# How do vitamins work?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Ginnie Nguyen
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ginnie_nguyen_how_do_vitamins_work)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Vitamins are the building blocks that keep our bodies running; they help build muscle and bone, capture energy, heal wounds and more. But if our body doesn’t create vitamins, how do they get into our system? Ginnie Trinh Nguyen describes what vitamins are, how they get into our bodies — and why they are so crucial. \[Directed by Nadav Arbel, narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [How do vitamins work?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ginnie_nguyen_how_do_vitamins_work/124081827070), 5 min (TED's player)