Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new study exploring why humans and some other animals can’t produce Vitamin C
Links: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11…
#biology #parasite #vitaminc
0:00 James Lind story
2:10 Ascorbic acid and what it does
2:50 Why can’t we make vitamin C?
3:40 How most animals make it
5:10 Animals without vitamin c production – but why?
6:50 Is it because of parasites?
7:50 Experiment testing this hypothesis
9:00 Major discoveries
10:00 How does this work?
11:00 What does this mean and what are the implications?
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