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--- alexs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> .. and the
> >>exogenous liver metabolite, ascorbate ion,
> persists
> >>in being relegated to trace nutrient status with
> the
> >>other vitamins as the so-called "vitamin C".
> >
> >I'm not shure if i just don't understand this
> english sentence..
> >... what is relegated? the ascorbate ion?
> >                       the nutrient status?
>
> Yes, that sentence was convoluted. The point is that
> orthodox vitamin theory, dating back since 1912,
> somewhat
> arbitrarily classified the antiscorbutic factor, now
> known as ascorbate, with the other "vitamines".
> Well,
> it was discovered that they were not amines at all,
> so the name was changed to vitamins. But ascorbate,
> dubbed vitamin C, was seen as just another trace
> nutrient needed only to prevent scurvy. This has
> been known to be false since ascorbate plays a
> much broader role in metabolism.
>
> >
> >or if Alexs states here that vitamins are obsolete
> from now on
> >or just vitamin C is obsolete?
>
> Again, the concept of ascorbate being a mere trace
> vitamin is obsolete, not its utility.
> >
> refer to
>
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