Sam, Sorry I wasn't clear in my last post. I do not mean vitamin C collects minerals from the digestive tract, but rather the C that is absorbed into the body cannot be processed by the kidneys unless it is complexed with a mineral.
>From the Nutri-Spec letters: ...Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) cannot be eliminated via the kidneys without first being combined with a mineral or trace mineral. So, in other words, every molecule of excess vitamin C that is dumped into a person's urine has to carry with it a magnesium or a potassium or a zinc or a copper. Vitamin C is particularly antagonistic to the trace mineral copper. In fact, excess vitamin C can be associated with a copper deficiency severe enough to weaken the heart, to elevate cholesterol levels, and to weaken the vasculature such that aneurysms are easily formed in the brain or the aorta. (So much for the idiotic health food industry mentality that promotes taking large doses of Vitamin C because the excess can be "harmlessly" eliminated in the urine.) It has also been clearly demonstrated that enrichment of foods with B vitamins only (using no trace elements) drastically increases the excretion of trace minerals from the body. One study also correlated this vitamin supplementation using no trace minerals with an adverse effect on athletic performance. Ivan. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sam Earle <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 18 November 1999 16:34 Subject: Re: CS>Re:Katarina/Mercury > 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 > -- 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]>
