I'm worried that the C60 community is throwing the baby out with the bathwater since Baati was "debunked" by Ichor.
Granted, Ichor appears to have proven that c60oo can, at least in some formulations, suffer from photoinstability, potentially resulting in the formation of toxic compounds such as the black gunk that they were able to produce in their study using laboratory lighting. However, to my knowledge, there is no evidence as yet that Turnbuckle's c60mct suffers from the same. I've suggested that photostability and thermostability experiments be performed in a lab such as Ichor's. Absent any such effort, though, and because this might literally be a matter of life and death for me as a long term consumer of c60mct, I've undertaken a crude photostability experiment to determine the extent to which Ichor's c60oo results translate to c60mct. (As I've said elsewhere, I suspect that the discrepency between Ichor and Baati is due to rampant fraud in the olive oil industry, but this is beside the point because we're talking about MCT (medium-chain triglyceride) oil here.)
I'm sharing the results of my first experiment in the hopes that others will chime in with more data from better designed and executed experiments.
But let me skip directly to the result: nothing happened insofar as I was able to tell. No black gunk, no weird oil sheen, no odor, no opacity changes, no viscosity changes, no difference in chromatographic behavior, and no color differences. Of course, I can't see changes that require anything more than my own senses. Now here's what I did:
1. I put purple c60mct into 2 glasses, forming a layer of approximately 2 mm thickness on the flat bottom of each glass.
2. The glasses were positioned next to each other on a clean white table.
3. An LED light was placed about 40 cm above one of the glasses. It was 600 lumens and 3000K. Characteristically, this would be warm white, which looks yellowish because it contains more red than blue. (Ichor used a bluer and more intense source. I'll do that in the next experiment. I just wanted to know if c60mct is somehow hopelessly photounstable.)
4. I shielded the other glass such that it received only ambient light. It was probably getting on the order of 1% as much power, and definitely not more than 10%.
5. I left them in an isolated room whose temperature was always at least 26C (based on a thermometer reading) throughout the course of the experiment.
6. I came back after 2 hours to discover... nothing had changed.
7. Just to make sure, I dumped out each glass onto a piece of white paper in a crude approximation of chromatography. I couldn't discern any meaningful difference between the 2 oil blobs as they diffused across and into the paper.
So this at least suggests that it's possible to protect c60mct from lab lighting during prep and periodic dispensing. After all, it's much easier to destroy something by accident than preserve it. I'd like to know how far we can push this, both photometrically and thermally. Perhaps we could even experiment with fat-soluable antioxidants such as gamma tocopherol and astaxanthin. (It's weird to think of "third party" antioxidants somehow protecting c60mct itself, but anyway I'm just putting the idea out there, should it prove to be helpful.)
Please help add to the data if you have c60mct! (If you can't make your own, then I believe you can buy it online. Check Amazon and eBay. The potential benefits of C60 oils are simply too compelling to ignore just because of Ichor's impressive but narrowly scoped experiment. If you have a decent lab setup, which I don't, then please consider participating, even if you don't personally take c60mct. It could do a lot of good for the community, regardless of the result.)
Edited by resveratrol_guy, 22 August 2021 - 12:06 PM.
