so too many antioxidants can be bad? it becomes pro-oxidant?
i have been taking 500 mg of vit c post workout. can i add 100 mg’s of CoQ10 and 400 iu’s of vit e post workout?
come someone shed some light on antioxidants being bad for you?
I’ve never heard of anti-oxidants having the opposite effect after “too much”. I did hear about too many omega fatty acids becoming oxidants after a too big serving.
The only thing I know about for sure, Biochemistry 351 if you need a reference text book I can get it, is that anti-oxidants aren’t as effective in huge doses. Like if you take 100mg of grape seed, and compare it to 200mg of grape seed; the 200mg dose is actually closer to 135mg of effectiveness because anything above 100mg doesn’t do much in your body.
As far as vitamin C goes, they haven’t found an upper limit for supplementation. It doesn’t seem to have any bad effects at any serving, and Linus Pauling (the dude who discovered the structure of the atomic nucleus) was a huge advocate of supplements and he took 11 GRAMS of vitamin C per day!
You can definetly add coQ10 and e post-w/o.
Hope that answers your Q.
how much do you recommend taking of Q10? Im also going to start taking resveratrol (not Rez-V) in the morning on an empty stomach, so how much do you guys recommend taking of res?
If your in yor 20’s, you don’t need CoQ10, even in your early 30’s its debabable.
[quote]Rasclot123 wrote:
If your in yor 20’s, you don’t need CoQ10, even in your early 30’s its debabable.
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not even for BP?
[quote]Rasclot123 wrote:
If your in yor 20’s, you don’t need CoQ10, even in your early 30’s its debabable.
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Debabable might just be the greatest word I have ever heard.
That’s why I personally stick with antioxidants from natural food based sources (phytonutrients). Fruit/berry pigments, green tea, beta carotene, Natural C, resveratrol, beta glucans and polysaccharides from mushrooms (myceutics), etc, etc, and I try to take in the whole food source vs a capsule where I can.
I think if you get a good variety of alot of different sources, like what’s found in Biotest’s Superfood, you’ll easily bridge any gaps in a decent diet, at least where antioxidants are concerned with very little fear of overdosing anything.
I’m not a big fan of supplementing primary antioxidants like CoQ10, SOD, NAC or R-ALA, unless there is a specific reason to do so. Some of these are way too powerful, and can become caustic in high doses.
DJ
I believe Dave Barr wrote an article on antioxident PWO…top 10 PWO myths I think.
[quote]Trenchant wrote:
I believe Dave Barr wrote an article on antioxident PWO…top 10 PWO myths I think.[/quote]
Dave writes great articles, but if you want his opinion, you’re best off contacting him directly for a specific question. Many of his articles here he would at least debate some of the information he wrote on them.
[quote]hockechamp14 wrote:
Trenchant wrote:
I believe Dave Barr wrote an article on antioxident PWO…top 10 PWO myths I think.
Dave writes great articles, but if you want his opinion, you’re best off contacting him directly for a specific question. Many of his articles here he would at least debate some of the information he wrote on them.[/quote]
He’s lost all credibility in my eyes if this is true.
[quote]HK24719 wrote:
hockechamp14 wrote:
Trenchant wrote:
I believe Dave Barr wrote an article on antioxident PWO…top 10 PWO myths I think.
Dave writes great articles, but if you want his opinion, you’re best off contacting him directly for a specific question. Many of his articles here he would at least debate some of the information he wrote on them.
He’s lost all credibility in my eyes if this is true.[/quote]
He’s furthered his learning! He’s big enough to acknowledge new information and methods. I don’t see how that could be a loss to credibility. Even John Berardi does things WAY WAY differently than he did in 2000.