Anybody Feeling "Enlightened" Yet?

"Antioxidant supplements appear to cancel out many of the beneficial effects of exercise. Soaking up those transient bursts of reactive oxygen species keeps them from signaling. Looked at the other way, oxidative stress could be a key to preventing type II diabetes. Glucose uptake and insulin sensitivity aren’t affected by exercise if you’re taking supplementary amounts of vitamins C and E, and this effect is seen all the way down to molecular markers such as the PPAR coactivator proteins PGC1 alpha and beta. . . . I think that there’s enough evidence to go ahead and say it: exercise and antioxidants work against each other. The whole take-antioxidants-for-better-health idea, which has been taking some hits in recent years, has just taken another big one."

-- Derek Lowe, discovering what we've been trying to tell you (in no uncertain terms) in as many ways as possible - as well as how ugly it gets when we see what everyone's been really supporting: it's a barrel of shit, but that's what's In The Pipeline.