Re: Vitamin C

[Michael Kamensky <mishaksky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I don't take a multivitamin, I take individual vitamins (a tablet of C,
a B complex caplet, a gelcap of E, and so on).

Regarding your second paragraph, I haven't the slightest idea what you're
talking about.

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>From: Michel Margosis <michelmarg@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Vitamin C
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:43:37 -0500
>

> Michael Kamensky wrote:
>
>> Part of the reasoning behind this is that C is a water-soluble vitamin and E
>> is a fat-soluble vitamin. It's not that the vitamins are incompatible with
>> each other, just that they are most effectively absorbed by different means.
>> A multivitamin will be absorbed just fine with a well-rounded meal.
>>
>> Personally I group my vitamins together according to this rule -- I take
>> water-soluble ones like C and B's, and Zinc, together with orange juice in
>> the morning and fat-soluble ones like E, Beta Carotene, and Selenium (which
acts
>> jointly with E) with an evening meal.
>
> I really do not wish to belabor this, but how do you separate your multi
vitamins
> medications into water soluble (B1, B2, B12, C, etc.) from the fat soluble (A,
E,
> tocopherols, etc.).
> I also assume that zinc and seleniem are taken as salts because metallic zinc
is
> impossible to digest, and semi-metallic selenium is very toxic.
> Michel