Ep 163: Actives, Antioxidants, and the Truth About Topicals
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The Benefits of Antioxidants
Antioxidants are preventative because they're preventing this oxidation. They can stop that from happening at many different levels in the cell. If you're exposed to ultraviolet light, pollution and perhaps some other toxins, you generate these molecules in the cell called oxygen free radicals. So when we're talking about antioxidants, we'retalking about interrupting that entire process That ends up causing ultimately mutations to the cell that result in potentially either cell death or cancer.
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