"he that sent me is true" - The Vitamin C Synthesis Function of Human Species Suppressed by Viruses

 

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The Vitamin C Synthesis Function of Human Species Suppressed by Viruses

Vitamin C is required for the functioning of several enzymes and is important for immune system function.  It also functions as an antioxidant. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C)

However, the human species lack the ability to synthesize vitamin C in their bodies while most of animals possess this function.  So, today, why and how ancestors of the human species lost this ability is thought to be a kind of mystery.

Ancestors of the human species as Haplorhini were separated from Strepsirrhini 63 million years ago after extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.  At the time, ancestors of the human species and other infraorders under Haplorhini lost the vitamin C synthesis ability.    

(https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AB%E7%9B%AE)

The answer must be that our ancestors as Haplorhini were infected by viruses having genes that suppressed the vitamin C synthesis and then they split from Strepsirrhini.  Since then, the human species and other close primates lost vitamin C synthesis ability till this day.  For example, bats also lack this ability, while they have survived to present day as they can take vegetables including vitamin C from environment.

But why did the genes introduced by viruses to suppress the vitamin C synthesis come to be inherited by the human species?  The key to the answer must be the fact that glucose sugar is used as material when synthesizing vitamin C in the human body.  On the other hand, glucose sugar plays an important role in maintaining brain functions.

Without these genes to suppress the vitamin C synthesis, a great amount of glucose sugar would be consumed when it was needed to increase vitamin C in our body, so that our brain would have to lose its material of glucose sugar.  Therefore, the human species opted for keeping these genes to suppress the vitamin C synthesis so as to keep conditions advantageous for protecting and developing of the brain, which allowed for further evolution of the human species. 

Indeed, Linus Carl Pauling, a notable American chemist, once said that the mankind lost the vitamin C synthesis function in order to protect their brains.  But it must be a result of infection 63 million years ago by viruses having genes to suppress the vitamin C synthesis and introducing them into the bodies of early human species.  And due to this incident, the human species could evolve with brains well protected and developed.

Put simply, we owe our existence of today as a highly evolved and intellectual species to viruses with the ability to introduce and transmit genes into our DNA.

It suggests that if the current corona-viruses had such a function to introduce some specific genes to DNA of the mankind, we might further evolve to a certain direction.  However, it is unknown if the direction is good for future of the mankind or fatal for the mankind.

As the current viruses have infected more than 20 million people in the world in eight months or so, damage might have been already done to DNA of the mankind in the worst case.  So, if the God wanted to exterminate the mankind, it seems natural that He would use viruses.

The fact that a man cannot create vitamin C in his body means or suggests something decisive to the future of the mankind. 

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John 8    King James Version
25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.