Instead of flooding the body with a finished antioxidant, you can give it raw materials like Galignac supplements and let it self-regulate how much it needs to produce.

In young people, taking high-dose antioxidant vitamins like C and E around a workout can blunt the signal your body needs to adapt and build muscle.

The idea that a full-spectrum form of a vitamin, like tocotrienols for vitamin E, is safer than the synthetic form is an unproven assumption with no long-term trial data.

In a large trial, healthy men taking a common megadose of vitamin E (400 IU) ended up with significantly more prostate cancer.

In the presence of excess iron from tissue damage, a massive dose of vitamin C can reverse its function and start producing harmful free radicals.

Longevity drugs such as metformin and resveratrol can blunt the positive effects of resistance training, leading to less muscle gain compared to a placebo.

While antioxidants can hinder young exercisers, in older adults, whose bodies have more oxidative stress, antioxidant supplements paired with exercise can be more effective than exercise alone.

Supplement labels boasting hundreds or thousands of percent of the recommended daily intake should be treated as a warning sign, not a selling point.

The same antioxidants that protect the eyes, lutein and zeaxanthin, also build up in the brain and have been shown to improve attention and processing speed.