Study: Those High-Priced Antioxidants May Be Killing You

Study Finds ^ | 20 February | Stewart Lawrence

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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.

[ConservativeMind]

There may still be cardio issues with TMAO that is created from carnitine (from meat or lecithin):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylamine_N-oxide

Possible counter measure:
http://giving.clevelandclinic.org/articles/drugging-gut-flora

[ConservativeMind]

If your arthritis is Rheumatoid in nature, then yes, you want to keep your internal inflammation as low as possible. Your body is attacking itself.

Consider these:
- More Omega-3s
- Eliminating major Omega-6 oil sources
- More Antioxidants of most any sort from most any source
- Probiotics (some modulate the immune system)
- Take Vitamin D (modulates the immune system)
- Reduce sugars/carbohydrates (sugars are pro-inflammatory)

Stay active and keep your attitude positive.

[tinyowl]

Heh. It’s such a bad joke - both - but there are times when someone has to take the hit for eating the last doughnut.

[Axenolith]

The aliens probably bred that C synthesis gene out so we’d be dependent on their orange, yellow and pink spherical fruits! ;-)

[Jack Hammer]

When are Americans going to realize that bacon, coffee, and cigarettes are the key to long life...?

[arthurus]

I do all of that. No sugar. 3 gm glucosamine & Chondroitin. Family history is a grandmother frozen into a pretty rigid position from her 20s and relatives who ride electric carts in the grocery store because they won’t do all that witch doctor nonsense. They just do what their physician says to do. I take 10k units of D3 and have not had a cold or other virus in 11 years and never a flu shot.

[arthurus]

I do all of that. No sugar. 3 gm glucosamine & Chondroitin. Family history is a grandmother frozen into a pretty rigid position from her 20s and relatives who ride electric carts in the grocery store because they won’t do all that witch doctor nonsense. They just do what their physician says to do. I take 10k units of D3 and have not had a cold or other virus in 11 years and never a flu shot. Lots of 95% curcumin. Since I started the curcumin the psoriasis which I thought was just one of the crotchets of old age has all gone away and other nagging irritations are gone.
I have a daughter who researches all of that stuff minutely and is keeping her immediate relatives pretty healthy sans doctors.