Brain Soda Podcast - Episode 24 - Vitamin Kanye: Take as Prescribed

Episode Date: July 15, 2023

On this week's episode we'll be discussing the early music career of Kanye West and his fall from grace. We'll also be talking about the essential vitamins your body needs and what they do!

What you gonna do, brother, It's the Brain Soda Podcast. I, as always, am your host Kyle, with my co-host and cohort, Brad. How's it going? Today, we will be discussing vitamins, but first Kanye West. Kanye West. Kanye West. Kanye West. All right. We're going to be talking about the early onset stage. Oh, Kanye West. Hold on. Hold on a second. Will you say early onset stage? Do you just mean like I mean this man is a f**k answer. Alright, we're not gonna talk about the

medius circus side show that this man unfortunately has become. As a matter of fact, we're gonna whine to that being the very, very end of this subject. The reason why is because Brad, for me, and you know this, Kanye was, I'm f***ing genius.

I mean, he's a man. I was waiting for this. To both of our guests. Yes, I agreed. Like his first few albums were amazing. And then like he kind of just went off the deep end. And then like it's not like anything against him, but yeah. But at the time you and many others were not that big

I'm Kanye. In the days of college dropout and late registration, Brad, I remember us bopping around hanging out in our hometown. And I was the sole proponent of Kanye West. That's true. That is true. Now, Kanye has a musical career from the earliest of moments that is kind of riddled in doubt.

I want you to think about the hip-hop phenomenon that occurred almost immediately before Kanye. Can you think of who it was? Give me a year. Well, 2004 is called Drop-O. Okay, they'll be past Eminem and Nelly, I would say. Pass that as well. You're missing one really, really big one. Wayne was probably about to blow up around the same time. I don't know. Oh, fours is the Carter one. So yeah, but no. Little John. He'd been out. Nope. Nope. Can't guess them. 50 cent. Oh, okay. All right. Yes, of course. Yeah.

So 50 cent, I feel like was in a lot of ways like the epicenter of Thugout rap right gangster rap hardcore rap because you had a guy who was kind of loud. Yeah for being shot nine times in blackballed within The record industry for a moment before Eminem and Dr. Dre pick them up. Yeah. With Kanye, you have a direct contrast. While there is bravado to Kanye West, it's not as if he's a street tough or anything like that. As a matter of fact, through the wire, I feel like it's such a perfect song to like start your career with or whatever else because he literally says in the moment when he says wasn't talking about

Cokin birds Was more like spoken word except he's really putting it down like But originally Kanye was a guy who was just really known for being a producer one of his most noted works would probably be H to the iso from the blueprint which he produced several tracks for it. Okay, I didn't know that. Yeah, that was like, that was probably like right before that. I'm assuming. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Maybe a year or two before I, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, I think like, I don't know Kanye, like, and it's kind of dropout. I would say it's probably one of his better albums. You know, like, again, my beautiful dark clothes. Bossy clothes. Yeah, it really is.

Yeah. But like, I, I, he's always kind of been like that. Like you were saying almost that like, what was me guy, I guess, you know, like, and it kind of like exacerbated over the years. But I get, I'm sure we're going to do that. But But yeah, but what you're, I mean, it is crazy. Like what happened to him, right? Because he got in a car accident, right? Is that what happened? So, yes, that is exactly what happened.

What I would say, and to be fair, and not to contradict your point, but I would say, through the wires, not a woe is me song. You know what I mean? Well, no, it's more like I broke through song for sure, but... Or to the extent of I survived song. Yeah, so... Yeah, but I mean, he has this like, I guess, like, I guess not woe is me, but like, you know, that's kind of in a sense that it's like, it's always like, you know, they're

after me, you know, right? I I guess I think that kind of came about post Taylor Swift. Yeah, I guess I can see that. Yeah And to be honest when you have the the identity of the rapper who is kind of changed an element of hip-hop culture you may be having like this conflict of identity and feeling of public put down or you know what I mean of public pushback. Let's kind of go into why Kanye may feel as entitled as he does to many things at many times. So this is a guy who was kind of kept in house at Rockefeller records

