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In my days, an athlete who was 5'10" was tall.  Tall athletes were considered awkward.  Basketball is a joke.  Let's have teams with athlete's maxed out at 5'10".  That would be fun to watch.  Then have a different league for  the taller guys.  They do this in boxing don't they?

I can't believe it.  First I'm always afraid to cheer for someone I want to win because I think I'm a hex.  However, seeing all the foot problems and the fact that the vets have confidence in Big Brown is parallel to my ability to walk without a cane right now.  Looking at the way Big Brown walked before the race,  I thought I must be crazy.  The fact he was such an outstanding favorite despite all the feet problems, well it does give me some new hope for human medicine.  
It's all a breathtaking miracle.  I don't bet my $$$, I bet my brain.   I'm completely exhausted with all this thinking.  I sure do depend on vets for my health.
Right after I wrote the above, the other side of the coin.  Eight Belles.  I missed the fact that she had fractures while I watching all day today and googling.  Actually, to be realistic, yes, I do depend on my vets for my health.  However, it's education not faith.  They are human doctors after all and make risky decisions without telling me ahead of time.  Actually, it's the surgeons that the vets trust for unusual surgery.  

Vitamin

Name

Deficiency effects

Vitamin B₁

_{hiamine beriberi. Symptoms of this disease of the nervous system include weight loss, emotional disturbances, Wernicke's encephalopathy (impaired sensory perception), weakness and pain in the limbs, periods of irregular heartbeat, and edema (swelling of bodily tissues). Heart failure and death may occur in advanced cases. Chronic thiamine deficiency can also cause Korsakoff's syndrome, an irreversible psychosis characterized by amnesia and confabulation.}

Vitamin B2

 

_riboflavin

Deficiency causes

_{ariboflavinosis. Symptoms may include cheilosis (cracks in the lips), high sensitivity to sunlight, angular cheilitis, glossitis (inflammation of the tongue), seborrheic dermatitis or pseudo-syphilis (particularly affecting the scrotum or labia majora and the mouth), pharyngitis, hyperemia, and edema of the pharyngeal and oral mucosa.}

Vitamin B3

 

_niacin

Deficiency, along with a deficiency of

_{tryptophan causes pellagra. Symptoms include aggression, dermatitis, insomnia, weakness, mental confusion, and diarrhea. In advanced cases, pellagra may lead to dementia and death.}

Vitamin B5

 

_{pantothenic acid}

Deficiency can result in

_{acne and paresthesia, although it is uncommon.}

Vitamin B6

 

_pyridoxine

Deficiency may lead to

_{anemia, depression, dermatitis, high blood pressure (hypertension), water retention, and elevated levels of homocysteine.}

Vitamin B7

 

_biotin

Deficiency does not typically cause symptoms in adults but may lead to impaired growth and neurological disorders in infants.

Vitamin B9

 

_{folic acid}

Deficiency results in a

_{macrocytic anemia, and elevated levels of homocysteine. Deficiency in pregnant women can lead to birth defects. Supplementation is often recommended during pregnancy. Researchers have shown that folic acid might also slow the insidious effects of age on the brain.}

Vitamin B12

 

_cobalamin

Deficiency causes

_{macrocytic anemia, elevated homocysteine, peripheral neuropathy, memory loss and other cognitive deficits. It is most likely to occur among elderly people as absorption through the gut declines with age; the autoimmune disease pernicious anemia is another common cause. In rare extreme cases, paralysis can result.}

Nutrients

Vitamin B4:

Vitamin B7: "Vitamin I" of Centanni E. (1935) — also called 'Enteral factor' — is a water and alcohol soluble rice-bran factor which prevents digestive disturbance in pigeons. It governs the anatomical and functional integrity of the intestinal tract. Later found in yeast. Possible candidates for this substance are

Vitamin B8:

Vitamin B10:

Vitamin B11:

Vitamin B13:

Vitamin B14: cell proliferant, anti-anemia, rat growth, and antitumor pterin phosphate named by Earl R. Norris (biochemist of folic acid fame). Isolated from human urine at 0.33ppm (later in blood), but later abandoned by him as further evidence did not confirm this. He also claimed this was not Xanthopterin.

