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Study: Those High-Priced Antioxidants May Be Killing You
Study Finds ^ | 20 February | Stewart Lawrence

Posted on 02/20/2017 3:40:54 PM PST by cba123

BEIJING — Fear of mortality is one reason Americans spend so much on “antioxidant” products, including Vitamin C supplements and beta-carotene, which promise a longer healthier life. According to the National Institutes of Health, more than half of adults in the U.S. consume some kind of antioxidant product, spending $37 billion each year.

But a study conducted in China – where aging is akin to a national obsession these days – claims that antioxidants don’t work as billed. The study is published in the journal Redox Biology.

A new study finds that antioxidant supplements may be more harmful to the human body than believed.

Rather than extending longevity, researchers say they trigger a stress reaction which causes the body to age more rapidly.

In other words, those expensive life-enhancers may actually be killing you.

(Excerpt) Read more at studyfinds.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: antioxidants; study; vitamins
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I thought it was pretty good, myself. ROTFL!


21 posted on 02/20/2017 4:01:48 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
Saw your next post explaining your mistake right after I made my quip.

It was even funnier then.

:-)

22 posted on 02/20/2017 4:04:26 PM PST by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Be resolved to help!)
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To: BipolarBob

“What does this mean? You mean I’m still going to die after spending all that money??

Exactly. Perhaps you should demand a refund.


23 posted on 02/20/2017 4:13:43 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: cba123

“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.


24 posted on 02/20/2017 4:16:34 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: grumpygresh

Supplement are food. I question the safety of any food coming from China.

There are lots of cheap supplements out there. The health establishment uses the cheapest supplements, in the wrong chemical forms for their studies, generally speaking.


25 posted on 02/20/2017 4:17:10 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: cba123

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.


26 posted on 02/20/2017 4:21:40 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: cba123

Whiskey and bacon.

That’s all l’m saying.


27 posted on 02/20/2017 4:23:04 PM PST by glorgau
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To: WashingtonSource

Here is the study.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231716304426


28 posted on 02/20/2017 4:23:07 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: cba123

They weren’t clear about what antioxidants were studied. I know personally I wouldn’t ingest any Rustoleum product.


29 posted on 02/20/2017 4:26:07 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: cba123
"Those High-Priced Antioxidants May Be Killing You"
Thank goodness I only buy the cheap antioxidants....
30 posted on 02/20/2017 4:27:17 PM PST by nevergore
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To: cba123

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.


31 posted on 02/20/2017 4:28:03 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Lakeshark
MILO?

Is he an antioxidant?

It was the splicing and doctoring that did it!

32 posted on 02/20/2017 4:28:32 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: cba123

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.


33 posted on 02/20/2017 4:29:45 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: mazz44

“The human body used to have the gene that sinthesized its own vitamin C”

How would we know what genes the human body used to have?


34 posted on 02/20/2017 4:30:28 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: grumpygresh
Chinese vitamins probably are bad for you.

That was certainly my take on this thread. I don't imbibe anything produced in China, if I can help it.

35 posted on 02/20/2017 4:30:51 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: the_Watchman

I am certified as a personal fitness trainer through ACE (The American Council on Exercise). For the ten years I have been a trainer, ACE has always advocated getting all necessary vitamins in food.


36 posted on 02/20/2017 4:43:55 PM PST by freepertoo
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Well, Milo IS kind of a free radical.


37 posted on 02/20/2017 4:47:23 PM PST by JustaCowgirl ( If a regime would be happier in the afterlife than this life, that regime is not subject to threats)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
I have to say that that is a funny post for this thread. 😁
38 posted on 02/20/2017 4:48:28 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: cba123

Only if you buy your anti-oxidants from China.


39 posted on 02/20/2017 4:50:59 PM PST by tiki
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To: cba123

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.


40 posted on 02/20/2017 4:53:53 PM PST by montag813
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