as a producer for the most part and nobody really wanted to get this guy out of the gate on label. They would push two younger guys in the young guns and Beanie Siegel and Freeway. All great talents for their time. Beanie Seagull and Freeway are great rappers overall in general. And when it finally came down to who was gonna push Kanye through the door, although he had produced a lot of good music for Jay-Z, it was Dame Dash. Later on when we talk about the Jay-Z aim split, Kanye famously went with Jay and Like was open enough to say like maybe it wasn't the most loyal thing for me to do. So who is Dame Dash? Dame Dash is just like he was kind of like the figurehead for Rockefeller records while Jay was the main star But I'm pretty sure they were both co-founders of it. But catch it. My point is to simply say like I Feel like Kanye went down the avenues he went down because what he wanted to be as a musician in a business man

Right like music as a business. Although as it is an art. Yeah, sure commercial form is it is an art, right? Yeah, sure. Commercial form. From that, I feel like Kanye has a brutal level of honesty and vulnerability that allows people to attach to him. And I'm going to be perfectly honest. Part of the reason why Kanye's, for lack of a better term, kind of heel turn, this outright change from the man who almost more than any other rapper taught me about like black experience, black culture and things like that is the guy who now like seemingly is very aggressively against elements of hip hop and rap as a medium, let alone all the racist and antithetical political ideals he has, right? Or has expounded recently. This subject to me was always one that was gonna come up, but it was very hard to pin down how it was going to come up. And it did in large part because of a

video from a guy named F.D.let Fire. And I believe the reason why is because to hear this guy articulate how you had this constant consistent bravado that you almost needed to sell or be taking seriously in the rap game. And Kanye, as an artist, from college dropout through, doesn't really have that, and embracing that and being that guy still, being one of the main, if not, the biggest rapper of his day is an important thing for a guy like me who had little experience in that culture, that world, other than what media would allow me to be exposed to, and what this guy kind of propagates in his actions and things like that. No, I, yeah, I see what you're saying. And like, honestly, like, what you're saying is kind of what I was getting to early early. I don't want to be like, well, what was, you know, I don't want to

like paint them in a bad pitch. Well, recently again, recently, he's paying himself in a bad pitcher. And we'll go. That's why we're covering early. Exactly. Right. Yes. But early Kanye, like, I see what you're saying, man, I really do. And like, that's cool. But like, I didn't know that he like kind of brought you into rap and everything. Like, for me, that was Eminem. Eminem. Yeah. No, yeah. He wouldn't be the guy who brought me into, I guess this is the best way to put it. If you ever listen to

knowledge rappers, we'll call them Eric quotes. So your Nas, your K.R.S. ones, uh, immortal technique. Yeah. Guys who were talking about sociopolitical elements of black and overall culture in their raps. Kanye, I think, again, like a lot of other things, divides either side to sit in the middle because while Kanye has superficial, bling, era raps, he also has songs about what it'd be like to be a regular black dude working at the gap. It's just okay, like I have a people, you know, like he says in the song, use me as a token blackie, you know what I mean? Like, wow, that's a deep thing for a 14 year old kid to hear. You know, wouldn't they know for sure?

Like I get that. And like, I don't know, I got exposed to rap earlier, like early't you know for sure like I get that and like like I don't know I got exposed to rap earlier like rap or early, you know like rap was one of my Like first genres of music. I think that listened to just because of I guess the people that I'm out with and stuff You know Because we didn't meet until we were about 14. I think that was when we yeah and Fear I I had early exposure to rap too. I remember being a little kid sitting in the room while my brother and his friends would sit there and rap

and W.A. off the album into a hairbrush. You know what I mean? Like, for sure I get that. Yeah, but like, I mean, so like, to me like, well, Kanye, by the time he started getting big and stuff, what was 2004 you said, right? When we were 14. So when I was 14.

