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by gohrt 4231 days ago
How is that "natural" ? Is it harvested from natural producers of the substance?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Adenosyl_methionine#Therapeut...

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It's natural in the sense that the healthy human body produces s-ame on it own, and if your body ever stopped producing s-ame, you'd probably die since (quoting Wikipedia) "more than 40 metabolic reactions involve the transfer of a methyl group from SAM to various substrates, such as nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and secondary metabolites."