Vitamin C or L-ascorbate is an essential nutrient for higher primates

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< " Vitamin C or L-ascorbate is an essential nutrient for higher

primates, and a small number of other species. " >

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C

As I was surfing this site for info, the first line (above) kept

resonating. I am still thinking about the Primate studies of CMT 1A

and the development of Humans with CMT 1A. What if Primates were in

a controlled " C " study now? Was it because Primates did not get

enough C as nutrients that CMT 1A mutated into Humans so strongly?

(don't answer please, I am just thinking outloud again)

I am also wondering why no one in the past came up with Vitamin C as

a theraputic tool for CMT 1A. If neurologists gave me Ritalin as a

theraputic tool in 1965, it seems to me that Vitamin C might have

been a good idea also. After all I was also given Potassium

supplementation. (plus " C " does not have the amphetamine effects or

other lasting wickedry that Ritalin, or even the Physiostigmine

trials had on me)

I feel simple is better. The C I take now is mixed in with my B

complex. I have taken this complex for almost a year now with good

effects (plus one capsule of E) a day.

Sometimes I wish researchers would really get in the game and

thoroughly investigate the entire range of vitamins for CMT

theraputic use, but I guess that monkeying around with genes gets

more $ and therefore more attention.

~ Gretchen