Pills don't solve free-radical diseases ?

[anthrax]

Read on CNN:

Rheumatologist L. Gail Darlington, MD, FRCP, Epsom Hospital, England, is an expert on the effects of diet on arthritis. She says that antioxidants play a complex role in human health.
She says that antioxidants play a complex role in human health.

"The high-antioxidant diet is rational in theory, but supplementing one's diet with artificial antioxidants in capsules or tablets has been shown to have problems," Darlington tells WebMD. "It is too simplistic to give antioxidants in supplement form. It is logical to take them in a diet full of fish and vegetables. But you cannot give it in a pill and expect it to solve free-radical diseases."

Have you ever heard about it ?
Pills are certainly not as efficient as real food but could they be harmful ?

 

[BackDoc]

Did she specify any other free radical diseases?

If she is talking about cure then she could be right for most things. If a condition is characterized by high free radicals and is prevented by removing or neutralizing said free radicals before the actual disease process starts, then I probably agree.

However, some forms of heart and liver disease have been associated with excessive free radicals and apparent removal of the free radicals seems to help the condition. As for a cure, if what is causing the free radicals is not changed, then any treatment at all is likely to be missing the point.

As to free radical quenchers being dangerous, I think they can be in some circumstances over a long period of time. No need to go into the full specifics right now, but this is exactly the reason I changed from CoQ10 to Idebenone.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[danielson]

Did she specify any other free radical diseases?

If she is talking about cure then she could be right for most things. If a condition is characterized by high free radicals and is prevented by removing or neutralizing said free radicals before the actual disease process starts, then I probably agree.

However, some forms of heart and liver disease have been associated with excessive free radicals and apparent removal of the free radicals seems to help the condition. As for a cure, if what is causing the free radicals is not changed, then any treatment at all is likely to be missing the point.

As to free radical quenchers being dangerous, I think they can be in some circumstances over a long period of time. No need to go into the full specifics right now, but this is exactly the reason I changed from CoQ10 to Idebenone.

Thanks for the heads up.

id be curious as to the long term health risks myself....liver damage? or associated risks from higher than normal exposure to vitmains (such as the proposed link to megadosing vit C and athersclerosis i read a while back)? no need to go into the full 'mechanics; of it, just a quickish abstract sort of thing thanx