Homocysteine - what is it?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Homocysteine - what is it?

And, here's a hint: Yours Truly suffers from at least four of the five following choices! :bounce: :evilgrin:

[Lex]

1. Some trace substance found in one of the B vitamins.

Just by taking a good B vitamin each day, you can raise your homocysteine level and help protect yourself against heart attacks and strokes.

It pisses the big pharmaceutical companies off that something so mundane can be so effective against heart attack and stroke.

Did I get this right?

[Deja Q]

3. Spot-on! In fact, I'd been given a prescript for

Flexo or Floggy or something with an "F" and what looks like an "X" in it.

If vitamin B pills are all I need to pop, then I'll nip by the local walgreens instead. I love poppin' pills, but I prefer popping pills that won't leave me penniless. :D

[giant_robot]

2. An intermediate in amino acid metabolism!

I'm such a geek! :crazy:

[fob]

4. Let's see, Triassic, Jurassic, Homocysteine, Cenozoic, yep

it's the time period when humans were abundant and dinosaurs were cheesy stop-motion animatronic creatures of indeterminate size