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LuckyAky · 6 points
Thanks for the reply. Life Extension's Boron also contains 25mg riboflavin btw, because (according to them):
Riboflavin is known to help stabilize boron preparations by forming a riboflavin-boron complex, so may help promote its stability during digestive transit. Additionally, high boron intake has been observed to deplete riboflavin levels, so it is important that its status be maintained through co-supplementation.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
That makes zero sense, which I am finding more and more with Life Extension products these past few years. Boron glycinate is already a complex of boron and glycine. It's a chelate, like magnesium glycinate, where the boron is bound to the glycine with a coordinate bond. Combining riboflavin with it won't suddenly break the coordinate bond with the glycine, nor would you want it to. Perhaps mixing boric acid with riboflavin will create a complex, but that's the point of the glycine chelate in the first place! Maybe the riboflavin will help with the ionically bound citrate and aspartate salt forms in the LEF formula, as those are just salts that will dissociate in the stomach? Hard to say, as they don't state how much of the formula is citrate, aspartate, and glycinate. Even so, the idea that taking riboflavin with boron will help prevent the depletion of riboflavin is silly! Why does boron deplete riboflavin? BECAUSE THEY COMPLEX WITH EACH OTHER!!! This boron-riboflavin complex is then readily excreted from the body. Taking a pre-mixture of boron and riboflavin, if it does what Life Extension is stating, will just make it so you immediately excrete the complex easier... I could see taking riboflavin at a different time of the day to help account for any complexing that happens in serum, but at the same time just makes no sense to me.