Right, and Paul, his dropout would be the album that got him into mainstream rap and kind of consciousness of pop culture. But I would say it goes even further as far as being like a pop culture icon air quotes with graduation, things like that, but we'll get there. Well, yeah, to me, it's almost like Kanye is like two different people,

like from like pre-Kim K to post-Kim K. Like I don't know much about him after he got married to Kim Kardashian, other than like the crazy things here. But like before that, he was like, that like I guess, well, or the Taylor Swift incident. Was that that was before he got together with Kim Kardashian, right? It was. And I would say that is one of the bigger dividing lines as well. So that to kind of streamline it, right? So Kanye breaks out with college dropout. You have songs that Jesus walks, you have songs like through the wire, you have songs that in that

time were both inspirational and aspirational for a guy like Kanye West or people who would get into music like that because he's taking you know what essentially could be something that would only be played on like Christian radio with Jesus walks. And it's getting mainstream airplay on MTV and your local terrestrial radio station. Here's a guy who is taking a composer to help him make his second album late registration, another modern classic, another banger or whatever. Aside from touch the sky and diamonds from

Sierra Leone, the big like lead-off tracks from that album, you have songs like crack music with the game. Again, like a kind of speaking truth to power. You have a guy who's in that song. Also, I don't want to say like confronting the culture, but to a certain extent, like saying like, if we're looking at how we're viewed and we're making this music that's about guns and bagging up dope and whatever else, right? Like, are we doing ourself a disservice? I would say it was certain extent that is something Kaniy saying,

and to be fair, when you look at that drink champs interview. All right, I see you're saying it like that, and honestly, like, I have no, I'm not even going to go into like whether that's cool or not, because that's not my place to do that as white person. Right same, but I Will say that like there's tropes at every genre, right? Like you got to think like country and stuff like go another dirt road drinking a beer You know like I don't know that's just kind of the John like the way the genre is and it is big glamorized though That is a big thing this glamorizing that is something that that Kanye West has stood out. And kind of like why I like him. You know most of the rappers I listened to are ones that don't talk about that type of stuff because like that's what makes them

different. Oh, so you know like every rapper talks about you know, it's other ones that kind of make you think right that I get into. And that's be a little bit more specific because there are dudes who have been on trials in the last number of years for writing songs about trapping Rollin' around with guns and shooting people or whatever else. Yeah, yeah, there was that one Yeah, and like that is my point is that like now they they are literally trying to incarcerate people Off of being affiliated with someone who or rapping about doing X amount of acts, you know, illegal activities.

Here's a guy in Kanye West who's never really touching that. Again, a guy who kind of is atypical for rap at the time and I feel like it's very atypical today. So by the time we get to graduation and things like that, Kanye I feel like has gone to this elevated state of, you know, in his mind probably like a perceived element of excellence and to the rest of culture's mind what is ultimately arrogance and I feel like that becomes wholly prevalent when you get to like the

Taylor Swift situation and oddly enough he had done that like I think literally within the year before in Europe. Really? It's just super drunk, walked up on stage, interrupted, somebody else's acceptance speech. Sweet, was he drunk during the terror something? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. It's noted. Well, I guess we said something.

He is audibly drunk during the European version. That's the Europe cut, yeah. You know, I mean, but at the same time, here's a guy who had a a bet, verse 50, sent on which album will do better graduation or curta. You have 808s and heartbreak, this big departure, and that's when I feel like Kanye starts to lean more into his... Weirdness. ...interest more than being a hip-hop artist. And while that's fair, like you could make the Metallica argument

or anyone else for that matter, who deviates from... Yeah, there's another Watsky. One of my favorite rappers got into the same after his third album, which I just mentioned it. Yeah. You have an artistic license. You have an ability to change and do what it is that you do. Sure. Yeah, no. I mean, whatever you want to do, I mean, well, to a certain extent.

I would say where I wanted to really cap this off with and anything before this point in time is really the stuff I suggest you listen to, right? Watch the throne, the collab album with Jay-Z being like the very last thing. And you have my dark twisted, beautiful fantasy, whatever, that was, it is literally a hip-hop classic to this day. I love that album. Like seriously, that's one of my favorite albums.

And I don't regularly listen to high-gates, but that one album to me is just musical masterpiece. It was. Even like the music videos. Watch the music videos. Those are cool. Yeah. And I would say there is a reason why Kanye is who he is and it's allowed the respect that he was throughout all of the turbulent downhill slope into a straight out spiral that this man has made. And to me, it is a hard thing to not only swallow and accept, let alone even fathom that the guy who stood there and literally just said what he was feeling and says it on record. I'm on TV talking like it's just you and me. George Bush doesn't care about black people, post-Catrina, and I think even the Taylor Swift element. You know what I mean? Like I'll get up on stage and again speak truth to power quote now sits there and is allowing and propagating this terrible speech

against people when like this is a guy in the early early 2000s as a rapper who was reaching out to the rappers going no, don't use homophobic slurs, man, because that's the same type of thing they did to black people. Like, it's amazing to see the 180 guys, man. I mean, so sad. I don't know, again, I don't know if it was the Kim K thing. It just seems like that corrupted his brain somehow.

