Antioxidants Need Pro-oxidant Foods for Vasodilator Function Balance

Antioxidants Need Pro-oxidant Foods for Vasodilator Function Balance AOC Health

In 2010 scientists at Kansas State University cautioned nutritionists that while antioxidants are very important, it’s possible to eat too many superfoods, overdosing on too much good stuff.

Antioxidants slow down the damage done to muscles and other organs, whereas the pro-oxidants speed it up.

Steven Copp, who took part in the research published in the Journal of Applied Physiology in 2010, says: ‘People don’t realise that the antioxidant and pro-oxidant balance is really delicate.