copper and zinc destroy vitamin a and beta carotene in the stomach

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i'm not posting on this board but this is one of the most significant

effects i have ever come across so am mentioning it

vitamin a and carotenes are very fragile and easily rendered useless

by oxidation

this is not just in supplements about also in foods and especially

just eaten food in the stomach

copper is particularly bad bad for this but so is zinc (i do not

recommend an inorganic zinc btw like citrate or oxide)

however taking a bit of ester c (50mg for an adult?) after a meal and

before taking the copper or zinc seems to dramatically help preserve

the vitamin and carotenes in the food as well other food factors

including b's

vit c acts as an antioxidant in the stomach and most likely vit e is

a help to

i also suspect that this is a more general issue than just people

taking supplements cause of the extensive use of copper piping for

water now and the copper loading will be having a strong oxidising

effect when used as cooking water and for drinks

with depeletion of vit a and carotenes your immune system function

just gets depressed and you get viral all the time with exposure,

cfs'y

i have written up about copper and zinc in 'minerals i take'

and 'copper and zinc' in the index of http://tinyurl.com/2csa3