But he, okay, I think his bipolar, the passing of his mother, and the long time relationship he had had. So it's not so much shirts because of all the things that happened before. I think it's a Malcolm of things. I think his bipolar disorder has kind of now been treated adequately.

His inner circle has shuffled around many, many times within 2013 forward and like to be fair, His inner circle is shuffled around many many times within 2013 Forward and like to be fair. That's kind of when Kanye falls off You know, Jesus is probably not a terrible album life of pop. It was probably not a terrible album, but No, it's there. Yeah, they're they're kind of bad. Yeah Yeah, I've lost a lot of interest in what Kanye has to do and it's not that Kanye always had to sit there and make pop hip-hop or Soulbeats sure, but

Everything that he did after that was his whole thing. Yeah, it's almost as if the guy just didn't take his vitamins It's almost as if he didn't and he really should take those so vitamins cow What do you think of when you hear the name vitamin? Fred Blancstone But no I mean because like yeah back then like there was been fortified foods for a long time But that was the vitamin to take you know back, there wasn't like a million options to take every single vitamin. You know, it was your multi vitamins and all that. Well, I will say I also another thing too was prenatal. I remember one time my mom was taking prenatal vitamins and I'm like, mom, are you seeing someone or something? And then she had told me that she had gotten advice from,

I'm sure some doctor. Yeah. But I can't remember exactly who, and they were saying that, like, because there was so much that happens during a pregnancy, prenatal vitamins is one of the best multivitamins at the very least a woman can take. Oh, for sure.

Yeah, I mean, like, it's just pat, yeah, those are bad full of vitamins, for sure. And like, can dudes take them? Yeah. Yeah, because it's just, it's like, everyone needs the same vitamins. There's certain ones, like, I think pre them? Yeah, because it's just like, everyone needs the same vitamins. There's certain ones like, I think prenatals have like patchful folic acid, and I think they might have more iron and calcium in them. I didn't look at our prenatal specifically.

But in calcium and iron are technically not vitamins, we're all going to go through, you know, the groups, the vitamin A. There's minerals. Yes, yes. So there's 13 total. If you want to like talk about it, but there's other elements and all that like I said, like magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, whatever. Right. But vitamins are actually, they're divided into two groups. So you have your fat soluble vitamins and you have your water soluble vitamin. Okay, so we've talked about how like that divide kind of comes with the cellular thing. Yes. Before we talked about cell structure, but I didn't know that vitamins were classified like that. Okay, cool. Yes, so like that's kind of the reason why like certain vitamins, you don't really need to take regularly, you know, because the fat soluble ones, like you

kind of get in your diet most of the time or through, you know, the sun, which we'll go into later. The water soluble ones kind of, you have to take them almost daily to have them in your body and then you pee about. But that comes to food usually too, it's just that you have to take those regularly. You have to take all of them regularly, but those more so. And when I say fat soluble and water soluble,

I mean that the fat soluble ones, you know, mix with fats and oil, and they're stored in your fats in the body, you know? So they're stored, whereas the water soluble ones, they mix with water that like most things do, and those just get flushed out, right? Because their water is just constantly moving throughout your body.

Right. The fat soluble ones are vitamins A, D, E, and K. And the water soluble ones are vitamin C, and then all of the B vitamins. So really quick, why is it that vitamin B? But why is there like B12? You know, I kept looking that up, and like it didn't get really give me a clear answer,

and I know there's a clear answer for it. But I think the bet, like really what it is, is that like, okay, so like vitamins were starting to be found in like the 19th century and stuff, right? So somebody found vitamin A. Hey, this is the first vitamin A and then like a bunch of other people found vitamin B, but it wasn't vitamin B. So like they just, and like, well, I think it's also the B complex. So like it's a bunch of water soluble vitamins, right? Versus the fat. Right.

