Vitamin U
Vitamin U is important because it stimulates the healing of damage (erosion, ulcers) of the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract. This is due to the ability of vitamin U to donate its methyl groups necessary for reparative recovery processes in the body. Vitamin U has an antiulcer effect, protecting the body from diseases of the stomach and duodenum. As well as an antihistamine effect, due to which it relieves the symptoms of food allergies, hay fever, bronchial asthma. Vitamin U has a lipotropic effect, like choline and methionine, protecting the liver from fatty degeneration, has an antiulcer effect on the gastrointestinal tract, and facilitates the course of allergic diseases. The human body is not able to synthesize vitamin U and gets it mainly from plant foods.
Deficit
With a prolonged lack of vitamin U, the aggressiveness of gastric juice increases, which can provoke the occurrence of gastritis, erosion of the mucous surfaces of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract, gastric and duodenal ulcers.
Excess
No negative consequences and pathologies caused by prolonged overdose of vitamin U have been established.
Sources of Vitamin U
Vitamin U is found in many vegetables and herbs, such as cabbage, fresh potato juice, carrots, celery, peppers, parsley and dill, green onions and asparagus, and tomatoes. Vitamin U contained in beets does not lose its properties even after boiling it.
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Vitamin U is well absorbed by the body. The only condition for its entry into the blood is an acidic environment in the stomach. If there is a violation of the acidity of the stomach, the absorption of vitamin U is sharply reduced, even if it is sufficiently supplied with food. It should be noted that some substances that bind acid in the stomach can still affect the absorption of this vitamin.