What Do Vitamins Actually Do? (Vitamin Lore)

This is the Vitamin Tierlist - vitamins play many important roles in our bodies and the biochemistry that vitamins do is pretty neat!

0:00 Intro
2:45 sponsor
4:43 A
11:34 B1
17:24 B2
19:56 B3
22:45 B5
24:30 B6
27:09 B7
28:24 B9
30:29 B12
31:47 C
35:48 D
38:09 E
41:38 K

*Team*
Writer/Producer - That Chemist (Joey)
Editor/Animator - ReformLabs
Research/Production Assistant - Exergonick
Technical Lead - Polygorg (Georg)
3D Systems Engineer - Robot Chicken

*Acknowledgements*
This video was made possible with help from several members of the TC Discord Community, especially Gocker (protein modelling expertise) & Ballerene (biochemistry expertise). Also @ExplosionsAndFire !
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*References*

Pathway information:
Relevant human Proteins found in RCSB PDB RCSB.org 10.1093/nar/28.1.235

[rilmar]

I have no background in chemistry. I know very little about chemistry. However, your videos are a joy to watch

[estellagrace]

Fun fact about Vit K - it is given routinely to babies right after they are born (usually via IM injection or occasionally oral supplementation) because they are naturally low in it and don't yet have the gut bacteria that produce it which as explained in the video can affect blood clotting. It reduces the rate of intracranial haemorrhage which can cause brain damage - particularly important for babies who have had more traumatic births (i.e. vacuum or forceps assisted births).

[Rileydog]

you’re putting out some of the best chemistry content on youtube right now. thank you.

[Verinius]

Dude I love how science content creators are using trendy Youtube stuff to teach science. I am easily baited into science videos with titles like "Vitamin tier list" "Are giraffes OP?" "Scientific theory iceberg"

[tristanlaurent]

I'm starting to like biology... and it scares me

[jreelite]

The colored functional group atoms makes my brain feel good. You did an amazing job with this. Excited for the one.

[deliriouscookie]

Now we need a sequel by Ex&F on how to make explosive vitamins :D

[PitBullSerbian]

Vitamin D deserves S tier, you undersold it's effects so hard. Maybe it's boring from a chemical standpoint, but from biochemical and endocrine it's not.

[jackal]

Speak more biochemistry, please. This video is so satisfying.

[hydrogenbond]

There's funny way to memorize the vitamins soluble in fats in Czech language - the word for butt (which contains fat) is "ZADEK" and If you take out the "Z" you get the vitamins soluble in fat - "ADEK" :D

[jamham]

"this is the more complicated part" is THE funniest shit. you lost me immeditaly the moment you started talking and, 5 minutes into an endless string of chemical names, you say "now it gets complicated"
Perfect. i love this channel so much

[maxr]

As someone who’s just getting off of accutane myself, I think understanding the chemical processes behind why my skin excessively dried out and my dozens of nose bleeds would be interesting to see! As always thank you for the effort you put into these videos!

[TehLiquid]

You can also get Vitamin-E from Eggs, just like Vitamin-B1, B2, B5, B6, B12, Biotin, Choline, Folate, Vitamin-A, D, E and K2. Along with (And I know these aren't Vitamins, but still..) Iodine, Iron, Phosphoprus, Selenium, Sodium and Zinc. They're literally a perfect food.

[ArkonArchive]

So basically: Eggs have everything you need.

[MedicosisPerfectionalis]

🤩 Thank you so much for mentioning my video! I appreciate you!

[chayaropsrirattanawong]

This some of the best-summarized versions of biochemistry that we (basic medical science ie. doctors, dentists, medical science, etc.) have to learn in my country for this particular topic. We just basically remember all the B vitamins as (1-PPP, 2-FAD, 3-NAD, 5-CoA, 6-transaminase, 7-CO2 transporter, 9-nucleotide synt, 12-Cobalt version of heme). Usually, we only got the text with some pictures but not the whole pathway (only the significant one) to study not to mention that every vitamin plays a role in understanding how our body works (you need to understand the basic pathway of metabolism first + heme synthesis). It is a fascinating topic and I admire how you presented it in an easy-understandable way for a topic that is mostly oversimplified to good-bad benefit.

[randompillow]

Just wanted to say these videos are amazing to watch for me as an undergraduate chemistry student. It introduces me to aspects of chemistry I haven’t learned about yet and helps me be somewhat familiar with some things before I even learn about them in classes.

[madboycal]

Your production in videos has gotten a lot better over time (not saying your prior videos are bad). This is S tier content.

[hevis]

One cool thing about biotin is its interaction with avidin. More specifically, the binding affinity of avidin to biotin is among the strongest non-covalent bonds. It's pretty much non-reversible without denaturing the avidin.

[sashboo]

I have said before how your videos are really improving, but this one is like none other before. The visual support is clean, the memes are funny and the information is easy to comprehend.
Amazing job!