Which vitamins/minerals are required to metabolise others and how?

I could be wrong, but I don’t think there are any that are needed in order to metabolise others.

Does this website answer your questions?
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/vitamins_their_functions_and_sources-health/article_em.htm

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/minerals_their_functions_and_sources-health/article_em.htm

mollwollfumble said:

I could be wrong, but I don’t think there are any that are needed in order to metabolise others.

Does this website answer your questions?
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/vitamins_their_functions_and_sources-health/article_em.htm

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/minerals_their_functions_and_sources-health/article_em.htm

Um?

what does metabolise mean if it doesn’t take that to require it?

roughbarked said:

what does metabolise mean if it doesn’t take that to require it?

Metabolise simply means “chemically change in vivo”. Vitamins and minerals aren’t (to my knowledge) chemically changed in vivo by other vitamins or minerals. So I don’t understand the original question.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

what does metabolise mean if it doesn’t take that to require it?

Metabolise simply means “chemically change in vivo”. Vitamins and minerals aren’t (to my knowledge) chemically changed in vivo by other vitamins or minerals. So I don’t understand the original question.

My question relates to the fact that without vitamins and minerals you wouldn’t be walking around while metabolising.

A vitamin is an organic compound needed in small quantities that cannot be made in cells. In human nutrition, most vitamins function as coenzymes after modification; for example, all water-soluble vitamins are phosphorylated or are coupled to nucleotides when they are used in cells. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a derivative of vitamin B3 (niacin), is an important coenzyme that acts as a hydrogen acceptor. Hundreds of separate types of dehydrogenases remove electrons from their substrates and reduce NAD+ into NADH. This reduced form of the coenzyme is then a substrate for any of the reductases in the cell that need to reduce their substrates. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide exists in two related forms in the cell, NADH and NADPH. The NAD+/NADH form is more important in catabolic reactions, while NADP+/NADPH is used in anabolic reactions.
Structure of hemoglobin. The protein subunits are in red and blue, and the iron-containing heme groups in green. From PDB 1GZX.
Minerals and cofactors
Further information: Metal Ions in Life Sciences, Metal metabolism, and bioinorganic chemistry

Inorganic elements play critical roles in metabolism; some are abundant (e.g. sodium and potassium) while others function at minute concentrations. About 99% of a mammal’s mass is made up of the elements carbon, nitrogen, calcium, sodium, chlorine, potassium, hydrogen, phosphorus, oxygen and sulfur. Organic compounds (proteins, lipids and carbohydrates) contain the majority of the carbon and nitrogen; most of the oxygen and hydrogen is present as water.

My question relates to the fact that without vitamins and minerals you wouldn’t be walking around while metabolising.

there is a difference between what the OP is asking and what you are asking. the op is asking if you need vitamins and minerals to metabolise minerals and vitamins etc. in the sense that you need oxygen to burn a fuel. whereas you are saying of course you need fuel because without it you wont have a burn.

Boris said:

My question relates to the fact that without vitamins and minerals you wouldn’t be walking around while metabolising.

there is a difference between what the OP is asking and what you are asking. the op is asking if you need vitamins and minerals to metabolise minerals and vitamins etc. in the sense that you need oxygen to burn a fuel. whereas you are saying of course you need fuel because without it you wont have a burn.

Yes that was what I was saying.

so yes, you do need to be alive to metabolise stuff and vitamins and minerals are part of that stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism

yes.