Are Antioxidant Supplements Worthwhile

Do not use iron and calcium supplements. Calcium is already heavy in the diet, if you have issues cut out oxalates and phytayes (grains, legumes, spinach, kale).
If you have anaemia you need copper, zinc, Folate and B12 not iron.

Creatine is good to take becuase it halves your daily methylation, especially good for people with MTHFR SNP.

Co enzyme Q10 and carnitine are also extremely good, for this eat organ meat (cow heart).

Melatonin is stupid to supplement, take tryptophan rich food (cheese) and some berries at your evening meal to get tryptophan into the brain, it will help you sleep. And also you need vitamin D3.

Saint John’s Wort is used to stimulate the expression of the genes that produce cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYP34A and CYP2D6), increasing hepatic clearance.

The only people who are pregnant are women. Stop the PC crap.

So I should probably have more folic acid (I’m not pregnant)

And I’m pretty sure I’ll never overdose on freaking serotonin

Talk to your doctor yeah sure, the same bunch a people who touted smoking as being beneficial, you betcha. Doctors tell you what makes them money.

Doctors don’t specilize human metabolizism. When you’re young, your metabolism is roaring. You are growing, which uses energy, and your smaller frame has more surface area, so you lose heat, which uses energy, and you are sometimes more active. You need more food per pound of body wieght when you are younger, but your mind thinks it needs to eat like that your whole life. After the age of twenty five, or younger, your body is done doing any growing, and such. So after that, you need less food. Also, every single person is either getting fatter, or thinner. The body doesn’t stay a set weight. Every year you age, your body needs less food, calorie wise, but you still nutrients. As most of you might know, you seem to gain weight, regardless of what you do. Honestly, mos of us over eat, but it doesn’t help that each year your body needs, less, and less energy.By the time you reach your mid thirties, you hardly need to eat, unless you are doing hard physical labor nine hours a day. Okay, how many people are their ideal weight? You? really? You big liar. As you grow older, you lose muscle mass, so you need less calories. So, the simple truth is, you barely need to eat. This is the truth. Try it some times on vacation. Wake up, eat a bowl of dry cereal, and plain coffee. Eat a bowl of dry cereal, and a apple for luch. Then have a very light meal for supper. After two weeks you will lose weight, but you will still be over weight. What is the real pain in the ass is, once you stop taking in calories, your body goes, “Holy smack, I’m starving, and it lowers your metabolism. Bummer man. You get low blood sugar, and might start to beat your kids, but you will not go to you ideal weight. Hey, you might say, “Hey dumb ass, I weight the same as I did when I was sixteen.” Yeah, you also so had twice as much muscle mass at sixteen. So your ideal weight would be less then your sixteen year old self, and that’s not counting, you might have been a lard ass at sixteen. Blah, blah, blah, So what’s the deal? Just eat a whole lot less, and cut out every ounce of fatting food. Coffee and dry toast for breakfast. An apple, and half a sandwich for lunch, and half the amount you are eating now for supper. You just might lose weight, but I doubt it. So lets say you white knuckle it, and starve your body to the right weight. There is no way in hell you are getting the vitimins you need. Just don’t work that way my friend. Take a multi vitamin and you’ll be okay, just not happy. No one on earth die from taking one multi vitamin a day, so don’t let this fool stop you.

Supplements are never as good as Organic, sometimes they aren’t even the same. Beetroot extract pills can lower blood pressure by 8 points. By an organic beetroot drink can lower it as much as 50-60 points. I have noticed no difference between periods where I drink tea and periods when I haven’t. Antioxidants don’t seem to do anything.

Given large enough sample size of people you can find statistically significant results that say wearing red scarf every Friday increases the risk of lung cancer. Or you can find that watching Bob Ross every other day can improve your sperm count.

It is an unfortunate or maybe very fortunate thing that the humans tend to not be very statistically friendly subjects. Our strange smart habits tend to be able to wreck every attempt to make good statistics. And the 21st century with its vast array of medical improvements, as well as vast amounts of ways to damage the human being doesn’t help the statistics at all.

Given our artificial varied environment it is hard to be sure about just about anything research can find. Because just when you think you have counted everything, new facts tend to crawl from under the carpet and ruin your study.

