Editing Inositol (section)

==History==
''myo''-Inositol was first isolated from muscle extracts by Johanes Joseph Scherer (1814–1869) in 1850.<ref name=liyu2021/> It was formerly called ''meso''-inositol to distinguish it from the ''chiro''- isomers. However, since all other isomers are meso (non-[[chirality (chemistry)|chiral]]) compounds, the name ''myo''-inositol is now preferred (''myo''- being a [[list of medical roots, suffixes, and prefixes|medical prefix]] for "muscle").

Inositol was once considered a member of the [[vitamin B]] complex, namely [[vitamin B8|vitamin B<sub>8</sub>]] before the discovery that it is made naturally in the human body, and therefore cannot be a [[vitamin]] or [[essential nutrient]].<ref name=reyn1993/>