope better with stress
- Synthesis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and the hormone melatonin (the production of various peptide hormones depends on the acetylation mechanism, e.g. insulin, GH, etc.)
- Proper reading of genes (DNA)
- Together with Vitamin C in particular, it helps tissue healing and recovery and the health of hair, skin, nails and hair
- Synthesis of lipids, important for example for cell membranes, myelin in neurons, synthesis of steroid hormones, etc.
What about Pantethine? It seems to add to the above benefits with the greater potential to reduce triglycerides and help balance cholesterol.
General questions for you to consider:
- Stress greatly increases the body's consumption of vitamin B5, thus contributing to chronic deficiency.
- The levels of B5 considered to be “normal” are in fact merely “acceptable” and well below ideal, especially for a society that has stress as one of its most common and severe illnesses. In other words, almost all the “official” texts, websites and guidelines incorrectly say that most of us have a “sufficiency” of it, but this seems more like something outdated and incorrect (even the links researched for this text easily show this).
- Vitamin B5 is present in the vast majority of foods, but their processing, overheating or the addition of various chemical agents destroy B5 or change the molecule in such a way that it is not properly utilized by the body (so what is ingested because it is “present in the food” is often not absorbed and used as it should be).
- Most supplements that contain B5 or pantethine have too low quantities of it: in Brazil it contains between 1 and 10 mg of vitamin B5 (sometimes still as a pro-vitamin) and abroad up to 50 mg - however, the benefits observed with supplementation of it or pantethine are usually striking at doses ranging from 300 mg to 3g a day.
- Side effects associated with high doses are quite uncommon, although possible and of low severity; and even rarer in those who have good lifestyle habits along with their use - one of the bases of rational supplementation is to only perform it on patients who are really committed to improving their lifestyle (Access and understand: https://icaro.med.br/15habitos/).
- All the B vitamins play an important role in generating energy, but B5 is even more important as it is a fundamental part of the CoA molecule.
- As the B-complex vitamins are water-soluble, the body practically doesn't store them (and those who drink a lot of water can eliminate more of them) and so they need to be taken in sufficiently every day, which is unusual in most people's dietary patterns.
In a nutshell:
If tiredness, lack of energy, poor brain function and weak hair, nails or skin are part of your daily routine, you may benefit from supplementing with vitamin B5 or pantethine. Find out more!
- Never self-medicate: take this and other health information to your quality and up-to-date health professional to assess its suitability for your clinical case, before using any supplement, medicine or treatment.
Some of the links consulted:
🔗 https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81cido_pantot%C3%A9nico
🔗 https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/es/mic/vitaminas/acido-pantotenico
🔗 https://universityhealthnews.com/daily/heart-health/5-powerful-pantethine-benefits/
🔗 https://lmdietsportsnutrition.blogspot.com/2014/06/pantetina-bis-pantetina-ou-co-enzima.html
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