I finished off the pervious article on free radicals and antioxidants by saying that “free radicals are as good as they are bad”. In fact, Mr Bortz of Stanford University Medical School goes on to say that antioxidants given in high doses may do the body harm. But as yet we don’t know which ones…it’s a very complicated story.

Free Radicals and Antioxidants are now seen to have a dual role within our bodies playing the parts of the good guys as well as the bad guys. So handle with care the information given to you by those who are selling antioxidants. For every study showing the benefits of antioxidants there is another study that doesn’t.

In previous years the majority of us bought it, including me, and by that I mean the good luck story and the product. So my advice at this point in time is to review your own take on antioxidants and consider reducing your supplement dosage levels and increasing your consumption of foods which contain the main players. Some of the more common ones are vitamin C and E and beta carotene along with selenium.

Our bodies are designed to breathe oxygen. The very process of breathing oxygen produces free radicals, and our bodies are more than capable of mopping up these given the right tools, antioxidants which naturally occur in certain food stuffs. So there you have it. There is no substitute for a good and varied diet. If you feel the need to supplement with certain antioxidants then do so wisely and with low dosage levels.

Food for Thought.