Talk:Pyridoxal-5'-phosphate

Suggestion
Rename this page from "Pyridoxine" to "Pyridoxal-5'-Phosphate", abbreviated PLP.

The form of vitamin B6 that is found in meat is PLP, not Pyridoxine.

The form of vitamin B6 that is used by the body is PLP, not Pyridoxine.

Pyridoxine is a synthetic analogue of PLP that was designed to be more shelf-stable than the natural form of vitamin B6.

The synthetic form of Pyridoxine is now the preferred form in supplements precisely because it is shelf-stable.

Although it is sometimes suggested that "everyone can convert the synthetic form into the natural form", there is now strong evidence that some neurological patients lack the metabolic capacity to convert the synthetic form into the natural form, and therefore the distinction is quite important.

Pyrrhus (talk) 21:17, 10 February 2019 (EST)