But it seems interesting.
Just thought I would post it here, for comments.
Anti-oxidants, may be harmful?
What does this mean? You mean I’m still going to die after spending all that money?? Now I’m really really upset.
Erm....
Another study seemed to indicate that saliva causes throat cancer. But only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.
CC
One minute the Chinese are antioccident, the next they are antiantioxidant
This is BS! Linus Pauling and Mathias Rath has and is doing extensive work on Vitamin C and various antioxidants. To give you a little perspective....beta carotene is a major player in preventing various skin cancers and night blindness. Vitamin C must be taken at 3000 mg daily to produce glutathione. The body master vitaminlike hormone. The human body used to have the gene that sinthesized its own vitamin C
By the way free radicals are killing people by damaging tissues and cells. So using anti-oxidants to attack free radicals is worse? I find this claim highly dubious. what credible scientists peer reviewed this study?
Propaganda from the Drug Industry.
But their Ritalin, Gardasil and prozac are “good” for you.
Or are they good for the drug industry’s bank accounts?
Perhaps a balance between the two for optimal health per fatalistic DNA?
Supplements are 98% chemical garbage.
There is much basis in fact to the headline, without regard to the details of this study.
Chinese vitamins probably are bad for you.
“But a study conducted in China”
i stopped reading right there.
i take a few supplements like Vit C, B-Complex, Magnesium-Taurate and Vit D.
Excepting the B-Complex, most Americans don’t get enough of the above in their diet.
I feel noticeably more lethargic and less sharp mentally if I stop taking them.
I’m a cancer patient, and I went through chemo, immunotherapy, and surgery. I’ve been in remission for seven years. My doctor told me to take anti-oxidants, and I’ve been taking them for seven years. Probably a coincidence.
Whiskey and bacon.
That’s all l’m saying.
They weren’t clear about what antioxidants were studied. I know personally I wouldn’t ingest any Rustoleum product.
This is not the first recent study questioning the use of anti-oxidants as supposed helpers in preventing disease.
A recent very large study in Europe on finding no correlation between high-dosage use of anti-oxidants and improved health outcomes looked at the cellular workings of anti-oxidants, and some indicators in their study that suggested health outcomes were more negative with high anti-oxidant doses, and insignificantly different with moderate doses. They looked for why.
They looked at what exactly “positive” antioxidants do. Primarily they help inhibit cell death. They do that without discrimination of the cells or cell type. What about “bad” cells, like cancer or pre-cancer, or even slightly “bad” cells an organ would be better off if the cell died. Those too have “normal” cell death inhibited by antioxidants. In other words, good or bad, antioxidants are an equal opportunity life saver to cells - any kind, including some you’d be better off without.
Isn’t there already natural processes trying to extend cell life and permit proper cell death? Yes. Does it seem antioxidants improve those processes. No. Added to the bloodstream they provide signals that help decrease the bodies production of normal cell protection and normal cell death processes, as if THEY, the “antioxidants” were going to do more of that job.
Eat a good balanced and nutritious diet, and let the supplements industry survive without you.
The theory is that the body responds to oxidants by producing anti-oxidants and concomitant cellular responses that are fundamental to combatting aging.
The introduction of anti-oxidants falsely lowers oxidant levels and these systems are not properly activated because the body does not see the insult due to artificially keeping oxidant levels low.
Normal processes involved in anti-aging are thus not turned on as they would be without the introduction of outside anti-oxidants.
It’s a finne theory, may have merit.
Personally I don’t think it makes a huge difference one way or the other.
Only if you buy your anti-oxidants from China.
Vitamin C and beta carotene? What is, this, 1990? Those are utterly useless (like Centrum, or toxic, such as E) and anyone with sense knows this, and takes more advanced supplements like CoEnzyme-Q (or better, its Ubiquinol form), Coconut oil, pro-biotics (NOT Dannon’s nonsense), Matcha (not standard useless) green tea (for its EGCG), and many others.