Vitamin Names: Explained
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2015
- The list of vitamins can be kind of confusing, what with all those B vitamins and a random K thrown in. But every name has its story.
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Seriously, nobody thought that 'Vitamin X' would sound cool?
mahin alam Too similar to chemical X.
And we all know what happens when that's mixed with things.
sean sears Awesome happens.
sean sears powerpuff girls happen.
I would just hope I'd get the powers sans chromosome.
mahin alam They're saving that for the vitamin which mutates organisms as a side effect.
mahin alam Isnt that what the Hulk has. . .?
"Casimir Funk" sounds like an epic band name.
Sad is a world without Vitamin X. People should get on that.
***** When you start getting super powers you'll know it's because of Vitamin X.
Interesting profile pic design
Synchron Hey! I was first!
***** There is Vitamin K2 that was named Factor X. It's a fat soluble vitamin that is very important for calcium utilization.
***** Government covered it up. X-men are real. And it's not a mutation
For the longest time I was confused about Vitamin K and potassium - a vital mineral that has the symbol K on the periodic table.
I'm so tired I read the title as 'How The Vietnamese Got Their Names'. I don't even know...
Michelle Peralta I would watch that video.
Michelle Peralta Funnily enough, about 40% of people in Vietnam are named Nguyen, so what you thought would've made sense as well.
Michelle Peralta ...me too. And I'm not tired, so I have no excuse.
To [somewhat] answer your question, it comes down to when whole family-clans' survival on the face of the earth is at stake, they chose to change their surnames, and be non-creative about it. Somehow all the persecuted clans has only one surname in mind, and it's - you guessed it - Nguyen.
Michelle Peralta I don't know about the vietnamese, but i have heard the japanese use a process involving kitchen appliances and steep stairs...
"Hey we found a new vitamin."
Kay
"You want to name it that?"
Sure why the fuck not.
And this is how vitamin k's name was made in an alternate universe.
"Hey we found another vitamin, what's its name gonna be?"
Oh.
"You wanna name it that?"
...
"I guess that's a yes"
"Hey you, yes you, what's the next vitamins name gonna be?"
Why... (cut off) (was going to say Why should i name the vitamin? im just a janitor.)
"Okay then (starts writing it down)"
The vitamin y was created.
"Hey we also found a new vitamin, What do you want to name it?"
"I -"
"Vitamin I it is"
(Was going to say "I think you've come to the wrong person.")
Moonlitwatersofaqua "Here there! I found a new vitamin. Do you remember how we used to name them?"
"Errr...?"
"Alright, vitamin R it is!"
Rose Fae Hey a new vitamin has been discovered! What should we name it?
EH?
Alright, we are naming it Vitamin A!
I just listened to grade a under a complain about vitamin names before actually looking it up and actually learning about it.
I'm here because of Grade too
This is great, Hank. Having taken a college level biochemistry course, I can say that this is both accurate and very entertaining. Thank you for doing what you do!
Q: What's the difference between a Vitamin & a Hormone?
A: You can't hear a Vitamin...
***** Good one! LOL
***** But I can't hear a hormone either...
Because I always bind and gag them first.
?
JNCressey It's also just a reference to women in general, whose audible outbursts are usually the result of hormone imbalances. Unlike guys, who really just get noisy if no one feeds us for a while.
+JNCressey It's really nice you took the time to write out the phonetic transcription. It's also sad I can understand it.
i really enjoy learning the history behind the science, especially since some people consider science and history complete opposites.
also i got so frustrated with nomenclature while taking organic chemistry last year. even IUPAC didn't make sense sometimes.
Uncensored SciShow bloopers? Naughty science.
Rezkeshdadesh Where?
They mention it at the end of the video.
I love watching videos that make me laugh and teach me something at the same time. Keep up the awesome work on the channel! Everyone behind the scenes making it tick, I'm talking about you too.
This is something I've always wondered but never considered asking/researching. Thank you for the brain food.
yet another B vitamin amiright?
This has answered every question I had on vitamin naming and has helped a lot. Thank you Hank and to the people of sci show
Can we just take a minute to appreciate the majesty that is a name such as 'Casimir Funk'?
Really appreciate this explanation! I've always been curious about the naming of vitamins. You did a fantastic job clarifying it, as always. Thanks for the great content!
I love the way Hank just casually adds his frequent dose of humour and sarcasm to the episode
Thanks for explaining this, Hank. I've often wondered how and where vitamins got their names. Nice job, as always.
