Vitamin C and original sin Man can live one hundred and twenty years of Alfonso
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The extraordinary properties of ascorbic acid were highlighted by the famous experiment of 1747 James Lind, a surgeon on board the ship HMS Salisbury, who managed to save scurvy sailors, adding to their diet a bit 'of lemon juice.
time scurvy was still the enemy most feared by all sailors, pirates included. The disease rages against crews who spent months or even years at sea. Patients suffering from wounds to the legs and feet, bleeding, teeth and hair. To the extreme weakness often could not most moving and eventually died. Some commanders, without waiting for orders from above, did this experience: James Cook was able to return home after a journey of about three years more than half of his men (most deaths from malaria) and by integrating none of the diet of the sailors died of scurvy. The Admiralty
English only in 1795 it was decided to release the internal order to provide every man boarded an ounce of lemon juice per day: this move doubled the strength of the British Navy and contributed to its dominance on the seas in the 19th. century.
A little lemon juice to the British Navy was the most important of all the improvements Technical vessels. Previously, to avoid memory ol'indebolimento crew, every ten weeks alternating with the new men were fighting force, so that sailors could return to earth to recover with fresh food. The impact of vitamin C, because the lemon juice gave the vitamin to the sailors, it was not known or was not well assessed by Napoleon, who suffered the first defeat for the sea. Maybe Lind Nelson has done more than to destroy the power of Napoleon. In fact, the English ships were able to maintain for months a continuous block off the French coast without the need to replace the men.
Scurvy was known since ancient times and fever at the time was called the Seventh Crusade, when he appeared as an epidemic wiped out the Crusaders. This disease occurs after about 3-4 months of total lack of ascorbic acid and therefore it had disastrous effects when left cabotage, began the great sea explorations.
Vasco de Gama, in nine months that circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope, lost six hundred of the 100 crewmen. It was a continuous drip for the crews until they were applied to the personal initiative of the commanders or pursuant to regulations of the insights Lind.
At this point it was known that in citrus fruits, vegetables, in the buds of conifers, (1) there was something that he avoided scurvy and was called "Vitamin C". Only in 1928, Albert Szent Gyorgi discovered and synthesized the active substance. From then on it was a series of researches and experiments, but nearly all tainted by its high initial cost and consider the ascorbic acid a vitamin and as such to be taken in small doses. And nor was it true that only a few milligrams of this extraordinary substance to save a man from the terrible death of scurvy?
also ensure that only humans and a few other "unfortunates" were subject to scurvy mammals: some monkeys, guinea pigs and a special vegetarian bat.
All other mammals were able to synthesize according to the daily needs, ascorbic acid directly into the liver from glucose, which is contained in almost all foods. A goat of 70 kg each produce about 13 grams of vitamin C per day. (2) For other animals the amount of ascorbic acid synthesized is proportional to body weight with an average of 10 grams to 70 kilos in weight.
JJ Burns (3) in 1959 discovered that the few mammals still subject to scurvy, were unable to produce the active enzyme, L-gulonolactone oxidase, involved in the conversion of glucose in their livers to blood ascorbic acid. This synthesis involves four enzymes. The man has the first three enzymes in his liver, but it lacks the fourth enzyme, which completely blocks the production of ascorbic acid by the liver. Now we could almost hold us
satisfied because we knew we needed men of vitamin C, while almost all other mammals it could well do without because their body was producing far as I need.
But we need to understand what were the daily doses of ascorbic acid, man needs to live in good health. Today you go by shriveled
30 mg / day recommended by the Codex Alimentarius (4) to "megadoses" of 45 mg / day for the WHO-WHO (5).
For the sake of truth we must recognize that our Ministry of Health with DM March 18, 2009, publishing the new tables degli apporti giornalieri di vitamine e minerali ammessi negli integratori alimentari, ha moltiplicato per quattro la dose giornaliera consigliata per la vitamina C: prima era di 60 mg, ora è di 240 mg. Nelle linee guida riconosce che “ Per la vitamina E e la vitamina C è ammesso un apporto giornaliero massimo corrispondente al 300% del valore di riferimento, in considerazione della loro fisiologica azione protettiva in senso antiossidante”.
