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Re: [ACEsthetics] antioxidants and real data- nothing to sell here
What Rick's article (as well as the SciAm one) highlights is that those with known diseases or nutrient deficiencies can benefit by supplementing and compensating for those deficiencies. Those without said deficiencies are not helped (and even potentially harmed) by an excess of whatever compounds they are taking.
Which makes perfect sense and has been supported by the basic science and epidemiological studies for years.
Our bodies are not clunky machines that are unable to handle the stresses that confront it on a daily basis and thus require our constant tinkering and adjusting. They have evolved over hundreds of millions of years (or 6000 if you're in Kansas as I am) to exquisitely balance its nutritional needs, its methods of dealing with such things as free radicals (which are both harmful and helpful, so a shotgun approach of "anti-oxidizing" is simplistic), and other homeostatic mechanisms. Its only when things get "out of whack" through genetics, pathology, or other dysfunction that we need to tweak things. The paradigm of "if a little is good, then a lot must be better" is the hallmark of the SCAM community (Supplements, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine). If they read that Molecule X has a certain desirable effect on a biological process at the cellular level, they tend to assume that they should supplement with it, even though on the level of the organism it has no effect. They like to call themselves holistic, but this myopic approach is the opposite of holism.
In a message dated 3/24/2013 9:41:06 A.M. Central Daylight Time, tshewman@insight.rr.com writes:
Rick – the reason I ask is the "HOPE" study (just one of the references) is a study that involves (and used) for the advocacy of ACE Inhibitors. Yet the article makes no mention of that........????? How do I know? I formerly worked for one of the companies that used it (the HOPE study) and sold ACE inhibitors. Another example of taking the research COMPLETELY out of context and not even making the proper comparisons!
This is precisely why it's important to understand the process and not just follow an article. IMHO.
Will work my way through some of the others as time permits.
From: tshewman
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:12 AM
To: riccoker@gmail.com ; Ace
Subject: Re: [ACEsthetics] antioxidants and real data- nothing to sell here
Seriously?
Rick – how many of the cited articles did you read?
From: Rick Coker
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 9:55 AM
To: Ace
Subject: [ACEsthetics] antioxidants and real data- nothing to sell here
Great article:
-- Rick --
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