Micronutrients are all vital to human health

  Micronutrients are all vital to human health because they are necessary for some biological processes. For this reason, Multivitamin-mineral (MVM) supplements are some of the most popular supplements on the market. Nutritional supplements are not limited to just MVMs though. Research a nutritional supplement of your choice, with the goal of determining what that supplement is supposed to do, and whether there is any evidence that it actually does that. Instructions You may choose one of the many examples of the Types of Nutritional Supplements in the chart below, or you may use that as a guide in choosing another one in which you are interested. Please note, you may not choose a supplement that is primarily just a macronutrient, or a micronutrient.   Examples: Type of individual Supplement that may provide benefit newborns single-dose vitamin K at birth, vitamin D drops while nursing infants and children depending on age, nutrition, and eating habits may benefit from a multivitamin or electrolyte solution pregnant, or may become pregnant iron, folic acid recovering from illness or surgery multivitamin-mineral supplement (MVM), caloric supplement (with or without added protein and/or other micronutrients) HIV/AIDS, wasting disease, drug/alcohol addiction multivitamin-mineral supplement (MVM), caloric supplement (with or without added protein and/or other micronutrients) reduced exposure to sunlight vitamin D vegetarians/vegans vitamin B12, depending on the adequacy of diet other nutrients as well (calcium, folate, vitamin D, iron, zinc) malabsorptive disease, disease of GI tract depending on condition and location, micronutrients, parenteral nutrition elderly multivitamin-mineral supplement (MVM)   I have also attached PDFs in the uploaded files section with more info on supplemental nutrients.   Once you have decided on the supplement you want to research, look into the following: What is the supplement advertised to do? For instance, is it supposed to improve your memory, defend against cancer, cure the common cold, make you grow taller? Every nutritional supplement on the market has a reason for being available. Summarize the claims for the supplement you have chosen, and talk about why people might be convinced to take that supplement. How is the supplement supposed to do what it is advertised to do (i.e. what is the biological mechanism)? If your supplement is supposed to improve memory, then how does it do that? Explain how memory works, the cells involved, the molecules those cells use to do their thing, and how this supplement will contribute to that process. Can you find any scholarly evidence that the supplement actually works? Or is all of the evidence anecdotal? I'm looking for actual studies here, published in research journals. Review articles that summarize the research are okay too. Even a case study would be okay. Summarize what evidence you find, either way (because sometimes the research says that it doesn't work, and that's okay too), and provide at least 2 citations. In brief: Determine a non-nutrient nutritional supplement to research. Explain what it is advertised to do. Explain the biological process to which is advertised to contribute. Cite at least 2 scholarly sources of information about how well it works.