Liked this episode! Thank you for the information. Love learning something new everyday.
Wow, this was in my sub box for a while before I finally clicked, and it was worth it, way more in-depth and interesting than I expected.
I'm thankful for WADDING this episode of Scishow too Hank!
Vitamin K is just annoying when you're on blood thinners because you have to try to remember everything that contains it.
Primalxbeast You need to avoid Vitamin K when your on blood thinners? It counteracts the effects, right?
TheCometDog Yes. Blood thinners prevent clots by blocking the body's ability to recycle Vitamin K. If you just eat more of it then the whole thing is moot .
TheCometDog
You also need to keep your clotting time within a narrow range and if you vary the amount of vitamin k you get, it makes finding the right dosage of blood thinners to stay in that range hard.
Thanks SO much! Very informative and easy at the same time.
D is my favourite
Sxlina Nessa You'll get it later. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Randolph Carter It's good for 'bones'
Sxlina Nessa Guys. Stahp. Plz.
i like sunbathing
Sxlina Nessa Everybody loves the D.
this was the most informative with high entertainment value I've ever seen
I got an add for emergen-c haha
Last night I was thinking about vitamins and how they were named. This video was helpful
I've just finished learning about vitamins at university and their associated deficiencies and overdoses. I've always been curious about how they named all the vitamins, so thanks for making this video explaining it! I was laughing through most of it 😄
I could sure use some vitamin V right about now.
I think the correct vitamin you require is some vitamin D (งಠ益ಠ)ง
That was a lot more interesting than I expected
This was the best scishow ever :)
we really need the funk
ju4468ofTheNether We really need a Dr. Funk.
Taylor Roncevich We really need a Dr. Funkenstein.
When I was talked with my physics teacher she once admitted she doesn’t know much history. I reminded her that history plays a role in science just as much as science does history, and that you can’t really seperate the two cleanly. This is a good example of that.
Big thanks
Wow that seemed fun to make
I have been watching these videos for three straight hours.... I don't even have a class to use most of this...
+Jazzmen Hamilton i don't even go to school anymore. i've being whatching this three days straight
The circle in the (technically incorrect) model of the atom at the beginning fits perfectly into the annoying loading circle on my iPod when my iPod is vertical, so that it isn't in full screen mode. Not that it matters at all, I just thought it was slightly cool.
I'm writing something up on vitamins right now and this was incredibly helpful! Thank you for always presenting information in an easy to understand and engaging way. Also, I don't know if you guys come back to these to make updates to the notes, but the clinchem.org source is now leading to a 404 page. Have a great day!
Strangely this made me laugh so much
So apparently the American pronunciation of Vitamins is, grammatically, correct. Darn.
ThePowerOfJessa dont worry August is completely wrong, feel better yet?
None of the variations is 'wrong'. English spelling was mot standardized until after the U.S. was founded, that is, after it left the British empire. The Brits and the Americans went through several spelling reforms independently. Most of the spellings that stuck existed throughout the English speaking world before the reforms were attempted. Britain just chose different variants than the U.S. did. I remember reading something about a later attempted reform by the Chicago Times, or maybe the New York Times. That one was an attempt to simplify the spelling and make the rules more consistent. That is where 'thru' comes from in the U.S., although it actually existed with that spelling at least in Middle English. I think Shakespeare used it too. Thru is now used world-wide because it is easier to type on a phone and easier to remember for non-native speakers, much like u. I don't use these short-cuts myself, but that is because I am old.
ThePowerOfJessa It's a good thing there is no Vitamin Z, or they'd pronounce both of those words wrongly...
IKR!
There's a different pronounciation?
I love the fact that I know this now!
This RD loves this vid! Nice :)
That's one funky dude.
Eddie Izzard does a pretty funny bit of stand up in his show "Definite Article" about vitamins and the "Vitamin Naming Committee." I'm sure it's on CZcams somewhere, if anyone wants a chuckle or two.
Whetted my nerd-deficiency -- thanks. Loved this vid!!
Btw. LOVE the channel!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't forget to take your vitamins, especially vitamins that you lack like vitamins D, C and B.
When I asked about vitamins on school everyone looked at me as if I asked an obvious and trivial question that I should have known... 18 years later the sci-show is the first to not only answer my question but proof along that the answer was neither trivial or obvious, and that my classmates where curious-less idiots.
I had to sit through a vitamin commercial to watch this!
