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RESVERATROL, Exercise & Antioxidants: Don’t Make This MISTAKE! (ep. 3)

The Wellness Messiah​ Podcast

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The Effects of Antioxidants on Mortality and Longevity in Humans

In a study, the researchers took worms and they gave them chemicals that simulated low sugar nutrition. They measured the natural antioxidant defense of these worms before giving them antioxidants. Dr. Davison Clier found that yeast, when they were giving antioxidant, lived shorter. But besides yeast, also in Sinclair's own lab, he found that giving worms antioxidants reduces their longevity. This phenomenon happens because when we take chronically external antioxidants, it can turn off the natural antioxidant system.

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