HOTB 194: Antioxidants are great! But why?
Healing Outside The Box
English - November 10, 2018 17:51 - 17 minutes - 13.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNutrition Health & Fitness Alternative Health foodsafety healthyeating preventativenutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We've been all told to eat lots of colorful fruits and vegetables to get plenty of antioxidants. But how do they help us and, more to the point, why do we need them so badly? I look into this in this week's episode.
Before I get into the antioxidants, I want to tell you about a couple of studies I ran across discussing the cardiovascular effects of all those energy drinks we're consuming now. Nutrition facts.org has a short video that sums it up quite nicely. Another NIH study looked at the cardiovascular effects of energy drinks and found that there is blood flow resistance going to the brain with the strength compared to placebo. The reduction in blood flow to the brain was worse in women than men. Another study from the European Journal of nutrition also showed reduction in blood flow to the brain with energy drinks, both in men and women.
If you have any questions or would like to list of popular antioxidants, feel free to reach out to me on my website contact page, which is healing outside the box.