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Re: vitamin c » Phillipa

Posted by tom2228 on May 25, 2014, at 22:48:38

In reply to Re: vitamin c » tom2228, posted by Phillipa on May 25, 2014, at 21:51:28

> How did you learn this? Phillipa

Lots of online reading. I have some background in biology and chemistry from school, and a personal passion for psychopharm -- I am going to school to become a psychiatrist, specifically a psychopharmacologist.

> Tom doesn't this negate it?
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3171470

Very interesting find, and no, no negation, but rather a different topic -- the antioxidant properties of Vitamin C apart from its role as an enzymatic cofactor that I talked about before. The answer is in the first two sentences of the abstract:

"The chemical structure of dopamine includes an ortho-catechol group which is labile to oxidizing agents. Ascorbic acid, a reducing agent, has in the past been added to the incubation medium in order to protect dopamine against oxidation."

What this is saying is that Vitamin C helps prevent dopamine from being broken down, which it does by "neutralizing" other molecules that might otherwise break down the dopamine. Because the dopamine resists being deactivated for a longer period of time, it is functional for longer and thus less is necessary to inhibit prolactin.

Vitamin C has a variety of different functions and mechanisms of action in the body.


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