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My Research Notes on Vitamin A
Hey folks, I recently came across some notes of mine. Like many of you, I also enjoy studying the science of Vitamin A, and I made it a habit to write down a few bullet points or a short paragraph for every study I read, so I don't forget it again the next day, and I feel like I'm accomplishing something with the time spent.
Since I've somewhat lost interest recently due to other things going on, I thought I'd share my notes with you guys. Maybe someone can get some insight out of them. The main topics covered are pharmacokinetics, the chemistry of retinoic acid, RDH and CYP enzymes, digestive system and elimination, the fatty acid cycle, and comparisons to alcohol.
I think most interesting is a study I found from India, where they apparently managed to feed an actual vitamin A-free diet to mice, and found that mice on the VAD diet were 25% slimmer (by body weight) than control and had better blood values. You can find it in my notes on the last page before the bibliography.
Speaking of bibliography, I highly encourage everyone to read the original studies that I reference, since most of them are incredibly interesting.
If I missed something important, or wrote something that appears to be false, please let me know!
Edit: I just noticed that this is my first post on this forum, so let me also introduce myself really quickly. I'm 23, was on Accutane when I was 16 and had terrible acne and some anxiety ever since. I cut Vitamin A almost exactly a year ago, and saw great improvements with my skin and overall health. Cutting Vitamin A also helped me beat a benzodiazepine addiction and improved my mild tinnitus (which also first appeared after the Accutane treatment). My diet consists mostly of McDonald's hamburgers with just beef and onions.
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