Ma rimaniamo sempre molto lontano dalla media di 10 grammi al giorno degli altri mammiferi.
Di tutt’altro avviso è la Committee on Laboratory Animal Nutrition (6) (Comitato per l'alimentazione degli animali da laboratorio) che dopo numerosi studi ha formulato varie diete recommended, rather similar to each other, for laboratory monkeys.
The amount of ascorbic acid varies from 1.75 to 3.50 g. per day, in proportion to 70 kg. body weight, 1.75 g. a day in the scale of the requirement for the rhesus monkey (Rinehart and Greenberg, 1956) and 3.50 g. per day for the squirrel monkeys (Portman et al, 1967).
So according to the respective scientific bodies man would need 60 mg per day while the monkey would need about 3 grams per day for a healthy diet.
The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences through the Food and Nutrition Board (commission for human consumption) and the Committee on Animal Nutrition (Committee on Animal Nutrition) recommends a glance for a grown man a milligram of ascorbic acid per kilogram of body weight as recommended by the apes, our closest relative of the mammal, a diet of 55 milligrams of ascorbic acid per day per kilogram body weight.
These agencies, and influential entities that affect the health of the other countries, they do: cheering for the animals to the detriment of man, they do it on purpose or not converses with each other?
animal welfare organizations who are always complaining that laboratory animals are mistreated because they are not involved for once in favor of the man who on this point is vilified and abused?
In fact, if the human biochemistry is equal to that of high mammals and in particular that of the monkey, which according to evolutionists would follow, because the man should live with such low doses of vitamin C, 55 times lower?
And it is still reasonable to ask why the man is lacking in this capacity that among other things is not only helpful in saving scurvy but, according to research carried out is essential in all processes of life?
Why the man who occupies a unique place in creation, the most beautiful creature visible, has this weakness which nearly all other mammals do not? The reasons
giving Irving Stone (7) and others who have discovered this deficiency are ridiculous: it would be an evolutionary improvement. But how can it be an improvement that a shortage is resulting in the general weakening of the organism?
In fact, the vitamin C is essential for all life processes, and only a limited list of some of its functions in a living organism:
"is important for the proper functioning of the immune system and collagen synthesis in the body. Collagen strengthens blood vessels, skin, muscles and bones. Man can not make collagen without vitamin C
... Among the most famous trials in which vitamin should intervene remember inter alia:
° Summary of carnitine,
· catabolism of tyrosine,
· amidation of some hormonal peptides,
· Synthesis of bile acids, steroid hormones
· Summary for intervention during the hydroxylation reactions,
· increased absorption of iron by reduction of Fe (III) to Fe (II)
· Action regeneration of vitamin E for the transfer of an electron to the radical-α tocopheroxyl "(8).
In practice, inter alia, vitamin C is used for the production of the "cellular cement" collagen, which gives structure to skin, bone, blood vessels, muscles.
One need only think of what happens in a building where cement is little or miss: If the missing concrete construction falls hopelessly, if it is just the 'building will also be able to remain standing for some time but will always be in a precarious state : Just a little wind, a slight earthquake or just the passing of time and collapse. A man with little "cellular concrete", no one can see, is destined to a precarious life: so much so that it is rare to see an old (and sometimes even younger), that does not go forward without various pills and without some ailment or bone or the cardiovascular system or nervous system.
Man according to these agencies emeritus of health, must live or rather survive with minimal aerated concrete (vitamin C) just enough to not collapse immediately for scurvy, it will collapse and then calmly stroke, diabetes, various diseases, propped expensive drugs in the meantime, to the delight of pharmaceutical manufacturers. While many times would suffice, in due course, a spoonful of more inexpensive "cellular cement" to strengthen the human edifice.
the man, as we read in the first chapters of Genesis, destined to live for centuries, at one point was placed a limit of one hundred and twenty years (Gen. 6: 3).