I think supplements are great, even if you eat a healthy diet. Since I started taking them five years ago, I have improved my health. At least take omega3, since almost nobody gets that the natural way, since a lot of food isn’t that natural these days.

Glutathione and vit c are my top 2. Gluta is best absorbed by suppository or IV

Your wrong oregano and cloves are the strongest antioxidants

Thank you for your well researched information. New subscriber here. Trying to get back into a ketogenic lifestyle for all the myriad of health benefits and weight loss.

Love that you say pregnant people and use they them for an all inclusive way of speaking!

Queer Eye? Seriously? The Term “Vitamin E” can mean a number of different substances. MIXED Tocopherols is the only effective “Vitamin E”. “Scientists” (which they are not) choose to ignore the known differences in these substances. Dosage is definitely a huge factor. Why is Vitamin C not mentioned? I’ll tell you why. It’s because large dosages of Vitamin C threatens the huge allopathic medical industry. All natural cures for disease threaten the medical industry. Oh, but it’s only a few billion dollars. That cannot be factor, can it?

The suffixes ic and ous are no longer used to denote oxidation states. At least use the proper chemical terminology if you want to present yourself as having accurate and current info.

My body makes Melatonin only at sunrise. That deep orange low-angled sunshine always makes me depressed and sleepy. I have my energy at night.

to stop oxidative stress stop eating sugar. cut carbs out of your diet.

For crying out loud people, you don’t have to go out of your way for antioxidants. You should all be drinking lots of TEA anyway, especially green tea, especially for anyone trying to lose weight. What else are you going to drink? Other drinks are just sugar water, but you need something good tasting to drink with meals. TEA or bust.

Why doesn’t he mention that Vitamin C is an antiviral and D3 is good for the immune system and these two taken together with zinc will prevent and treat corona virus.

In the pregnancy talk, thank you so much for using lgbt inclusive language ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I saw a documentry once looking at blood serum levels of 2 antioxidant compounds and found supplementation of a blueberry extract lead to a spike in overall blood serum for antioxidants in the short term but lead to a depression far below normal levels over a protracted length of time similar to the insulin blood sugar response. In short supplementing with excess antioxidants reduced overall antioxidants in the blood for a significant period of time.

Cant find the source but it was a tiny sample reproducing an observed phenomenon for tv

Listening to this guy makes me want to drink a bottle of pure grain alcahol������

I thought its because anti-oxidants are best taken as part of the wholefood, so by extracting the supposed anti-oxidants away from the food it loses it’s power. Its like taken the wheels away from a bike because it is the wheels that move forward but without the rest of the bike you go nowhere.

So…is it really a placebo effect…or does sugar cure a lot of stuff? Hmmm. ;0

There may be a difference too to those that are sourced from actual foods, and ones that are not.

Nutrition is very complex with so many chemical interactions you need to keep track under controlled scenarios explains why it’s so damn hard to find a conclusive results, which by themselves, the inconclusive ones we have now, they don’t necessarily mean that anti-oxidants doesn’t work, the correct question should be like, when where and by how much do they do work, cause it’s pretty much nonsense and unlikely to think that they wouldn’t/don’t.

One thing I rarely see people bring up when it comes to supplements is bioavailability. Sometimes people absorb nutrients better from certain foods than other foods… And this is part of the issue with supplements. Yeah, a pill might be chock full of something, but that doesn’t mean it’s gonna actually make it into your system.

i used to take mdma every week for 2 months. almost 1 gram per week.

without the anti-oxidents i would be dead right now. i took multi-vitamins, 4000 vitamin C, 400 E, ALA, ALCA and for serotonin and dopamine production 5htp.

with this combination i got no harm from the MDMA toxic, lots of energy day after and i could take it without loosing the effects because the body wasn’t in trauma after each use since i insert so much anti-oxidents and multi-vitamin.

 B3 specific and 5htp is the combination to make sure your body take the 5Htp and use it for serotonin and dopamine and not for creation of B3 since it’s first in priority.

Maybe try focusing on one compound at a time?

You would think a scientist would be smarter than that.

