NUTR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Collagen, Cell Membrane, Yolk
24 Aug 2016
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Vitamin c: aka ascorbic acid, a water soluble vitamin, can be carried freely in the blood, is not made in the body, should be eaten regularly. Why evolution: most animals make their own vitamin c out of glucose, only monkeys, apes (humans are apes), guinea pigs, and fruit bats can"t, we don"t have the right enzymes to do it! What does vitamin c do: a coenzyme needed for making, collagen. Key component in would healing: bile acids, neurotransmitters, hormones (thyroid and steroid, vitamin c is the major water soluble antioxidants, it is water soluble, so it mostly works in the blood stream, it donates its electrons to free radicals, helps to protect lipids and dna. What is oxidation: the stealing of electrons (by free radicals, why does it occur, a product of metabolism, we need oxygen to burn energy, this oxygen sometimes forms free radicals during the process of energy metabolism.
