Inositol
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Inositol may exist in one of seven optically inactive forms and as one pair of optically active isomers. Only one of these forms, myoinositol, possesses biological activity.
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myo-Inositol is a structural component in living tissues. It has lipotropic action, preventing accumulation of cholesterol in one type of fatty liver disease, and is involved with choline in homeostasis of normal lipid metabolism