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Which compound is a potent stimulator af catecholamine synthesis, a potent antioxidant, has a key role in cell regulation and DNA repair?
(hint,its also an enhancer of the cellular immune system.)

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...Is it Ascorbic Acid?
Well, it does participate in catecholamine synthesis, I imagine as a coenzyme in hydroxylation reactions, and also inactivates oxygen radicals, that could damage something, I never heard it actually repairs DNA. What type of DNA damage does it repair?







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