Comments on: A Visual Guide to Antioxidants (Fridge-Friendly!)

By: Daniel Merk

Daniel Merk — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:05:57 +0000

Why does the Wiki Say this:

“…there is evidence that some types of vegetables, and fruits in general, protect against a number of cancers.[133] These observations suggested the idea that antioxidants might help prevent these conditions. However, this hypothesis has now been tested in many clinical trials and does not seem to be true, since antioxidant supplements have no clear effect on the risk of chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease.”

While everyone agrees that eating these foods can prevent “Cancers” its just the whole “free radical / antioxidant” connection to specific health gains, etc is on shakey ground.

When I have these discussion with friends they always tell me I am more prone to gamma rays than having free radicals in my body. Comments?

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By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:43:00 +0000

Mark and team:

I’m curious about glutathione . . . I read Art de Vany’s blog and he talks about taking a glutathione supplement along with your Damage Control. I’m using DC now. Any plans to include glutathione in it? Or should I add on an additional glutathione supplement?

Thanks

Drew

By: Mark Sisson

Mark Sisson — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:08:39 +0000

Chris,

Wow. Good stuff. Sometimes we are so close to this we forget how confusing it can be. CoQ10 is a "co-enzyme". It is vital to human functioning. In fact, it probably should have been given "vitamin" status when they were naming all the vitamins. Many vitamins (and CoQ10)are considered co-enzymes in that they are involved in the operations or manufacturing of actual enzymes (but they are NOT enzymes themselves). Co-enzymes are co-factors upon which some of the larger, more complex enzymes depend to accomplish their tasks. Those larger enzymes are the ones I suggest you can't consume in food and hope that they will have an affect on your health, because the acid in your stomach will break them down before they reach the bloodstream.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:47:55 +0000

From Mark’s excellent argument against raw foodism:
“Fact: You cannot be deficient in enzymes (unless you have a rare genetic condition). You don’t need enzymes from food. Your body has its own digestive enzymes or builds specific enzymes within cells to catalyze biochemical reactions. No amount of living or dead food is going to change that. Don’t fall for enzyme therapy, “curative” enzyme supplements (unless they are digestive enzymes), and diets that focus on enzymes. Some of those juicer infomercials focus on “enzyme benefits” and they drive me nuts (I’ve ranted about this, of course).”

I’m confused here. It seems that Mark is arguing that enzymes don’t have a nutritive benefit. To me, the enzymes they speak of in juicer infomercials would be antioxidant enzymes – ones derived from juicing vegetables. Without getting into why you shouldn’t juice and rather just eat the vegetable, and following the rest of his argument, shouldn’t the exception he makes for enzyme supplements be for antioxidant enzymes rather than digestve ones?