Dear Angel,
I've found the names of M1, and M3 only in the context of a specific
commercial product. I cannot evaluate its claim and it seems that no
impartial nutritionist or chemist has done that. In general, the term
elixir refers to any "magical" substance that could allegedly cure all
illnesses; and the gold elixir to the one that could turn lead into
gold.
This brings us back to the Midle-Ages: since then, mankind has tried
to beat the laws of nature - in the Middle Ages, alchemy (the
"science" of attempting to other metals into gold) was popular: with
Enlightenment and the development of science, people realised that
this is not really feasible. The same path has also developed earlier
in Chinese culture, where there was an attempt to develop: "artificial
gold in order to produce the magic elixir of immortality". It
probably, in fact, came to the West after it has been long discredited
in China (SOURCE: Derk Bodde, Chinese Ideas in the West, Alchemy ?
Forerunner of Modern Chemistry
<http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/readings/inventions_ideas.htm#alchemy>).
So, the "real" elixir is a mythical substance, not a real one, that
would restore your youth and turn metals into gold. Those who claim to
sell "gold elixir" either sell some harmless nutritunal additive, or
even something that might be hamful to your body. |