{"id":2631,"date":"2008-02-20T12:31:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2021-03-22T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:49:33","slug":"antioxidants-and-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/antioxidants-and-exercise","title":{"rendered":"Antioxidants and Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.dredelberg.com\/newsletters\/080220WHC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for the original post.<\/p>\n<p>If you study nutritional medicine long enough, some concepts make good intuitive sense, but then you find nobody has done a study to verify the assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always struck me that if you did aerobic exercise&#8211;you know, the huff-puff of jumping jacks or other high-intensity activity&#8211;you\u2019d get a greater benefit if you had a lot of antioxidants in your system. The antioxidants would mop up the bad oxygen molecules called free radicals and allow your body to get the maximum oxygenation benefit all your effort deserves.<\/p>\n<p>In the medical journal <em>Research in Sports Medicine<\/em>, physicians from Islamic Azad University in Iran divided young healthy men into four groups, the first three taking vitamins C, or E, or both. The fourth group took nothing. Using sprinting as the aerobic parameter, all three groups taking supplements performed significantly better than the non-users.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, then, as long as you\u2019re out there being vigorous, you might as well get the most bang for your buck by taking an antioxidant. I suggest <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.wholehealthchicago.com\/clinical-nutrients-antioxidant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clinical Nutrient Antioxidants<\/a> as a formula that actually one-ups the one used by the Iranians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for the original post. If you study nutritional medicine long enough, some concepts make good intuitive sense, but then you find nobody has done a study to verify the assumptions. It\u2019s always struck me that if you did aerobic exercise&#8211;you know, the huff-puff of jumping jacks or other high-intensity activity&#8211;you\u2019d get a greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2087,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,151,398,3,43],"tags":[210,221],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","category-blog","category-e","category-fitness-exercise","category-knowledge-base","category-nutrition-nutritional-supplements-vitamins-herbal-remedies","tag-antioxidants","tag-exercise"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Antioxidants and Exercise - WholeHealth Chicago<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/antioxidants-and-exercise\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antioxidants and Exercise - WholeHealth Chicago\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Click here for the original post. 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