Evidently the man called a “maledizione” sul capo: la sua incapacità a sintetizzare la vitamina C potrebbe essere una delle conseguenze del peccato originale. E’ significativo che la stessa incapacità accomuni l’uomo e la scimmia: la rivelazione confidata a don Guido Bortoluzzi (9) spiega che il peccato originale fu un peccato di disobbedienza e malizia che si attuò in un atto concreto di ibridazione delle specie umana ad opera del capostipite Adamo, attraverso un rapporto generativo al di fuori della sua specie con l’unica femmina preumana cromosomicamente compatibile (l’“ancestre” che doveva servire solo da “incubatrice” del primo uomo ed era il frutto dell’albero “genealogico”, that should not be eaten). This report caused a generative organic pollution and a regression of the psycho-physical branch unlawful hybridized (young man). But the other branch, that of the pure and legitimate descendants of Adam, which had remained untouched for many generations (the children of God) was gradually incorporated into the branch with corrupt unions promiscuous, so that eventually all men were increasingly plagued by the consequences of original sin. This could be the explanation of verse 2 of chapter 6 of Genesis (10).
The moral consequences were enormous, but also the physical consequences were considerable. We can assume that any of this, the inability to synthesize ascorbic acid, was inherited by mankind as a result of this hybridization or due to something else terrible happened in the early and passed down as original sin.
But for whatever reason, the fact remains that man is unable to synthesize vitamin C and can not even store it or keep it long in the body: it must take it daily doses and significant. Today we have the knowledge to at least partially compensate for this failure: in fact, ascorbic acid is a synthetic product that does not cost much. Unfortunately, the body responsible for human health are less attentive to those who care about the health of animals.
Many scientists and researchers, also rewarded by mainstream science with Nobel laureates, called on "to live longer and feel better" (11) to take up to 4-5 grams and more vitamin C per day. Unfortunately, the Admiralty (the official health authorities like the Food and Nutrition Board, part of the Academy of Sciences USA and the various UN committees, which give guidelines in the world) now seems to be working for the enemy, not his sailors, and wait in vain an appropriate decision in this regard, we have to be like James Cook who saved his sailors without waiting for the official order, are responsible for ourselves and our loved ones and, after having informed, take daily supplements of vitamin C.
1) was thanks to the buds of conifers that the besieged in Stalingrad survived scurvy.
2) immediately comes to mind the famous anti-cancer serum, extracted from the goats, dr. Liborio Bonifacio in the 50s
3) Burns, JJ biosynthesis of L-Ascorbic acid; basic defect in scurvy. Amer. J. Med 26:740-748, 1959 (cited by I. Stone).
4) The Codex Alimentarius is a set of rules and regulations developed by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a Commission (divided into several committees), established in 1963 by FAO and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
5) Vitamin and mineral requirements in human nutrition, 2nd edition (PDF). World Health Organization, 2004.
6) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Nutrient Requirements of Laboratory Animals: Cat, Guinea Pig, Hamster, Monkey, Mouse, Rat, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, (1972).
7) The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease, Authorized online version of Irwin Stone's book on Vitamin C of 1972.
8) Wikipedia under the heading "Vitamin C".
9) Guido Bortoluzzi. Genesis Bible: evolution or creation? Cain and 'the key to the mystery. Third Edition edited by Renzo Giacobbi.
10) Jan. 6, 1-3 (Trad of the Vulgate) "When the men had begun to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw the daughters of men were beautiful and they married any of them they chose. The Lord said, "My Spirit shall not always strive with man as in his backsliding, he is only flesh, then his days will last hundred and twenty years.
11) Pauling, Linus. How to live longer and feel better. Ed Frassinelli, 1989.
