Most such vitamins are fat-soluble, and one's body absorbs them differently than water-soluble nutrients. Where water-soluble vitamins dissolve in water and are mostly eliminated in one's urine, ...

For example, water-soluble vitamins absorb differently than fat-soluble vitamins, and others are stored in the body. There are two main types of vitamins: water-soluble (all eight B vitamins and ...

There are currently 13 recognized vitamins. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat-soluble. The body stores fat-soluble vitamins in fatty tissue and the liver, and reserves of these vitamins can stay in ...

“We definitely want people to be cautious with [fat-soluble vitamins] because they will just build up in the system, and those are the ones that can cause more toxicity in excess,” Dr ...

But the custom of naming vitamins alphabetically in order of discovery continued. Today four fat-soluble vitamins—A, D, E, and K—are considered essential to human growth and health.