X-Message-Number: 17347 From: Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:37:29 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #17321 -O2 is bad From: : << Catalase is the anti-H2O2 enzyme. Superoxide dismutase works on superoxide radicals. (And EUK-134 has the activity of both enzymes, just to keep up my record of mentioning EUK-134 in every post.) Overexpressing superoxide dismutase and catalase by genetic engineering works as a life-extension method in C. elegans (almost as well as EUK-134) ... >> <<P.S. Also remember, as Wesley points out, anyone posting from an AOL address (or from a college where most of the students major in Herbiculture, right Wesley?) is stupid, so don't take my word for anything. >> Hi Walker and the list, OK, you are on AOL so you are stupid; so I must not take into account your advice: "don't take my word for anything." That let me with what I must take into account. First question: where can I find EUK-134. I am sure if I ask at the next corner groceries, they tell me they have not it (mind you: they have not even RP-1 rocket fuel!) High concentration O2 is bad, I am convinced, too few is bad too. No oxygen = no energy = a build up of free radicals, that is why anti-oxydants are good in ischemic conditions. The question is: what is the optimum O2 level? it must come from an adaptative process, so I would say it is the atmospheric level in african pains (the origin domain of man). Now, evolution has a fair amount of inertia and O2 level has not always been what it is now. At some epoch it peaked at near 30 per cent... Because actual level is rather low on the historical scale, I would guess we are adapted to an optimum higher than the current partial pressure in the atmosphere. This was my basic logic for testing atmospheric content with more O2. Now, if I can find a supermarket with EUK-134.... guess my choice :-) Yvan Bozzonetti from the grim weather of Paris and AOL-Vivendi-Universal Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17347