Vitamin B15 6-O-(dimethylaminoacetyl)-D-gluconic acid (

Vitamin B16 (

Vitamin B17 (

Vitamin B18 –

Vitamin B19 –

Vitamin B20 (

Vitamin B21 –

Vitamin B22 – often claimed as an ingredient of

Vitamin Bh – another name for

Vitamin Bm ("mouse factor") – also used to designate Inositol

Vitamin Bp (

Vitamin Bt (

Vitamin Bv – a type of B6 but not Pyridoxine

Vitamin Bw – a type of Biotin but not d-Biotin

Vitamin Bx – another name for PABA (

Lipoic acid –

Note: B16, B17, B18, B19, B20, B21 & B22 do not appear to be animal factors but are claimed by naturopaths as human therapedic factors.

_{Adenine, a nucleobase.[1] inositol, niacin (nicotinic acid), and biotin. Carnitine was also claimed to be a candidate but is not soluble in alcohol.[citation needed] adenosine monophosphate, or alternately inositol has also been called vitamin B8 para-aminobenzoic acid, or PABA Pteryl-hepta-glutamic acid – Chick growth factor, which is a form of Folic acid. Later found to be one of five folates necessary for humans; (L-carnitine) is called Vitamin B11 in France[citation needed]. Orotic acid. Pangamic acid) dimethylglycine) – also known as DMG. (However Lipoic acid was discovered and named a B-Vitamin after B15 and before B17) Amygdalin, Nitrilosides, or laetrile) – A substance found in a number of seeds, sprouts, beans, tubers and grains. While toxic in large quantities, proponents claim that it is effective in cancer treatment and prevention. [2] Carnitine) – Aloe vera extracts but also in many other foods. Claimed by one source to be Vitamin B12b-d. Biotin Choline) –[dubious – discuss] L-carnitine) – para-Aminobenzoic acid)}

Deficiency causes

Well, not only can we let athletes do research for us for arthritis, we let them help us find out how hormones effect the brain and making social decisions.

Unfortunately the FDA hasn't made the brain connection yet.  Steroids are hormones you know.

NATURALLY-OCCURRING HORMONES

Estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone are naturally-occurring (endogenous) steroid hormones produced in significant quantities throughout the lifetime of every man, woman, and child, and are required for the proper physiological functioning and maturation of every mammal. All endogenous steroid hormone products marketed in the U.S. for beef growth-promotion are formulated as implantable pellets and are designed to deliver the hormones at a slow, constant rate when injected subcutaneously under the skin of the animal's ear. Numerous scientific studies have demonstrated that, when these drugs are used in accordance with their approved conditions of use, concentrations of the hormones in edible tissues remain within the normal physiological range that has been established for untreated animals of the same age and sex. Because of the slow release of very small amounts of the hormone and a short average half-life (approximately 10 minutes), it has been determined that no pre-slaughter withdrawal time is necessary to protect the public health. Consumers are not at risk from eating food from animals treated with these compounds because the amount of added hormone is negligible compared to the amount normally found in the edible tissues of untreated animals and that are naturally produced by the consumer’s own body.

SYNTHETIC HORMONES

Unlike naturally-occurring steroid hormones, there is no natural production of the synthetic compounds, trenbolone acetate, zeranol, and melengestrol acetate (MGA). These compounds are not metabolized as quickly as the naturally-occurring steroid hormones. Therefore, the FDA required, prior to their approval, extensive toxicological testing in animals to determine safe levels in edible tissues for these compounds. Furthermore, FDA required that the manufacturers demonstrate that the amount of hormone left in each edible tissue after treatment is below the appropriate safe level.