Supplement & Me... ...

Orange, grapes, bananas, pineapple, mangoes, star fruits, guava, strawberry, watermelon……

All these are the very common fruits that we eat in our daily life. Besides fruits, in our meals we always maintain balance diet such as vegetables, meats, seafood and so on. This is because other than the 4 main biomolecules: carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and nucleic acids, human body also requires various types of vitamins and minerals in order to keep our body functioning well. Therefore vegetables, fruits and the food we consume everyday are the sources where our body obtained the vitamins and minerals.

 

As we know, different vitamins and minerals play different role in our body. For example, vitamin A is good for vision, vitamin D will strengthen our bones and teeth, Vitamin E promotes healthy skin as it is an antioxidant, while Na⁺, K⁺ and Cl^- are the examples of minerals that help to maintain the electrolytes balance in our body.

 

Since I entered my college life, I have to stay away from home. I always fall sick as I seldom eat fruits and vegetables in my meals. Therefore, the doctor encourages me to take supplement in order to strengthen my immune system. So now, every day I am taking a tablet of vitamin C. Nowadays, Vitamin C is a very common supplement and we can easily get it and numerous brand of vitamin C are available in the market.

Recently, in my pharmaceutical chemistry lab class, one of the unknown organic compounds that we tested is Vitamin C or the scientific name is known as ascorbic acid. This gives me a good opportunity to learn and know more about what actually vitamin c is. It is commonly used for treatment of scurvy disease. Besides that, it has an anti-oxidant property so it can promote healthy skin. Hence, I think most of the girls will like it. *_*

 

Molecular structure of Vitamin C

Other than vitamin C, during my community pharmacy training, I am exposed to various type of supplement. One of the supplements that caught my attention is Natberry tablet. This supplement promotes good vision and help to relief tired eyes. So, it is very suitable for me as I always sit in front my laptop and look at it for don’t know how many hours to search for information, doing assignments, lab reports as well as watch movie. *_* So, I would like to recommend this supplement to all of my course mates especially those who always play online games hehe. 

In conclusion, even though supplement can provide us the vitamins or the minerals that lacks in our diet, I strongly feel that we should not totally depend on them. Instead we should try our best to maintain healthy and balance diet. So, with this we can always stay healthy and happy as well as enjoy our life.  *_*

 

Chemistry and Me……

Atoms, molecules, compound and elements, all these sound strange to those people who are not taking science subject in their study life. However, these are the most basic and simplest method for those science stream students. Chemistry, for me is a subject that full with definitions, calculations, equations, experiments and so on.

Still remember, my very first time that I have really exposed to this subject is during standard 4, primary school. At that time it is not specific yet, so I am learning the subject known as science. Till I became a science stream student during secondary school, then I just realized that this subject can be further divided into biology, chemistry and physic. From that onwards, I just understand what actually chemistry is and the different between each others.

What is chemistry???

Chemistry is the science of matter and the changes it undergoes. The science of matter is being concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions.

Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type of matter being studied or the kind of study. They are:

·        Physical chemistry

·        Organic chemistry

·        Inorganic chemistry

·        Biochemistry

·        Analytical chemistry

·        Neurochemistry

·        Pharmaceuticals chemistry

Since I have come across a few of this chemistry disciplines in my course, the subject that I preferred the most is biochemistry. By study biochemistry, I am exposed to the knowledge that which are closely related to our daily life, especially the foods we consumed every day. In deeper study and after understanding it, it gives me a signal to aware of our body health. Through biochemistry, I also have a better understanding on the advantages and disadvantages of taking excessive or lower intake of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals. Furthermore, I am having a better idea on their functions in our body and also the diseases that are due to excessive or lacking of these biomolecules that make up our human body.

On the other hand, sometimes I hate chemistry because there are always lab classes for all the disciplines of chemistry. Since I am a lazy person, so I hate carry out experiments and also do the lab report. I always complete my lab report in last minute. Most of the time, the results I obtained from the experiments are always different with what i supposed to observe. That’s why I wonder am I having poor lab skills or the reagents provided are always been contaminated??? If not, why I can’t get the exact result? Besides that, I hate carry out the experiments as the apparatus are always in a “good and clean” condition, *_*.

In conclusion, I hate chemistry as to study this subject, my brain need more space to remember and store all the formulas, equations, preparation steps, properties, identification tests and also the molecular structures. But at the same time I do like it too in some other ways. However, whether I like it or not, I still have to come across this chemistry subjects and remember them for the rest of my life as I have chosen pharmacist as my future career. Instead of hate it, I think better I start to love it now. As things always go like that, the more you love it, it comes more close to you and the more you hate it, it goes away from you. So friends, we have no choice, the only way is to study hard for it, KAMBATEH !!! *_*