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Can you define and describe biotin? what are the side effects?
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Very: Biotin is a water soluble b vitamin. What you don't need you release into the urine. The fat soluble vitamins have the greatest risk of toxicity over time. The water soluble are relatively safe.
Answered 10/24/2017
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