Hip
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That is the point... so what happens when a specific nutrient (zinc) is made unavailable to utilize and made deficient intentionally during inflammation/infection and then it becomes prolonged? ...potentially hundreds of downstream effects all at the same time that can explain most of what people are experiencing with me/cfs.
Trying to reduce a disease like ME/CFS to a vitamin deficiency is just pseudoscience, in my view.
Have you ever read any of the literature of the orthomolecular people? They point out that there are 10,000s of published studies on vitamin C and all its metabolic pathways; and therefore with so many pathways, vitamin C must be the cure for cancer and any other chronic diseases, right? Wrong! The orthomolecular people are talking nonsense; just because vitamin C is involved in 1000s of pathways, it does not make it a cure for cancer.
I have a lot of interest in supplements and alternative treatments of diseases; but I don't like some of the unscientific notions that you see sometimes in alternative circles.
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