It's kind of, they're using different ways too. Like, you'll see as I go through them, like how they're used differently. Okay. Like, they're more for like immediate things versus like, you know, long-term stuff, kind of in a way. Yeah. Okay.

Vitamin B12 actually though, is the only water soluble on that stored in the liver. So that one actually does stay there for years. So I mean, there is one in like, vitamin B12 isn't a lot of stuff. Yeah, we'll talk about that a little bit later. So like a lot of deficiencies and stuff can be caused by vitamin deficiencies, you know, like, or, you know, health problems and stuff like that.

Right. And sometimes they come about in slow and long terms. So you don't even realize it until like, it's been years, it's just that your diet doesn't have this, it's a certain vitamin. It doesn't happen so much in America because we have the fortified grains. Like really most of our bread and cereals

and even milk and stuff are fortified. We add vitamins into those for that exact reason So we don't have like, you know, vitamin-efficient people Exactly. Yeah, yeah, I mean, but there's like like a lot of foods there naturally High in it obviously, you know like whole grades and beans lentils fruits and vegetables and all that I'm like and well, we'll talk about which ones are good for certain vitamins and whatnot But so we'll start with vitamin A. I'm starting at the beginning right? Vitamin A is actually, it helps form and maintain healthy skin, bones,

soft tissue and mucus membranes. It's kind of like almost for your ectoderm, which is like your outside layer, and your teeth are part of that, and your skin obviously. But so what vitamin A does is it helps support your immune system and your vision and your reproductive obviously. But so like what Vymane does is it helps support your immune system and your vision and like your reproductive health even and also like fetal growth is really important for that. And it encompasses like many related compounds like retinol, retinol,

retinionic acid and like those are the things found in animals. But there's like carotenoids, which you may have heard of beta carotene possibly Yes, so that's one of them right that's a bite of that is a vitamin A Yes kind of like the bees, you know, there's a bunch of different vitamin A's too And that that's like in carrots, right? You know that and the I was gonna say I know it from a skid about carrots Exactly. Yeah, you know you your beta carotene helps your vision, right? Yeah, I guess it's also been shown a faint cancer too. Like so, like they found that people that had high levels of alpha carotene and beta

cryptosanthinin had a 46 and 61% lower risk of dying from lung cancer than non-smokers who had the lowest intake of those nutrients. So like, if the people that took the most, the smokers, or had the most vitamins, had a lower risk than the people that didn't eat any of those vitamins and weren't non-spokers. So yeah, just, you know, I guess if you're a smoker, just eat lots of carrots.

I'm not a doctor. Now, all medical, like some patients, I guess, would the thing with themselves. Now the literal going to solve that. But I mean it's also critical to placental health and development. So like the placenta, you need a lot of vitamin A for that too. So like and this, like a lot of vitamins are like important. Again, prenatals, mothers need a ton of vitamins to make a baby.

Obviously, you know, like it takes a lot for a mom, for a person to create a human being. They gotta like create something in their body, so they're gonna need extra stuff. That's why the pre-dais are so important for that. But deficiency in vitamin A is like pretty rare in the US, you know, but it can cause like blindness in children. And it's actually the leading cause worldwide of blindness in children, unfortunately.

It also like increases the severity of measles in diarrhea too. So it can be pretty bad. A lot of these deficiencies come about poorer countries and stuff like that, like in Africa or whatnot. But hopefully it gets better. I mean, things are getting better. I think in the world, overall, yeah, different subject. It's also found that it raises the risk of anemia and death and pregnant women as well if you have like a deficiency in vitamin A. So to go on, you got your vitamin C, right? Vitamin C I think is people know that the most out of all the vitamins, probably C and D I would say. Because it's you know it's the one that helps your immune

system and stuff. Yeah. Honestly, and like most of what I saw, well, it's also called the Scorba acid. Actually, it's like, it's an acid, which a lot of these are. I see that a lot of things. Exactly. Yep. So, yeah. So, what it really does is like, protect cells and skin and blood vessels and bones and cartilage and all that stuff. So, like, it is a protected, I guess, you know, like, it does help protect things. Like, it does play a role in controlling affection and healing wounds too. So like, that's something I didn't know. It's like the wound healing. You know, I always heard about it like protecting

like immunity and stuff, but yeah. Yeah, that's pretty cool. So it's needed to make collagen. And collagen is kind of like, it's a virus protein in your body that like connect, it's part of your connective tissue, right? It's like, what keeps all of your stuff together from like, stops you from, you know,

all your stuff from falling apart. And it helps improve the absorption of non-heem iron and found in plants too. So like that's like things found in like leaping reeds and stuff like that. And you need that to like help the iron in your body, right? The blood, blood needs a lot of iron, right? Like it uses iron to attach oxygen to it.

