April H

Do vitamins exist in our bodies origionally or do we put them there with the things we do and eat? Example, vitamin C, we are taught from an early age that we can eat an orange and gain extra Vitamin C, or maybe that vitamin C helps us fight off sickness or disease, but is vitamine c already in our bodies?

I have a friend that takes like 20 'organic or herbal' vitamin pills daily and she tells me how she needs them to build her immune or fight of sickness, or that it replaces the vitamies that she looses during the day...which may be true...but do we already have these vitamines in our system naturally or are we putting more foreign matter in our system by taking vitamines each day?

I understand that things are labeled Kosher when met by Jewish law guidelines, but what exactly are those guidelines and what is done to foods to make them kosher?