Excessive Antioxidant Activity Risk Factor For Type II Diabetes

"Denman Harman, the original developer of the free radical theory of aging, has argued that, yes, there is such a thing as too much antioxidants. He found that taking too much antioxidant vitamins made him feel sluggish. This makes sense. Starting in the 1970s scientists have discovered that free radicals to be involved in an increasing number of signalling pathways in the body. If all our free radicals were quenched by extremely powerful antioxidants we'd literally die and rather quickly."

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