I love when Hank gets all confused and angry about the stupid things that humans do sometimes :D
love that shirt
This is why every 50 years we need to allow all the practicing 20-30 year old scientists to rewrite the hidebound nomenclature to reflect fact and promote ease of use rather than reflecting heuristic historical process and promoting confusion. Seriously, this irrational clap-trap is like a tumor growing through the lexicon. We need to excise it eventually in the same manner we fixed the measurement system.
Roy Riley ...or you could just call the vitamins by their "real" names. Thiamin, riboflavin, etc. Which is what most scientists do anyway.
I agree to an extent, but I wouldn't go so far as calling it a 'tumour'.
Ironically I find it can be easier to remember certain names if they have some history behind them.
We do have the IUPAC nomenclature anyway if you want to be ultra-pedantic when naming compounds.
Roy Riley It would be confusing if Vitamin K was know Vitamin F and Vitamin B2 was know vitamin G etc etc. Basically imagine walking into your store to buy Vitamin K supplements when it is really Vitamin B8 or something now... It would be confusing. We can't just solve all that in one shot, we have to do it slowly, and try not to get our own selves confused and accidents happen.
ALSO the fucking biological terminology is bullshit.. why can't they make IT SIMPLE?
I just started wondering, what does the different vitamins actually do/help with?
great great video
Get your nutritional science with vitamin Hank
Man, that is such a cool name. Casimir Funk, I mean.
Like really, who wouldn't want their last name to be Funk?
I mean, get a PhD and get called Dr. Funk? Or Prof. Funk? Or just be Mr. Funk?
Ms. Funk and Mrs. Funk don't sound quite as good though.
Become a reverend, and be Rev. Funk?
And if you want to do some quasi-roleplaying, you could be Lord Funk.
The possibilities are endless.
Lord Grand Funk maybe? ;)
President Funk
Did anybody else get an ad with Hank Green? The ad before it was for Emerson and he was in it! Lol.
So what's the deal then with retinol (provitamine A) and biotin (Vitamin H, sometimes known as B7 or B8)?
oh, "Funk" ! I totally heard something different on my laptop speakers :)
I don't why a have this phrase is german that once in a while will pop-up in my head that says in a very string accent 'Es gibt keine vitamin' (broken german fir there's no vitamin(s)) and I can't figure out where I picked it up from.
Also I like Hank's shirt
Casimir "Uptown" Funk was one smart dude..
Correction: 2'58" After heating up fresh yeast, it doesn't protect against BERIBERI. B-1 is thermolabile, while B-3 is thermostable.
I'm not satisfied with humanity until there's a Vitamin X.
Question: what's better/ healthier for you, music or sports?
Coincidentally, the name for Vitamin C works too because it's commonly found in citrus fruit, so the C could stand for Citrus.
what are IV's and whats in them ? (iv fluid)
That's a very nice shirt
Sarah Meismer - Cutting Hank off at the end like an Oscar winner who's been on stage a little too long.
Reminds me of Demetri Martin. "When they were naming vitamins they must have thought there were going to be way more vitamins than there ended up being. OK let's name these: Vitamin A, Vitamin B... Ok, man, slow down, we've got a lot to cover here. B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B12. Then they got to E and they were like 'We're pretty much done. We've got all those damn B's. This is embarrassing. Let's just skip to K and get the hell out of here."
"Too long, didn't watch" version of this video: "We didn't know s**t about vitamins when these names were invented, and people made short-sighted decisions about naming that we all have to live with now."
(SciShow should also do a video or two about how elemental particles got named - those are at least as bad as the vitamins!)
I have a question. I always wondered this and because this is a science channel I hope someone could give me the truthful answer.
Why the day after I masturbate I feel the same effects that were described in the hangover episode. I have never had a hangover but the day after I masturbate, I feel tired, sleepy and cannot focus and lack memory. However, this calms downs a few days after or so. I hear everywhere that masturbation is healthy, but I don't see anything healthy in the side effects.
Okay, so first off, thank you very much Hank, not only for the great videos and the impeccable abundance of knowledge that you can impart, but also for the inspiration for myself to create a CZcams channel to also impart the knowledge I know (of which there is apparently very little..)
I also have some questions, some of which I wouldn't be surprised if you had have answered, although, SciShow, I have seen many an episode and I don't think I have missed many, if so, a link by a fellow commenter will suffice;
Why, from an evolutionary sense ( I guess?) did animals develop sexuality where-as some plants be asexual?