Oh wait I forgot. You didn’t want to find any benefits in the first place.

does ingesting melatonin effect the feedback loop for it’s production in pineal gland?

Wait a minute. You’re saying this bandaid isn’t helping my cold?

fish oil benefits https://www.eagleeyefitness.com/2020/07/fish-oil-benefits.html

What about acetylcysteine? Nurses that I know say it’s used all the time for everything from asthma/bronchitis to helping reduce damage done to the liver by acetaminophen & alcohol. Apparently it also leads to the production of the antioxidant glutathione. I’ve looked at several studies and it seems like no one can agree what the health effects actually are.

if u make a summer sausage (or any sausage) it helps a bunch to mince up some celery finely into the mix because of its nitrateswhich expand the cell walls, yada yada looks ground beef turns into tasty summer sausageru

Thanks buddy, I almost throw up taking thosr huge pillls everytime. I was always skeptic of them for being not measurable but my dad keeps telling me to take them. Now I’d show him this video and then offer him a mid ground of antioxidant rich diets instead.

I’m surprised that Vitamin D isn’t mentioned, as most people have a deficiency, and it’s critical for your immune system (Covid-19 anyone?).
You get most of your Vitamin D from the sun shining on your skin. The darker your skin, the lower rate at which your body produces it.
This could explain why darker skinned people are more likely to get infected. Being in quarantine doesn’t help the situation.

Most supplements are no replacement for a balanced diet. They have their uses but they’re not as big a deal as some people make them out to be.

I HAVE DELAYED SLEEP PHASE SYNDROME! It’s fairly common (many perhaps even most? people with ADHD also have DSPS) but very few people know what it’s called. SO SO SO exciting to hear Hank name and define it here! I hope this helps more people understand their bodies, and how to get the sleep they need to stay healthy!

Edit: also, unless you like wildly vivid nightmares from the bottommost bowels of hell, do not EVER combine melatonin with alcohol.

Foods that contain antioxidants do NOT provide the human with antioxidants. There’s no evidence that the body absorbs these and makes it its own. Antioxidants are not absorbed by the gut per se. Everything you need is in animal products and maybe some veggies or berries for carbs to fatten up for winter. Also antioxidants do not cancel out oxidants, like the speaker says.

Arrogant people like to think, that people who use natural remedies and supplements is definitely putting themselves in danger for taking them. It could be, but I wonder how many people die from taking supplements, compared to medically prescribed drugs? I bet it’s a lot less, which would make it safer, since 128,000 died of prescribed drugs by their physicians, according to these studies!!!

https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/new-prescription-drugs-major-health-risk-few-offsetting-advantages

How about Co Enzyme Q10? Is it worth taking and if so, how much for an 80kg male?

The safest most effective way to help the body heal itself and stay in optimal health is a whole food healthy diet naturally high in anti oxidants

Once again, old video, sorry. I’ve always been pretty sketch about supplements but I’ll vouch for melatonin. I take Xanax every night for psych issues (legally prescribed, relax), and this makes it harder to enter REM sleep when used long term, and obviously REM sleep is dream sleep when your brain actually gets to recharge. I find 10mg of melatonin a night tends to help me get slightly more restful sleep (though it depends on a multitude of other factors). But it certainly never hurts my sleep, that’s for sure.

I think antioxidant supliments are different from natural antioxidants. I think getting natural antioxidants is much healthier.

They can keep their pills. I will continue making my green juice in my juicer which even my son loved growing up. He would get upset with me if I made some and didn’t save him any.:P I use Kale, Carrots, Celery, and Apples. Heidi

A lot of supplements actually do work and you are healthier..MUCH healthier for using them. But you have to try for yourself to see what does and doesn’t and of course use common sense, research your supplements and use some caution. You can screw yourself up pretty good going willy nilly.. But we usually do that with the crap we eat and expose ourselves to anyway. Just don’t jump on the first thing you hear and actually use your brain.

At 4:04 you say “The one exception for supplements is that a combination of three antioxidants moderately reduce the risk of age-related eye disease”. Would you please elaborate on that (which antioxidants? what study?). Thanks. Great show, as usual.

You can make some vitamins. Sunlight can create Vitamin D.

