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eMaxHealth ^ | November 29, 2012 | Deborah Mitchell

[neverdem]

let’s see, our ancient ancestors the lemurs ate fruit almost exclusively!!!!

What happened to rhesus monkeys? Didn't they evolve from the lemurs?

Fructose-fed rhesus monkeys: A nonhuman primate model of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes

[neverdem]

Hypothesis: Could Excessive Fructose Intake and Uric Acid Cause Type 2 Diabetes?

This is an interesting review article.

Besides making the case against fructose consumption, it suggests that "humans have no functional uricase due to a mutation that occurred in the Miocene epoch," and the "the mutational loss of vitamin C synthesis during the Eocene," could be involved with obesity, metabolic syndrome, aka syndrome X, and type 2 diabetes.

It took me about 3 hours to read.

[muawiyah]

Were the monkeys in the wild, or were they captive? There's a big difference in the amount of exercise you can get up in the trees versus what you get in a small cage in a laboratory.

But I don't think Rhesus monkeys are in our lineage ~ maybe a parallel lineage ~ but like so many i think that blue-eyed blond, broad shoulders part, striding about on the ground started out before the Cretaceous ~ don't you? (/snork)

[muawiyah]

Did a quick review of the material on Vitamin C and the suggestion is we are part of a branch of critters (simians) that lost vitamin c synthesis, but we've made up for much of the effect of that loss with improved vitamin c retention ~ because, after all, we have a diet with only the thinnest amount of absorbable vitamin c.

In answer to the obvious question, people in the Arctic get their vitamin c from seal skin.

Next question, why do some people use Vitamin B-12 supplements? And no, it's not 'cause they're crazy ~ rather, they have a B-12 leak somewhere in their metabolism and need to consume more of it than the average human could use. Just noticed the Vitamin C's trick with us is a high retention rate from dietary sources just like B-12 ~ so that mechanism was there all along ~ might look at the chemistry to see if the B-12 'leakage' is related to something to do with various types of sugar. undoubtedly some poor grad student somewhere is doing daily blood tests on his crazy uncle they keep in the attic!

[muawiyah]

Real quickie on uricase, primates don’t have the gene either ~ so this is an oldie ~ and all our wild cousins with small brains are consuming fructose day and night anyway!

[1010RD]

Isn’t a week to heal normal?

[1010RD]

I think we’ll see the a calorie is a calorie model go out the window. How we metabolize what we eat is the critical factor in human health.

One other aside, you should talk to a large animal vet. Veterinarians solve most animal illnesses with minerals. That’s what one told me. He said he doesn’t understand why doctors don’t look into mineral deficiencies as a root cause of many illnesses.

Given that these threads always involve mineral and vitamin discussions I wonder if someone could bridge the gap?