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Ron, Could you give a source of lipoic acid.?? At 12:36 PM 12/3/97 -0500, you wrote: >Why is everyone so concerned about getting Vit E and C to the brain. If you >think that antioxidants will help, just take lipoic acid. It not only >reaches the brain, it has been shown to reach the substantia nigra. It is a >very powerful antioxidant and it recycles E which recycles C. > >Plus it generates L-glutatione which is scarce in PD people. It also >chelates Iron. > >Builds strong brains in 4 ways! > > Ron Reiner (49/2) >At 03:15 AM 12/3/97 -0400, you wrote: >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Getting Vitamin C on the Brain >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Vitamin C levels are 10 times higher in the brain >>than they are elsewhere in the body, and now researchers think they know >>the reason why. >> >>A particular chemical form of vitamin C -- called dehydroascorbic acid -- >>can slip past the blood brain barrier, resulting in higher concentrations >>of the antioxidant in the central nervous system. >> >>"Our findings in this study suggest that vitamin C concentrations in the >>brain could be increased by increasing the blood concentration of >>dehydroascorbic acid," reported lead author Dr. David Agus, an oncologist >>at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. >> >>Manipulating vitamin C levels in the brain may turn out to be helpful in >>combating Alzheimer's disease or other neurological disorders. >> >>Vitamin C tends to mop up free radicals, damaging particles >