Maybe anti-oxidants are not as good was we thought

[CCS]

http://www.cellmetabolism.org/content/a ... 3107002562

they showed that vitamin/anti-oxidant and glucose deprivation in worms caused the worms to make more of their own and live 25% longer.

I find that a bit hard to believe. I'm sure that taking anti-oxidants does cause your body to make less, but I'd think the net amount would be more, not less, even in the long term.

I did read in the new research section that only vitamins are absorbed in quantity, and stuff like green tea is only marginally absorbed, and quickly attacked and gotten rid of, and that the body's attack on Green tea also causes an attack on cancer and other stuff, which is good. So the green tea and other flavonoids don't help us directly. They test tube performance is seen more in topical applications, though.

 

[mulder]

Maybe periods of shorter but repeating anti-oxidant deprivation followed by longer periods of high oxidant levels in the answer. Presumably something like this would enable you to get some of the benefits of supplementation and also kick in the survival mechanism that produces endogenous anti-oxidants. Similar idea to intermittent fasting...which I suspect offers the possibility of being more beneficial than just pure calorie restriction.

 

[CCS]

I hope taking anti-oxidants is not like taking testosterone in its synthesis suppression. When roid users stop, they often don't make testosterone for months unless they do PCT.

 

[hairwegoagain]

Don't obsess about this, CCS. I know that's impossible for you but I have to communicate to you like you're a normal mentality since that's the only way I know.

Take a Centrum or other multivitamin, once a day, and get on with your life. You're wasting effort on this just like you do with everything else.

 

[s.a.f]

The guy probably worries about breathing in air, what with all its pollutants etc. :roll:

 

[CCS]

The guy probably worries about breathing in air, what with all its pollutants etc. :roll:

No, just the air on the side of the rode. I take side streets as much as possible when I'm on foot. I'm amazed how many people walk or even jog on main streets when the side streets are just a block away. And intersections smell the worst. I live in a friendly college town, not culver city; the side streets are safe.

 

[s.a.f]

So I was infact almost correct?
Seriously you need help, you cant go on living like this. :crazy:

 

[mulder]

It's the way he is. As long as it doesn't impair him what's wrong with it? At least directing that energy towards health is positive. He would obsess anyway...the compulsive self-improvement is at least somewhat positive.

 

[the Last Fight]

It's a test done on worms .. humans are slightly different then worms :dunno: when its comes to studies you have to use some common sense ...