Is there any advantage to intolerance (towards alcohol or drugs, the like)? I know there is a video on alcohol.. at least I think there is.. but since we have evolved from the dust we once were, is there an actual benefit to intolerance, and for that matter, why do other animals ferment fruit to become intoxicated (hint, they store it in their trunks... #bigbangtheory)?
Matt Stedman On crashcourse big history they talk about sexuality vs. asexuality developing.
By intolerance do you mean like allergies? They have a video on what causes you to be allergic to things I imagine it would be similar for alcohol and drugs.
The intoxicated animals I would guess is because their brains are similar to ours, meaning that anything dopamine inducing they would want to do. Since intoxication happens to cause dopamine it is basically a non-benifical or pointless side effect that comes along with all the beneficial things dopamine drives critters to do. Or else intoxication actually has some evolutionary benefit that I am not aware of.
Thank you :) I've wondered about b4 ... Before ;D
Arianna Luncford lame pun
Let me just say that casimir funk would be an awesome name for a band
How did vitamins get their other names, though? (Riboflavin, biotin, ascorbic acid, etc?)
Naiadryade Well I don't know for certain, but I can make an educated guess based on a couple of patterns. Riboflavin is found in flavoproteins, but I don't know which flavo-compound was discovered/named first. Retinol is used in the eyes for vision (retina), the -ol suffix comes from its chemical form (it's an alcohol). Looking at those examples it's most likely a mix of how they found it/what it does/its chemical composition and rules of chemical nomenclature.
So, I guess it's also easier to list letter names on a bottle rather than the other chemical or compound names that he mentioned.
Vitamin O was the O-riginal name for Carnitine until they found that Carnitine was produced in the human body. The more you know.
4:05 what about vitamin wonka?
Where does Vitameatavegamin come into this?
Do Mouthwash which contain high alcohol levels cause oral cancer ?
Wikipedia says there are five forms of vitamin A. Four of them can be transformed into the others... The fifth form also has different possible configurations. So it's even /5+ forms of vitamin A /
I have a bachelor's degree in Food and Nutrition, and am surprised I never learned this history. So interesting! Thank you!
This has been bugging me for a while. In the intro there is something that flies from the right side of the screen over to the left. I keep trying to pause it to find out what it is but it is very blurry. Is it just me or does it look like a dalek to anyone else?
No b4. I had often wondered why.
I definitely misheard Mr. Funk's name...
Please talk about Chromhidrosis.
What about Ω3? I've heard that's a thing too.
It's a fatty acid. There is more than one type of omega-3 (can't do the cool omega-sign on mobile), but it is essential in any form, and at leats its plant-precursor, alpha-linoelic-acid, has to be taken up through diet for the biosynthesis od DHA (dodeca-hexaic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenic acid) (sorry if names not 100% correct, learned this all in German) to ensure optimal health. Omega-3 and omega-6 are antagonists and should be balanced between 1:2 - 1:6 (om.3:om.6), but most western people have a skewed ratio of 1:15ish, which is good to keep in mind!
It's not a vitamin though and has no amino group, but an unsaturated fatty acid.
Also, omega-6 is essential as well and not inherently evil, but it is the antagonist to the anti-inflammitory and vasodilytical omega-3 fatty acid and most people get too much.
MyFiveSeconds So... Omega-3 is a vitacid? :3
There is vitamin B4 - choline. It has even RDI of 550mg daily. It wasn't vitamin in 2015 i guess.
What happens if I consume/produce too much of each Vitamin? (suggestion for a new episode and/or explanation under this comment)
Sounds like the Ionosphere, which consists of the D Region, The E Region, and the F1 and F2 Regions.
Does anyone know what kind of mic they use?
At least K has a name related to the discovery
what happened to Subbable?
What actually is pins and needles, what actually causes it?
You guys, should do a show on Neutron Stars.
A V-vitamin, that's just as bad as a B-battery, asking for them just makes the store clerk think you just have a stutter, Dimitri Martin FTW
Super coliders, Las Vegas. I'm sure you get the picture..
At first I was like "What, no mention of vitamin PP? That's comedy gold right there!"
Then I go to english Wikipedia for niacin and see that it's not a thing in English, apparently. TIL.
When you talking about vitamin C, don't forget the name: Albert Szent-Györgyi!
So... Is no one going to comment on the fact that Hank cast a disillusionment charm on his shirt?