On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:

> Hm, don't you think that the storage capacity of red blood cells can be
> exhausted after some time?
> Then they would act only as a temporary buffer (enough for a study).

The Nelson studies involved very large amounts of AA -- the
equivalent of over 20 eggs -- over a period of several months.
There was no problem.  And of course the NEJM article about the
88 year-old man said that he had eaten all those eggs for years,
again with no deleterious results.  So where is the evidence that
it is harmful?

Todd Moody
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