How do vitamins work? - Ginnie Trinh Nguyen
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Vitamins are the building blocks that keep our bodies running; they help build muscle and bone, capture energy, heal wounds and more. But if our body doesn’t create vitamins, how do they get into our system? Ginnie Trinh Nguyen describes what vitamins are, how they get into our bodies -- and why they are so crucial.
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You are a lipid-soluble vitamin. Give yourself a lipid-soluble vitamin name. Draw a sketch of your complete travels through the body (include ingestion, breakdown, storage and excretion in your sketch).
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- Educator Ginnie Trinh Nguyen
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- Artist Assaf Benharroch
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