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GMJ News > GMJ Briefs > Announcement: Vitamins Don’t Work Alone: How Nutrient Systems Keep Your Body Running

Announcement: Vitamins Don’t Work Alone: How Nutrient Systems Keep Your Body Running

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Diagram showing interconnected nutrient pathways for energy production, enzyme function, and antioxidant defense
Vitamins and minerals function as interconnected metabolic systems, not isolated nutrients. Understanding how B12 and folate work together, how magnesium supports hundreds of enzyme reactions, and why whole foods deliver nutrient combinations no supplement can replicate reveals the true biology of nutrition. — Photo by Daily Nouri on Unsplash (Unsplash License)
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Vitamins aren't a checklist—they're a system. B12 + folate work as a paired circuit. Magnesium supports 300+ reactions. Antioxidants regenerate each other. A gap in one nutrient slows multiple systems downstream. This is why whole foods beat supplements. 🔗 Read how nutrient networks really work on GMJ News.

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Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD, is Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian Medical Journal and Chair of the Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG). He is Professor and Head of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at David Tvildiani Medical University, and Secretary/Treasurer of the UEMS Section of Public Health. ORCID: 0000-0001-7609-4515.

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