So that's important. The deficiency though, is one thing that's like, people know a lot of is that that's scurvy. Scurvy, yes, exactly. You know, that's played the pirates, plagued them for years. But, did you know what happens when you get scurvy though? It's no, it's way worse than that.

Like, I had to say, I think, why is this over one It's no, it's way worse than that. Like I had to say, I take blindness over one hand. No, it's not that, right? You don't get lesions on your skin. You do. Oh, okay. So is it like a laparacy? A little bit. To go into it, scurvy causes skin spots

that are caused by bleeding and bruising like within your body from broken blood vessels. And it can cause your gums to start to swell. And that makes your teeth eventually fall out and your hair falls out. And like you have these sores like you were saying that just won't heal because you need that collagen to be able to like form your skin. And eventually you die, obviously, but like it's just one of the most gnarly vitamin deficiencies I think yeah but a minor deficiency though causes

like fatigue and like you can have a higher deficiency because of the you know the whole not even a mining. But yeah so vitamin D also known as calciperol that helps absorb calcium which is actually one of the main building blocks for your bones. You need lots of calcium to build bones. And vitamin D is kind of special because it's not only naturally found in foods, but your body can make it through UV rays. Exactly.

You hear about that especially up in the Midwest. We got those sad syndrome or whatever. Seasonal affected disorder. The sun itself will make your body produce vitamin D and it triggers the synthesis when the UV rays actually penetrate the skin. So if you get enough sun, you don't really need it, but a lot of people are like,

sun deficient, obviously. Like we've sitting off as a stuff like that all day. Make sure you get penetrated by the sun. Exactly. But it also helps with like preventing like muscle cramps and spasms and stuff like that. Okay. Yeah, it's involved in modulating a lot of cellular functions. So you need vitamin D for cell growth and differentiation and if optosis, which is dying.

But it's used to catalyze a lot of stuff. Not maybe it's not the catalyst, but's like one of the binding agents for that. But not a lot of foods contain vitamin D, which is why you need to kind of need the sun and all that. The flesh of fatty fish have it and like fish liver oil and stuff like that, like the Omega three acids, which I don't think is a vitamin

because I do not see that in my research. So that must be something else, a nutrient. Right, Yeah. Some mushrooms actually though do have elevated levels of vitamin D2. And that's some of the growers will use UV lights to make it increase because they are able to make the vitamin D like we do. It's kind of interesting. It's just UV though. Yeah. So then you'd be like just have like a secondary bull.

Okay. That's what I was going to ask. Do you have a secondary bowl then beside the first? Well, they have both. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, some like, yeah, I've seen greenhouses that use like red lights and UV lights, purple lights and whatnot to get different effects from a growth planet. So like, by Mindy deficiency,

typically shows like symptoms of fatigue, achiness, depression, weakness, not sleeping well. It's like, you know, the sad. So like, you know, up again in the middle of last vitamin E, that acts as an antioxidant and helps protect cells from like damages stuff by free radicals. Like that's what antioxidants do, you know. Okay. Radicals are like things that are produced from the breakdown of foods and they can, you know, mess up your cellular.

I was gonna ask water free radicals because that sounds like the coolest new band this summer. There is, I thought there was a free radicals. I think there was like a one-hit wonder, look them up. I think that's new radicals. That's new radicals, yeah. That's a good song though. You do, you do. But by many it helps boost the immune system,

like to fight out bacteria and viruses, obviously. But it also helps widen the blood vessels. And it keeps blood from clotting or like blood clots and whatnot, cause it widenes and making them bigger. I didn't know about that, that's kind of cool. That is good. Yeah, yeah.

I guess you do find it in like leafy greens and stuff like that. Everybody knows citrus, but I want to say what peppers? Yes. You're right, Kyle. That is right. Thank you for remembering from our previous episode. They are super high.

