At 10:34 PM 11/17/99 -0500, you wrote: >I believe that's why C must be taken in mineral ascorbate or mineral citrate >form. This is the form that's created in the livers of other mammals that >make their own vitamin C. Only Man and the Guinea pig do not. However, it's >an interesting proposition that C will combine with minerals in the >digestive tract and carry them out. If this were true, mineral ascorbates >would simply pass through, yet this is the form that's used by our cells. >Linus Pauling's work was all done with sodium ascorbate, not pure ascorbic >acid. I doubt the "every molecule" argument, but it wouldn't surprise me if >a lot of ascorbic acid is excreted in mineralized form, perhaps because it >reached that state too late in the digestive tract for absorption. > >Sam >~~~~~~~~
This is very interesting. I tried mega C at one point but used ascorbic acid. Didn't know Pauling used sodium ascorbate... ~^^V^^~ -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
