VITAMIN B5

Pantothenic acid, generally known as vitamin B5, is a water-soluble B vitamin. All animals require pantothenic acid to produce coenzyme A (CoA), which is required for fatty acid metabolism, as well as to synthesis and metabolize proteins, carbs, and fats in general.

Functions:
- It helps in converting Serotonin, the stress-coping hormone, to melatonin, the hormone that makes you sleep at night.
- It helps in making Hemoglobin. This is what carries oxygen to your muscles and helps you feel energized.
- It helps in cleaning Ammonia. When you eat protein, the stuff in meat and beans that builds your muscles, you generate a little ammonia. If you don't get rid of it, you smell funny and feel really tired.
- It helps make the mucus that moistens your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, genitals, and internal organs.
- And there's a few things we think it MIGHT do: help prevent acne, reduce pain in rheumatoid arthritis, help wounds heal faster, and maybe, maybe just maybe, keep our hair from going gray.

Sources:
- Pantothenic acid is so easy to get from food that you can't become deficient if you eat natural foods. You can't even become deficient by eating junk food.
- Highest bioavailable sources are liver, nutritional yeast, chicken, red meat, cheese, shiitake mushrooms, eggs, avocado, salmon and caviar.

Requirements:
- The official recommendation is 5 milligrams per day (mg/d) for most adults, 6 mg/d for pregnant women, and 7 mg/d for lactating women.
- We recommend shooting for 10-12 mg/d.

Supplementation:
- We don’t recommend supplementing Vitamin B5 as high doses of it can hurt the absorption of Biotin, or Vitamin B7.