Yeah. E-bunch of peppers. You don't need to bleach the citrus. I mean, citrus is good too, but peppers are great as well. Wasn't there citric acid in peppers though? Maybe. I'm sure. Yeah, I think the citric acid is part of the crepe cycle.

So I'm sure there is. But anyways, vitamin is actually naturally found in like a lot of different vegetable oil, all sorts of stuff like that. Like, some for some far-received oil, safflower oil, corn and soybean oil have a little bit of it too, but like vitamin E's in a lot of things. Like you see it and like added to like fortified and stuff. So you don't got to worry too much about that. I'm nuts also. Like especially like peanuts, hazelnuts, and almonds have it too. You know, some of our seeds obviously. So yeah, the deficiency is really rare at healthy people. But like people that have like diseases that might like make digesting fat hard, it can be a problem. So like people with the Crohn's or cystic fibrosis or like certain genetic disorders, they do have many deficiencies. And when that happens, it can cause nerve and muscle damage.

So I mean, it can be kind of hard. Yeah, you can like loose feeling of your arms and legs and stuff like that. So yeah. But so vitamin K, that one's, I don't think many people think about the only thing that I really hear about it is the shot that babies get. And the reason why they get the shot.

Oh, yeah. Yes. is the shot that babies get. And the reason why they get the shot. Oh, yeah. Yes. And I know like, man, I'm, okay, you know how I'm saying? I don't wanna get political, but like, take your vaccines and give your babies the shots. Like seriously. Are you seriously not gonna like protect your baby?

Could because you think you're like some Google research warrior. I'm sorry but no give your babies a chance to live the best healthiest life they can and that's by giving them the vaccines. Sorry. That's be fair about it. No I'm gonna come at it from a little bit of a different angle too and say like a lot of the anti-vaxx hysteria in its infancy actually probably started with new age liberals due to hate big farmers so much which you know what like, same bruh, you know what I mean? Exactly, yep I agree, but...

But... ...exec some out and oregano being like... I mean I can agree with it like sure, sure, certain new ones, like, well, even the COVID, whatever, I get it, like, I'm not gonna get into that. But like, ones that have been tested for a long time, especially like a vitamin K shot is not a vaccine. But like, they need that.

Like, like vitamin K, it's hard to get for them at birth because it doesn't really go through the breast milk and it doesn't pass the placenta. So like, they're low in it. And one of the very important things that Vitamin K does is it prevents bleeding. So like if you don't give the babies the Vitamin K, they can have bleeding on their brain and stuff and do it.

So like you really need to take this important stuff. But I'm just fearing the point that you made where like, dude, I'm dead serious. There were videos that by the point that you made where like dude I'm dead serious there are videos that by the time that that shot was coming out are 10 years old about measles and rubella coming into public schools because of again new age idiots thinking that they know more than like hundreds of years of vaccine science. Yeah exactly. No like and like, and yeah, like, we're not talking about vaccines this episode, obviously, but like, it is something like, because vitamin K is always like, that's

it's locked in with the anti-vax crowd for some reason, but you know, it prevents blood clotting and it also helps build bones. Like, so it's very important and like, please, just if you know, if you have a baby, please get the shot. But to kind of wrap things up, the vitamin Bs, like we're going to go through these kind of quickly, because there's a bunch of them. And like they do a lot of the kind of the same thing, like in a sense, like they gave, it's a lot of energy things, you know, like metabolism, and like give you energy and whatnot. There's B1, which is also called thiamine, helps the body change carbohydrates and energy. So that was to break down the carbs and bring it down to the ATP

that I was telling you about with the cells. But it also plays role in muscle contraction and the conduction of nerves signals and stuff too. So I mean, it's pretty important, right? You get your B2, which is riboflavin, which a lot of these you probably see. That's what I was gonna say by this. Specifically, I've also seen.

