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