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minus-squareLoamImprovement@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoSo I know it’s a joke, but isn’t this why dietary antioxidants are good for you, is because they literally help inhibit the oxidation of your body?
minus-squareaname@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoAlso pure oxygen is bad long term
minus-squarezagaberoo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoOxygen ravages electrons all day at the end of the electron transport chain and nobody bats an eye, but you steal one pair off some DNA and everybody loses their minds!
So I know it’s a joke, but isn’t this why dietary antioxidants are good for you, is because they literally help inhibit the oxidation of your body?
Also pure oxygen is bad long term
Oxygen ravages electrons all day at the end of the electron transport chain and nobody bats an eye, but you steal one pair off some DNA and everybody loses their minds!