Comments on: Letter vitamins http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/letter-vitamins/ A blog mostly about language Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: arnold zwicky http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/letter-vitamins/#comment-27604 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:28:16 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11445#comment-27604 All this is beside the point of my posting, which was to get at the system of categories in the pharmacist world. The validity of these categories is a separate issue.

(According to Wikipedia, the last lettered vitamin to be discovered was B-9, in 1941.)

]]> By: Bob Richmond http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/letter-vitamins/#comment-27598 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:43:28 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11445#comment-27598 The “lettering” of micronutrients ended a long time ago – I think the last one may have been vitamin B-12, around 1948. You can label a pill or potion with anything you want to, under present “dietary supplement” laws, whether the pills actually contain what the label says or not; a recent review of “Coenzyme Q10″ pills showed that most brands didn’t contain any, or contained only a minuscule amount. Pill store customers aren’t paying for medicine, they’re paying for magick. “Lettered” micronutrients cure beri-beri, ricky-ricky, and scurry-scurry, like we learned in grade school.

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