Vitamin Choline

Vitamin Choline Supplements

Choline is a component of lecithin, sphingomyelin, acetylcholine and other phospholipids. It can be easily synthesized in human body from the amino acid methionine, first to ethanolamine to form Choline through transmethylation with the aid of vitamin B12 and Folic Acid.

Choline is considered as a member of the Vitamin B family. It is a colourless, crystalline compound, easily soluble in water and alcohol.

It gets decomposed on boiling. It is absorbed form the intestine and excreted through the urine.

Vitamin Choline Supplements
Citicoline (CDP Choline) 250mg 60C
Citicoline (CDP Choline) 250mg 60C



Citicoline is a naturally occurring, water soluble biological compound that is an essential intermediate for the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine, a major constituent of the grey matter of brain tissue (30%). Citicoline is metabolized to yield the free nucleotide cytidine and choline. Scientific research demonstrates that Citicoline consumption promotes brain metabolism by enhancing the synthesis of acetylcholine, restoring phospholipid content in the brain and regulation of neuronal membrane excitability and osmolarity.
Functions of Choline in Our Body



• It helps in the synthesis of phosphatides in the liver and to a lesser extent in other tissues. Thus choline plays a lipotropic action by preventing the deposition of fats and accelerates the rate of removal of fat from the liver and various other tissues.
• It is required for synthesis of lecithin, sphingomyclin, acetylcholine, which are compounds of immense physicological importance.
• It helps brain cells to produce a chemical that aids memory.
• It is given in diet to lower animals, especially when methionine supply is low, to promote growth, mobilization of fat and physiological processes in them.

Natural Sources of Choline


The Choline is found in abundance in butter, egg-yolk, and nervous tissue.

Choline Deficiency

• Since choline is equally required by lower animals, and not synthesized in their body, the deficiency is reflected in them only through fatty liver, haemorrhagic necrosis in kidneys, anaemia, and hypoproteinemia.
• However the prolonged deficiency of Choline in us can have symptoms of fatty degeneration and cirrhosis of liver atherosclerosis, and raised blood pressure.