Really, you need to re-read your High School Chemistry. Mixtures are different from compounds and compounds have different properties than their components. Ingredients are not necessarily "in" the resultant compound. Burning hydrogen results in water whose property is totally unlike the hydrogen and oxygen from which it is formed.
Really, you need to re-read your High School Chemistry. Mixtures are different from compounds and compounds have different properties than their components. Ingredients are not necessarily "in" the resultant compound. Burning hydrogen results in water whose property is totally unlike the hydrogen and oxygen from which it is formed.
Dose matters. Many things are poisons in high dosages which contain substances the body can extract for nutrients in small dosages. Clean food contains many poisons the body can handle and even extract nutrition from in small doses. Poisonous chemicals can be removed after processing. The resultant product might be checked for safe levels of said chemicals (or maybe not).
Molecules are not identified by seeing them in microscopes. Chemical theories are useful.
I'd love to know the deficiencies of synthetic vitamins, but you aren't helping in that quest.
So if you take 2 ingredients, each being a hazardous chemical waste product, and mix them together in a lab soup on the stove top, they become 'something else' (like a health miracle?)? And that something else is not hazardous anymore because it is "different" from the initial components. Not only that, it becomes a "vitamin" copy that's like a new and improved insides of a head of broccoli. And even though humans never consumed this garbage for the majority of our timeline, we should 'try to know' if we might be deficient in these compounds? Or wonder if they (the chemical recipes) are "deficient" as in not quite as good as the nutrient orchestra going on inside the broccoli? Am I getting this right?
Maybe it is just me, but I think I'd rather take my chances with the growing plant in the forest- that the chief of the tribe points to when he is explaining how it has kept his peoples in robust health for generations, rather than dosing a newly lab-created end product which is the combination of different waste materials scraped off the floor of the chemical plant in China- and then repurposed by a subsidiary of Merck & Friends...gimme the version without the hazmat suits.
Really, you need to re-read your High School Chemistry. Mixtures are different from compounds and compounds have different properties than their components. Ingredients are not necessarily "in" the resultant compound. Burning hydrogen results in water whose property is totally unlike the hydrogen and oxygen from which it is formed.
Dose matters. Many things are poisons in high dosages which contain substances the body can extract for nutrients in small dosages. Clean food contains many poisons the body can handle and even extract nutrition from in small doses. Poisonous chemicals can be removed after processing. The resultant product might be checked for safe levels of said chemicals (or maybe not).
Molecules are not identified by seeing them in microscopes. Chemical theories are useful.
I'd love to know the deficiencies of synthetic vitamins, but you aren't helping in that quest.
So if you take 2 ingredients, each being a hazardous chemical waste product, and mix them together in a lab soup on the stove top, they become 'something else' (like a health miracle?)? And that something else is not hazardous anymore because it is "different" from the initial components. Not only that, it becomes a "vitamin" copy that's like a new and improved insides of a head of broccoli. And even though humans never consumed this garbage for the majority of our timeline, we should 'try to know' if we might be deficient in these compounds? Or wonder if they (the chemical recipes) are "deficient" as in not quite as good as the nutrient orchestra going on inside the broccoli? Am I getting this right?
Maybe it is just me, but I think I'd rather take my chances with the growing plant in the forest- that the chief of the tribe points to when he is explaining how it has kept his peoples in robust health for generations, rather than dosing a newly lab-created end product which is the combination of different waste materials scraped off the floor of the chemical plant in China- and then repurposed by a subsidiary of Merck & Friends...gimme the version without the hazmat suits.