Did You Know Just That Many Cancers Are Linked To A Vitamin Deficiency?
Vitamins - Production Methods
The History of the Vitamins
By Mary Bellis
In
1905, the first scientist to determine that if special factors
(vitamins) were removed from food disease occurred, was
Englishmen, William Fletcher. Doctor Fletcher was researching
the causes of the disease Beriberi when he discovered that
eating unpolished rice prevented Beriberi and eating polished
rice did not. William Fletcher believed that there were
special nutrients contained in the husk of the rice.
In
1906, English biochemist Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins also
discovered that certain food factors were important to health.
In 1912, Polish scientist Cashmir Funk named the special
nutritional parts of food as a "vitamine" after
"vita" meaning life and "amine" from
compounds found in the thiamine he isolated from rice husks.
Vitamine was later shortened to vitamin. Together, Hopkins
and Funk formulated the vitamin hypothesis of deficiency
disease - that a lack of vitamins could make you sick.
Vitamin
A
Elmer V. McCollum and M. Davis discovered vitamin A during
1912–1914. In 1913, Yale researchers, Thomas Osborne and
Lafayette Mendel discovered that butter contained a fat-soluble
nutrient soon known as vitamin A. Vitamin A was first synthesized
in 1947.
B
Elmer V. McCollum discovered sometimes around 1915–1916.
B1
Casimir Funk discovered in 1912.
B2
D. T. Smith, E. G. Hendrick discovered B2 in 1926.
Max Tishler and Robert Williams - Inventors of Synthetic
Vitamins
Max Tishler invented methods for synthesizing the essential
vitamin B2.
Niacin
American, Conrad Elvehjem discovered in 1937.
Folic
acid
Lucy Wills discovered in 1933.
B6
Paul Gyorgy discovered in 1934.
Vitamin
C
In 1747, Scottish naval surgeon James Lind discovered that
an nutrient (now known to be vitamin C) in citrus foods
prevented scurvy. It was rediscovered by Norwegians, A.
Hoist and T. Froelich in 1912. Vitamin C was the first vitamin
to be artificially synthesized in 1935. A process invented
by Dr. Tadeusz Reichstein, of the Swiss Institute of Technology
in Zurich.
Vitamin
D
In 1922, Edward Mellanby discovered Vitamin D while researching
a disease called rickets.
Vitamin
E
In 1922, University of California researchers, Herbert Evans
and Katherine Bishop discovered vitamin E in green leafy
vegetables.
Coenzyme
Q10
According to physician, Dr. Erika Schwartz MD in a report
called Coenzyme Q10 - The Energizing Antioxidant issued
by Kyowa Hakko USA, "Coenzyme Q10 was discovered by
Dr. Frederick Crane, a plant physiologist at the University
of Wisconsin Enzyme Institute, in 1957. Utilizing specialized
fermentation technology developed by Japanese manufacturers,
cost-effective production of CoQ10 began in the mid-1960s.
To this day, fermentation remains the dominant production
method around the globe."
In
1958, Dr. D.E. Wolf under Dr. Karl Folkers PhD (Folkers
leading a team of researchers at Merck Laboratories), first
described the chemical structure of coenzyme Q10. Dr. Folkers
later received, the 1986 Priestly Medal from the American
Chemical Society for his research on coenzyme Q10.
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