Product Description

Biotin is an unnumbered member of the water soluble
B-complex family, normally only required in minute amounts. Biotin is used as a
cofactor of enzymes involved in fatty acid metabolism, gluconeogenesis, and
amino acid catabolism, and is essential in maintaining metabolic
homeostasis.1-4 Biotin plays an important role in metabolic functioning as a
coenzyme carrier of activated carbon dioxide in the TCA cycle (also known as
the Krebs cycle).3-7 In its coenzyme form, biotin synthesizes glucose from
non-carbohydrate sources, and synthesizes and breaks down certain fatty acids
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