The Heart Is A Muscle (Too)

Vitamin C deficiency causes muscle atrophy and a deterioration in physical performance

SMP30-/- is not GULO-/- but results in the same stall in the vitamin C synthesis pathway.  You could in fact cross SMP30-/- with Lp(a)+ and it in fact would not be the same thing as GULO-/- ; Lp(a)+.

While everyone was busy proving themselves on paper, Pyridoxamine has been ruled a drug!

These grandstands of petty self-absorbed adults did nothing more than divert their energies away from the real fights worth fighting. That's why the common man loathes politics sometimes. So, while they were busy stroking their insufferable egos, some groups quietly convinced the FDA to rule pyridoxamine as a drug.

Pyridoxamine, if you don't know, is one of the vitamers that make up "Vitamin B6" along with pyridoxal, and pyridoxine. All three are converted in the body to pyridoxal-5-phosphate, a naturally occurring, truly essential (as opposed to your body doesn't make it "essential") vitamin. You will die without B6.

So then, they found that it is great in diabetes and heart disease and made legal dibs on it to sell it as a drug. If it didn't work, they wouldn't have gone through the trouble. The irony of all this is that they spend the same amount of money and energy making it public that vitamins don't work while they covertly plan to sell the same.

Not to worry though. What makes pyridoxamine so special is its amine group and ability to make adducts through nucleophilic attack on carbonyls. This is not something exclusive to pyridoxamine, and you can still get this effect through several other nutrients such as L-Arginine. This is totally unpatentable and cannot be ruled a drug. If this were to happen, the USA would have officially fallen into a very dark age of legal tyranny.