kolling@decwrl.DEC.COM (Karen Kolling) (02/10/86)
> One final word of warning: don't get your B-12 from vitamin > supplements! These contain breakdown products of B-12 (technic- > ally referred to as "B-12 analogues") that actually have an anti- > B-12 effect! What? Expand on this, please. Do you actually mean that taking this stuff leaves you worse off than before? (And all these years I thought one-a-day was protecting my spinal column, or whatever it is that a B-12 deficiency hits....)
dyer@harvard.UUCP (Steve Dyer) (02/11/86)
> > One final word of warning: don't get your B-12 from vitamin > > supplements! These contain breakdown products of B-12 (technic- > > ally referred to as "B-12 analogues") that actually have an anti- > > B-12 effect! > > What? Expand on this, please. Do you actually mean that taking > this stuff leaves you worse off than before? (And all these years > I thought one-a-day was protecting my spinal column, or whatever it > is that a B-12 deficiency hits....) I suppose there is more legitimacy for such silliness here in net.veg rather than in net.med, where such statements would be quickly be given the heave-ho they deserve. Still it pains me to see the factoids that my dopplenetter is passing off as facts. Poor Karen has probably received more damage from Jym's comments on B-12 than her lifetime of prophylactic vitamin taking (you know, her adrenalin rises, causing all sorts of poisons to accumulate, the organism is in a state of fear, rather like a bull before it's slaughtered or a fish hooked and...) Too bad he isn't clued in on the moral implications of network posting. Is this the equivalent of Rich Rosen loitering in net.religion.christian? I think not, and I hope not, because both Jym and I are making comments which are subject to objective scrutiny. You'll be hard pressed to find any such "anti-B-12" elements in any multivitamin preparation, not for that matter have our B-12-producing intestinal flora decreased since Pasteur's day (at least for the majority of us who are not taking antibiotics at any point in time.) -- /Steve Dyer dyer@harvard.harvard.edu harvard!dyer