Health, Longevity & Biohacking
Antioxidant Supplements Block Natural Cellular Defense Systems by Neutralizing Essential Signals
Dr. Sten Ekberg
#1 Worst SUPPLEMENT You Should NEVER Take
"Free radicals are generated in the body on purpose by design and they are signals. They're part of the system. We produce free radicals as part of normal operations. When we make energy, we produce free radicals. That's just part of the design. And exercise, fasting, basic metabolism, those are all things that use up energy that generate free radicals. And in generating these free radicals, they communicate to cells. These are signals and they tell these cells to activate their defenses to make more energy and to get stronger. Now, if we flood the body with external antioxidants in a pill, now we neutralize these free radicals. we remove the signal before the signals had a chance to do what it was intended to do."
The mechanism by which antioxidant supplements cause harm is that they interfere with the body's natural signaling system. Free radicals generated during exercise, fasting, and metabolism act as signals that trigger cells to activate defense systems and become stronger. External antioxidants neutralize these signals before they can activate the NRF2 switch that turns on the body's own powerful antioxidant defenses, which are millions of times more effective than supplements.
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Dr. Sten Ekberg