For so many years the word fats has gotten such a bad rap and it should when you consume too much

You can cause weight gain cause all kinds of metabolic issues throw your cholesterol off the roof

But at the same time you do need to have certain amount of fats

to also maintain certain body processes, as well as maintain your lipid bilayer of every single

cell in your body, and more importantly, you you needed to absorb fat soluble vitamins.

That's right. In this series of vitamin discussion we've actually completed all of the water-soluble ones and you now know why happy hours at 5 p.m.

At the exact same time we would be doing you a disservice

if we didn't talk about vitamins A, D, E and K.

For the vast majority of your patients patients they're probably getting the right amount

each day. Except for Vitamin D. It seems like nobody gets the right amount and we can never

seem to get it right. So I Dr. Nachetzlon-Paul, your friendlyabered internist and gastrantrologist this week are going to be talking about the fat-soluble vitamins,

so let's kick it off. Now for the purposes of the alphabet we're going to begin with vitamin A.

There are multiple forms of vitamin A. There's beta carotene, alpha carotene, and even retinels.

And I know many of you when you hear retinels you start thinking of skin improvement.

We're going to talk about that.

In fact, it's the most active form of Vitamin A.

You can find Vitamin A as a retinal

in numerous foods like liver, kidneys, egg yolks, and the beta carotene that's supposed to help your eyes

is found mostly in green leafy vegetables and carrots.

That's why Bugs Bunny has such amazing vision.

In fact, Vitamin A prevents zeraphylmia, which is going to be abnormalities in

the cornea and conjunctival development. In addition to that, it helps with photo transduction,

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