Vitamins, minerals, trace elements

Vitamins are co-enzymes. Co-enzymes help enzymes to transform substances in the body. Most co-enzymes are composed by the body. Our food also contains co-enzymes. And because evolution is all about specializing and efficiency, the human body lost the capacity to produce the co-enzymes that human food abundantly contains.
The total loss of production capacity does not include all vitamins. Vitamin A, B2, B3, B5, B8, K2 and D for example can more or less still be composed in the human body. Animals consuming little vitamin C can also compose vitamin C, but humans, monkeys and some rodents consuming fruits can not.

Neither animal nor plant can compose minerals or trace elements, but every animal and plant has evolved consuming/absorbing the food/nutrients its environment offers. What the environment offers, always matches nutrient requirements of the animals that live in that habitat. Our natural foods therefore always contain all the minerals and trace elements we need.

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