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  1. Biotin is a water soluble vitamin, known as Vitamin B, and excreted in the urine. There is no real toxicity as excess is just excreted.
  2. Food sources are egg yolk, wheat, liver, dairy, sweet potatoes, and legumes such as soybean. But the biotin in food is protein bound and gets released by an enzyme.
  3. We can manufacture biotin in the small intestine from healthy gut bacteria, so the only source is not technically just from food.
  4. Biotin is an essential part of our metabolism of carbohydrates, protein amino acids, and blood fats by being a co-factor known as a co-enzyme that helps us produce glucose from food.
  5. Biotin is critical to much of our protein synthesis as well as cell growth, which is why it’s an important co-factor in hair, skin, and nail growth.
  6. Biotin can actually cause lab test disorders, including thyroid testing abnormalities, so be sure to disclose to your MD if you are taking this when interpreting tests.
  7. Breastfeeding and using acutane are two common reasons women get Biotin depleted and need extra. 
  8. Once Biotin was called vitamin H (the H represents Haar und Haut, German words for "hair and skin").
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