[snippage]
> Iron is a
> powerful catalyst of one electron oxidation and so reduction of iron
> load will lead to life extension in all other subgroups. This should
> be self evident to all doctors.
Maybe. From:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/b5157486m8q1348l/
Role of antioxidant nutrients in aging: Overview
Journal AGE
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 0161-9152 (Print) 1574-4647 (Online)
Issue Volume 18, Number 2 / April, 1995
Pages 51-62
Subject Collection Biomedical and Life Sciences
SpringerLink Date Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Role of antioxidant nutrients in aging: Overview
Denham Harman1
(1) Department of Medicine, University of Nebraska College of Medicine,
Omaha, Nebraska, 68198-4635
Abstract
Aging is the ac***ulation of changes that increase the risk of death.
There
is a growing consensus that the aging changes are caused by free radical
reactions; mainly initiated by the mitochondria at an increasing rate with
age, while life span is determined by the rate of such damage to the
mitochondria. The inborn aging process, i.e., the superoxide radicals and
H2O2 formed by the mitochondria in the course of normal metabolism, is the
major risk factor for disease and death after about age 28 in the
developed
countries.
An antioxidant nutrient is a compound present naturally in the diet, or
added to it, which lowers the rate of production of deleterious changes by
free radical reactions without significantly impairing the essential
reactions involved in body maintenance and function.
The beneficial effects of antioxidant nutrients are now sup****ted by many
studies, including those that have increased life span and lowered disease
incidence.
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