You'll hear more. Okay. Yep,, exactly and that works with other B vitamins right man. I asked why isn't that you would give it the scientific name on the Active-ingredients labeling of a product versus just B12 be whatever It's probably just like common naming systems, you know, like everybody knows it is riboflavin. They don't really know it as B2, you know, so they just kept it calling it riboflavin or riboflavin, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. That's probably what I'm thinking. That is it's important for body growth and the

production of like red blood cells, you know, which a lot of them are as well. But like B3, which is also called niacin, which I'm sure you've heard of that. Other than B3, that helps maintain like healthy skin and nerves, kind of just like, fine. It also has triglyceride lowering effects at higher doses too, so it's used for fat suppression and stuff like that. It helps in the digestive system and AIDS and metabolism too. You got your B5, right? I don't know why there's not B4, but it's a B5, and that's a pantheuthanic acid and that helps with

metabolism, kind of like B1. It's required for the production of fatty acids too. So like, it's pretty important and it plays a role in like making hormones and cholesterol and B7 or IK, biotin. That also plays kind of a similar role. Yeah, man. These things like, they seem so diverse and specialized but they're all under that B banner. Yeah, there's a bunch because I yeah it's the B complex whatever you know there's 12 total but there's only a couple more. Yeah. Does that mean like on a chemical level or whatever like if you were to look at them under a microscope or break them down. The molecules. Yeah. Like are they

extremely similar but just okay? Nope. Okay. No, not at all. So why is it the B complex? Yeah. I don't know. That's why I kept looking and it's just like, I just kept seeing like, oh, this is the B complex. Like I couldn't find a clear answer. Like I mean, it's the water solubility of it, I think.

You know, is that it's, they're not fat soluble. They're water soluble. Oh yeah. That's right. Yeah. So yeah, so you're B6, which is pyrodoxin. That helps form red blood cells, maintain brain function. It also helps make anybody, too.

So that's pretty important, obviously. And breakdown proteins, and it keeps blood glucose levels in normal ranges. That one, I guess B6, you hear about a little bit. You hear as B6, not as pyrodoxin. Right, but I can't even think of where I'd hear B6. I mean, I guess in some like, health food aisles. Yeah, it helps me stuff you see B6 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but there's also B9 which you usually hear as folate or folic acid folic acid

Yep, and that's yep, that's the man made version though Folate is is the natural look hurry. Yeah, but it's important though, man It helps grow tissues and like it has roles in cellular function too. I mean, even I would say they're all, like, they're all important, obviously. Yeah, I'm just gonna say we've talked about how like nobody really needs to intake vitamin C,

like I feel like people do around cold season, things like that. Right, yeah. But it's because of the fortified foods that you've caught. Exactly. Just eat certain things and you'll be fine. Eat a lot of vegetables. A lot of vegetables, you'll be good.

Lots of things that are green, eat colorful. Make sure your plate's colorful. That's the best advice, I think, is to make it colorful. Look at the cracks in polygons. Exactly. Exactly. Lots of color all over. Yeah.

Yeah. Cool. So yeah. Just a couple of last ones. So be like folate or folic acid It works with vitamin B12, which is the last we're gonna talk about here and also vitamin C and it helps break down and Use and create new protein. So like it's that's pretty important. You know folate like and that's in prenatal vitamins Right. That's a very important thing on prenatals is the folic acid and going back to 21 that's a really important making those proteins.

Exactly. I mean, that's everything. I mean, all proteins, yeah, for sure, yep. And also, I have some red blood cells from anemia and all that. And produces DNA, air helps produce DNA. You know, folate is pretty important. And by the end of the 12th, or also called cyanocobalamin, I hope I said that right. That's used for metabolism. That's how you see that and all like the energy drinks I said that right. That's used for metabolism

That's how you see that and all like the energy drinks and stuff like that. That's like this main thing But it also helps with full aid like that. Yeah, but yeah, I was good to say that's one that I see Unfortunately a bit too much Yeah, man, that that's all the vitamins You know like I just wanted to go over because I'm like what are all these vitamin? What do they do? You know, so right it was just I wanted to share it and that's all the vitamins. You know, like, I just wanted to go over it because I'm like, what are all these vitamins? What do they do, you know? So... I wanted to share it, and I hope all the people like kind of enjoy just like just finding out

what the heck like they're made of, where they come from and what they do. No, I actually really enjoyed it. I thought it was really interesting. And before we leave today, we'd like to thank you for joining us. We would like to invite you to check us out on tiktok youtube facebook and instagram for Brad I'm Kyle and we will see you again see ya Thank you.

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