I have heard that fruit bats have been involved in some of these carry overs into humans. Like us these fruit bats cannot produce their own Vitamin C but get it from the fruit. Our lungs have a lining which contains Vitamin C and other antioxidants. Bad viruses cause a rapid drop in Vitamin C in the body. I suspect this is part of why the lungs are affected so badly, and one of the reasons I favor therapeutic use of Vitamin C. I wonder if scientists can find some common denominator in biochemistry that we and the bats have that is making this linking possible?
humans can’t synthesize their own Vit C. Bad viruses cause a rapid drop in Vit C. We don’t want that, right?
Maybe we do have a trick fruit bats don’t. What about DHA - go straight into the RBC where the DHA presto-changos into Vit C and is carried safely packaged to where it’s needed?
Plausible?
” the red blood cells of the handful of vitamin C-defective species are specially equipped to suck up the vitamin’s oxidized form, so-called L-dehydroascorbic acid (DHA), the researchers report in the March21st issue of Cell, a publication of Cell Press. Once inside the blood cells, that DHA—which is immediately transformed back into ascorbic acid (a.k.a. vitamin C)—can be efficiently carried through the bloodstream to the rest of the body, the researchers suggest.”
2008
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080320120726.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080320120726.htm