Re: high dose Vit c and pregnancy - detox, collagen, and fetus

February 13, 2008

Here's one more link to a journal article explaining in detail the

effects of ascorbate on heavy metal poisoning (nickel in this case).

Note the bits about the importance of collagen that would also apply to

a developing fetus. So perhaps some of the effect on the ascorbic acid

to create such healthy babies is that it negates the toxicity of the

heavy metals the mother/fetus are exposed to.

This could have amazing applications to prevention of autism which is

often linked to exposure to metals during development!

And while it addresses nickel specifically, it also mentions chromium,

lead, mercury and others.

February 13, 2008

Renate, Tom and others,

I haven't yet looked at the articles you have posted and will have to

hold off responding until I get a chance to. It looks like the

information available on this might be a bit better than I understood

it to be at the beginning of the discussion.

One quick note on the enzymes -- there are only eight known

C-dependent enzymes (that we have, and three fungal ones), not eight

classes of enzymes.

However, while I was driving to the chiropractor today I was thinking

about this and realized there is another way of looking at this.

Vitamin C has a number of non-enzymatic roles in the cell, and one of

them appears to be recycling or stabilizing tetrahydrabiopterin (THB).

THB is a cofactor for many enzymes, so, one could say that those

enzyems are indirectly C-dependent.

On the other hand, I do not know whether this role is specific for

vitamin C. If it is through some indirect mechanism like affecting

the oxidant/antioxidant balance of the cell, then I think it is a

stretch to say they are C-dependent. But if it is a very specific

role, so that one could say THB is directly C-dependent, then it would

be legitimate to list THB-dependent enzymes as indirectly C-dependent.

Chris

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