@gorskon @CaulfieldTim @MarkHoofnagle pinging you all.
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I stand by it. Advertising anti-oxidant properties is evidence of bunkum, because on the whole the evidence shows they increase mortality vs do nothing. If there's an edge case (vit C treats scurvy!) great fine. But antioxidant !=good or safe and people who use it so go quack.
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Thank you all for chiming in!
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It's on PubMed, you are smart enough to find. The JAMA is not high quality, two of the three increase-mortality suspects are not something we would prescribe to a person with normal nutrition, so studying those was a waste of money. The hasty generalization fallacy demonstrated
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here is "antioxidants cause mortality " when this study showed that was not the case for several micronutrients. We haven't even discussed whether appropriate dosing was used.
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