Antioxidant Timing

[krrh]

Article in this week’s Economist

http://tinyurl.com/wineinvitro

Based on these results, Dr Kanner and his colleagues argue that looking for antioxidants from wine in the bloodstream was a mistake; they do not need to be there to be useful. Their research also suggests that the habit of eating fruit at the end of a meal is a healthy one. Many fruits, too, are rich in polyphenols (wine is, after all, just fermented fruit juice). By treating them as dessert, these fruits arrive in the stomach at the point when meat-digestion is poised to do its worst–nipping the problem in the bud, as it were.

The study cited in the article seems to suggest that a lot of the more powerful antioxidants we’ve been chasing have a bigger effect in the stomach than in the bloodstream. It particularly suggests that taking in high antioxidant foods or supplements during or following a meal may vastly increase its effect.

Is antioxidant timing bound to be a new trend? I’m thinking that spreading a Superfood dose across meals rather than all at once may also be a good move.

[gi2eg]

Interesting, Thanks

[Oquendog]

Excellent find.

However, anti-oxidant timing isn’t a new trend, it’s been around for quite sometime; including in the majority (if not all) of Dr.Berardi’s articles, and the majority of the Coaches that publish here.

[krrh]

[quote]Oquendog wrote:
However, anti-oxidant timing isn’t a new trend, it’s been around for quite sometime; including in the majority (if not all) of Dr.Berardi’s articles, and the majority of the Coaches that publish here.
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I don’t read testosterone as much as I used to but my impression is that there used to be a lot of discussion about timing anti-oxidants sometime post-exercise to counter exercise induced oxidative stress, rather than post or at the same time as protein, and specifically meat, intake.

The discussions around Superfood also seem to imply that you are fine to take a single dose in the morning on an empty stomach and it’s somehow the equivalent of getting 10 fruits and vegetables spaced throughout the day.

I know that Berardi encourages fruit intake with mealsin Precision Nutrition, but he seems to focus more on the addition of vegetables to a meal to reduce the blood acidity from high protein intake.

I would appreciate if you were able to point me towards any articles that specifically discussed the science related to spreading out high antioxidant foods or matching them against high protein meals (the search on this site is still the weakest part).

[Oquendog]

Ah, let me clarify.

The majority of the Authors here usually discuss taking in high amounts of vegetables and fruits everyday to possibly reach a state of Alkalizing due to high-protein diets.

Now, specifically they’ll request that the readers eat Fruits and Vegetables with every meal; but in terms of them specifically mentioning reasons as to ‘why’, I don’t believe there to be any articles stating as such.

Dr.Berardi would be the first place I would look, the majority of the ‘why’ this happens to the body when I consume ‘x’ is where I usually take my references if you wanted to give it a try; I don’t think I’d be able to give you an article specifically as he usually gives his reasoning in quips while on a specific topic.