1934, Hungarian scientist jü rg discovered the components that have preventive and therapeutic effects on dermatitis, and named them vitamin B6. Since then, scientists all over the world have concentrated on purifying this vitamin from food.
1938, Gyorg and five other laboratories separated crystalline vitamin B6 almost simultaneously.
1939, vitamin B6 was successfully synthesized. Because of its anti-dermatitis effect, it is also called anti-dermatitis vitamin.
Vitamin B6 is the general name of three pyridine derivatives-pyridoxine, pyridoxal and pyridoxamine, which can be easily transformed into each other. Vitamin B6 is a coenzyme of many important enzymes in the body, which participates in physiological processes such as amino acid decarboxylation, ketone acid synthesis, sulfur-containing amino acids and fatty acid metabolism, and is an essential nutrient for the normal development of animals and the reproduction of bacteria and yeast. Women's estrogen and sebum hormone metabolism also need vitamin B6, so it is also called "female vitamin".
Vitamin B6 is a kind of vitamin with "cooperative spirit". It is combined with vitamin B 1 and vitamin B2 to complete the digestion and decomposition of food and help the skin. It cooperates with iron to prevent anemia; More than 60 kinds of enzymes in human body need its support; It is essential to take vitamin B 12; It is also essential in the manufacture of hydrochloric acid and magnesium. Like other B vitamins, vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin, which will be excreted within 8 hours after digestion and needs to be supplemented every day.
Vitamin B6 and iron are the main substances that make red blood cells. If vitamin B6 is lacking, even if people consume a lot of iron, people will still be anaemic. Therefore, in addition to supplementing iron, we should also pay attention to supplementing the right amount of vitamin B6.
Some people call vitamin B6 a "diabetes specific drug". For diabetics, the lack of vitamin B6 will hinder the production of insulin. It has been reported in France, Italy and Japan that diabetic patients with vitamin B6 below normal value are given 100 mg of vitamin B6 every day, and after 6 weeks, symptoms such as numbness and pain in limbs are alleviated or disappeared. Eating more foods rich in vitamin B6, such as brown rice, flour, eggs, cabbage and dried yeast, is also effective in preventing and treating diabetes.