SciShow: Are Antioxidants Actually Good for Anything?

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Content of the Lesson: There's evidence that antioxidant-rich diets have health benefits in humans, but the antioxidant chemicals and enzymes seem to be only part of the puzzle. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPIQ7YhE4cE https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/antioxidants/ https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/63/6/985S/4650777 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11594942 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11594943%20 https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007176.pub2/abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15769967%20 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15998891 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6557906 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2927345/ https://www.cbhs.com.au/health-well-being-blog/blog-article/2015/03/12/are-antioxidant-supplements-good-bad-or-completely-unnecessary- https://theconversation.com/what-are-antioxidants-and-are-they-truly-good-for-us-86062 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.2009.10718117?casa_token=t-Qn2CytmvIAAAAA:8sNwz3e0PxuYvEfF2Dk7MXUAl9uUKCQHZ_Z25O0iL4WOg15pqELwbNITAtfbiozWmR4wIwuA7RyHvg https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673602114723 https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-disease/jad111799


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