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From the Ted Talk by Ginnie Nguyen: How do vitamins work?

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Once we furiegd the licsitgos of transport and storage, the vitamins are left to do the work they came here to do in the first place. Some, like many of the B Complex vitamins, make up coenzymes, whose job it is to help enzymes release the energy from food. Other B vitamins then help the body to use that energy. From vitamin C, you get the ability to fight infection and make collagen, a kind of tissue that forms bones and teeth and heals wounds. Vitamin A helps make white blood cells, key in the body's defense, helps shape bones and improves vision by keeping the cells of the eye in chcek. vmiaitn D gathers calcium and phosphorus so we can make bones, and vitamin E works as an antinaxiodt, getting rid of elements in the body that can dagame cells. flainly, from Vitamin K, we score the ability to clot bolod, since it helps make the poetirns that do this job.

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Once we _______ the _________ of transport and storage, the vitamins are left to do the work they came here to do in the first place. Some, like many of the B Complex vitamins, make up coenzymes, whose job it is to help enzymes release the energy from food. Other B vitamins then help the body to use that energy. From vitamin C, you get the ability to fight infection and make collagen, a kind of tissue that forms bones and teeth and heals wounds. Vitamin A helps make white blood cells, key in the body's defense, helps shape bones and improves vision by keeping the cells of the eye in _____. _______ D gathers calcium and phosphorus so we can make bones, and vitamin E works as an ___________, getting rid of elements in the body that can ______ cells. _______, from Vitamin K, we score the ability to clot _____, since it helps make the ________ that do this job.

Solution


  1. figured
  2. damage
  3. logistics
  4. vitamin
  5. finally
  6. check
  7. blood
  8. antioxidant
  9. proteins

Original Text


Once we figured the logistics of transport and storage, the vitamins are left to do the work they came here to do in the first place. Some, like many of the B Complex vitamins, make up coenzymes, whose job it is to help enzymes release the energy from food. Other B vitamins then help the body to use that energy. From vitamin C, you get the ability to fight infection and make collagen, a kind of tissue that forms bones and teeth and heals wounds. Vitamin A helps make white blood cells, key in the body's defense, helps shape bones and improves vision by keeping the cells of the eye in check. Vitamin D gathers calcium and phosphorus so we can make bones, and vitamin E works as an antioxidant, getting rid of elements in the body that can damage cells. Finally, from Vitamin K, we score the ability to clot blood, since it helps make the proteins that do this job.

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  1. ability
  2. antioxidant
  3. blood
  4. body
  5. bones
  6. calcium
  7. cells
  8. check
  9. clot
  10. coenzymes
  11. collagen
  12. complex
  13. damage
  14. defense
  15. elements
  16. energy
  17. enzymes
  18. eye
  19. fight
  20. figured
  21. finally
  22. food
  23. forms
  24. gathers
  25. heals
  26. helps
  27. improves
  28. infection
  29. job
  30. keeping
  31. key
  32. kind
  33. left
  34. logistics
  35. phosphorus
  36. place
  37. proteins
  38. release
  39. rid
  40. score
  41. shape
  42. storage
  43. teeth
  44. tissue
  45. transport
  46. vision
  47. vitamin
  48. vitamins
  49. white
  50. work
  51. works
  52. wounds