B Vitamin Spotlight: All About Biotin

Biotin is part of the B vitamin family. Like the rest of its members, it plays a key role in the body’s metabolic processes.

Mainly known for the benefits it confers to nails, biotin is needed for so much more. Deficiencies may lead to many health problems and can even be deadly.

Biotin has also been called vitamin H, which stands for haar and haut – German words for hair and skin – where biotin deficiency often shows itself.

Biochemist Dean Burk is credited as being one of the co-discoverers of biotin in the early 1930s.¹

Biotin Deficiencies Happen

Although biotin is made …read more