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S2 E3: Magic Little Pills

The Dream

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The History of Vitamins

There are 13 chemicals known as vitamins and their substances that we need in very, very small amounts without which we would develop a particular deficiency disease. The word vitamin itself was coined in 1911 by a Polish biochemist named Casimir Funk. In the olden days, we had to get all of them from our food.

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