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research is coming out all the time that seems to indicate antioxidants can
prevent cancer, strengthen your immune system and even keep you from aging.
Antioxidants work by sucking up free radicals that can damage your body's cells
and transporting them to the liver where eventually they exit the body.
Heart Disease in particular has been the subject of recent studies. Researchers
in Italy examined three hundred and seven middle aged women for Atherosclerosis.
This is the formation of plaques and lesions in the coronary arteries, which can
signal the development of cardiovascular disease years before a doctor diagnosis's
it. These women did not take vitamin supplements containing vitamins A, C or E.
The researchers took blood samples to measure the women's baseline level of
various antioxidants, took questionnaires and performed ultrasound examinations of
their carotid arteries and branches of the heart. They found that women who had
plaques building in their arteries had a low intake of vitamin E. Women with the
lowest baseline concentrations of Vitamin E in their blood were twice as likely to
have plaque build up in their carotid arteries and branches of the heart.
In a side note some promising research has come up relating to breast cancer in
women. Researchers gave thirty-two women between the ages of thirty-two and
eighty-one with metastasized breast cancer a multivitamin supplement. It
contained vitamin C, E, Beta Carotene, selenium, coenzyme Q10 and other vitamins
and minerals daily for eighteen months. None of the patients died during this
period, which is wonderful because without supplements it could be expected that
at least four of the volunteers would have died. Also the cancer in each of the
patients appeared to stop spreading. Six of the patients showed partial
remission. One of the six patients in partial remission had her dosage of
coenzyme Q10 increased to 390mg daily and within two months her tumor could no
longer be seen on a mammogram.
Antioxidants are beneficial but they seem to be able to do only do so much. In a
French study publicized in 2004 it was found that antioxidants tended to benefit
men more than women. The Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche
Medicale and Unite de Surveillance et d'Epidemiologie Nutritionnelle studied the
effects of taking supplements in more than thirteen thousand men and women for
seven and a half years. The participants were divided into groups, each one
taking a different antioxidant daily. The antioxidants were ascorbic acid,
Vitamin E, Beta Carotene, Selenium, Zinc and a placebo. At the end of the study
they found that the men who took antioxidants were thirty-one percent less likely
to develop cancer than women. Some of us women may be automatically thinking what
a sexist finding! While it is possible that antioxidants are simply more
effective in men it's not probable. It is more likely that the men had a lower
baseline of antioxidants in their bloodstream than women, in other words women may
have a better diet than men with lots of antioxidants and their baselines were
already high. So the antioxidants that men took simply brought the men's baseline
up and the antioxidants that women took may have been superfluous.
As a result of this study the researchers suggested that you are able to get a
high and beneficial level of antioxidants in your blood with a diet containing
lots of fruits and veggies.
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