Recently I started to think about how bad are antioxidants for our health. Actually I don’t know if they are bad, this was my question about. I started to use some types of antioxidants some years ago. I’m currently taking antioxidant called OP3 which you can find in a powder form. I was always taking antioxidants without any troubles, but some days ago I started to ask myself if too much antioxidants are good or bad for my health. Okay, obviously I’m not talking about the antioxidants that you can take from fruits or veggies; I’m talking about those types of antioxidants that are kind of supplements for our health. I have heard something while I was watching on a TV show where a person discussed about antioxidants and he told a story about how after some years of administration he observed that his health is becoming gradually worse.
It sounds strange but this started to make me feel worried and concerned about my health and what waits me in the future. I use antioxidants for more than 2 years and after this story I don’t know if I have to do it more and if I should continue to use them. I usually use powder antioxidants that you can mix with water and drink it. Another question that is also interesting for me is to find out if multi vitamin are good too and it there could be too much for my body which could lead to an negative effect? I think that there are so many people that are overdoing with all these stuff that maybe even doesn’t know about this, and I’m almost sure that some of disease that we have could be because of this. It can be, because we use antioxidants and when we feel sick we search all the possible things that could provoke our disease but we don’t pay attention to things we consider that are good for our health. It’s normal I thing, everything that is considered to be good for our health and for our welfare we don’t think that is supposed to change our health condition and sometimes to a worse condition. Thanks God we live in a time where we can find such a thing very easily in the internet and million types of information, forums and comments about all the stuff that we need.
A little bit about antioxidants for those who doesn’t know what this is. The better way to explain is to give you an example. First of all think that our bodies is going through different types of pollution every day, some of these pollution are made because of the environment and because of the place that is polluted. Another pollution in our body are provoked because of our life choices that we make, I’m talking about the fact that most of us are smoking, eating different processed or fast foods, also there’s stress, not sleeping enough is another factor… All of these are very harmful for our bodies and it is even more worse than you think. Obviously as all of us know our body has a thing that we can call “purification system” which is important in order to survive. Just imagine what would be to eat all the things that you want, to smoke and to do all other types of wrong things with a body that can’t detoxificate itself. We’ll die, obviously and we’ll die pretty soon after doin’ it. That’s why there exist such things as good and bad radicals in our body. Good radicals are created by things called antioxidants that are as engine for our purification system that provide the possibility to work better and to eliminate those toxins that were introduced in our bodies.
Anyway there are different types of antioxidants such as there exist different types of engines. The natural antioxidants are really good for our health, but the biggest part of people don’t love to eat veggies and fruits that’s why people invented the artificial antioxidants that are a “lower quality engine”, at least that’s how I’m calling them. I understand very well that using natural antioxidants are better and I understand that it will be better to change this habit. But I would like to make other people understand that want to try these types of artificial antioxidants why they should avoid it. I’m by far not the biggest expert in these things but after some years of administration I suddenly understood that even if these antioxidants are made to help out our health actually they have some chemicals, and if we use them frequently they could damage our health pretty bad. I’m not sure how they damage it and I can’t explain all the process but I’m pretty sure they do it which is why we should be more prudent and careful about it. So, I’m here to open the question about antioxidants, to warn other people before they start to use antioxidants, and to find some other information about antioxidants. I really want to know your opinion. What do you think, am I right? Really exciting and waiting for your answers!