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I have to take cranberry supplements bc of my frequent and chronic UTIs. No matter what I do, they keep coming around. The supplements help a lot though: ) (they were recommended by a urologist btw)

Cholesterol is so essential to health it keeps you alive when you full of toxins and acids and they blame it for making you ill what a joke it’s like blaming the fire brigade for starting fires.the cholesterol absorbs the toxins like a sponge. And inflammation is the body healing itself you need to look for the toxins and acid that giving you inflammation.

I’m on alot of supplements supplied by my doc, because my body is always deficient from an unknown condition causing my body to not absorb them like it should.

I take vitC 2000 mg,
200 mg vit E mixed tocof,
100mg Q10 fishoil etc..
and all the B vit in a multi for 25 years realy….how much is to much?
Feel great tho!

I know im a little late to the party, but what about Valerian root?

Naah,, Antioxidants supplement will not work.. it will be destroyed by stomach acid.. you need to activate Nrf2 Gene to make glutathione by your own… use resveratrol, kurkumin with black pepper, EGCG, pterostilbene, alpha lipoic acid and much more!:)) and you can do this also by eating right type of fats with short, medium or very long chain fatty acids,, coconut oil, avocado, grass-fed yolk, raw goat kefir, EPA and DHA ( Omega 3 ) avoid canola, sufflower, ETC.. thanks hope thats helps..:)

Sis I just put antioxidants on my face so I don’t get shitty skin later in life

There are studies that show that natural sources of antioxidants work, but supplements don’t. There is a theory that we need the whole package, not just isolated vitamins. Why? Anyone’s guess. Just eat your fruits, berries and greens people. Cutting back a little on meat is also not a bad idea.

It could also be that humans aren’t reliable to take their doses as scheduled. People on a Mediterranean diet due to living conditions/location don’t have a choice but to reliably take the “doses” of antioxidants.

Talk to a doctor? Mine said anyone over 50 has no business at a gym. Also that drugs were better than supplements. Sounded like kickback from drug companies.

Since beet juice allows your vessels to expand, does this work for a stronger erection?

I’m a former drug and alchohol user with many major vitamin deficiencies taking a lot of vitamins has helped me tremendously

Gosh he looks like he’s on flaming speed! Hasn’t stopped moving about. DONT TAKE FOLIC ACID! THIS GUY NEEDS TO GET HIS FACTS CORRECT. YOU NEED FOLATE!! NOT FOLIC ACID!

Consult my doctor? Lol I’m one of those Americans, too poor to afford insurance but not so poor that I own a smartphone. I take vitamins to fool myself into thinking I’m being healthy.

VITAMIN D!! 1 billion people are already deficient in vitamin D according to the Vitamin D council that +30 doctors from several countries participate. Vitamin D is now (for 30 years really) being recognized as a steroid hormone not a vitamin because of its role in the methylation process of an altered gene. The Japanese are trying to find a vitamina D that does not cause hypercalcemia (high calcium), and I am sure once they find that the price of Vitamin D will be quite different. Since people are much more indoors in the last decades, use sun protection, and do not eat very healthy, this deficiency is not surprising. Also Folic Acid can be obtained eating raw dark green leaves but if you cook them, no vitamina B9 anymore. Important too for the methylation process.

A healthy diet with great variety of fruit and vegetables will always be more beneficial than eating processed foods and taking supplements.

Some missinformation you gave out Scishow; Folic Acid supplements aren’t effective at providing us with Foliate, which is the actual substance required by the human body, especially women before pregnancy. Our bodies can’t use Folic Acid at all and, the speed we convert Folic Acid to Foliate in our bodies is very very low.

So inadequate that undesirable amounts of Folic Acid build up inside of us. It’s not helpfull because our Foliate receptors appear to prefer to team up with the useless Folic Acid before the essential Foliate has even had an opportunity to attach to the receptors.

Oftentimes then the more folks are showing Foliate deficiency then the longer they most probably persist in consuming the hopeless Folic Acid. Any little precious amount of Foliate laboriously hard won from all these moumtains of Folic Acid hanging about in the bloodstream and body tissues in all likelyhood completely wasted.