high doses of antioxidants may interfere with DNA repair

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Too many vitamin tablets could be bad for your health

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“Dr Marbán thinks that at such high levels, the antioxidants impede the

enzyme that corrects the errors that occur frequently when DNA is duplicated

during cell division. Indeed, he has shown that a mix of vitamins C and E

could also impede the enzyme that repairs our DNA from doing its job.

Tellingly, he repeated the experiment using unnaturally high levels of the

antioxidants produced by the body itself, such as catalase. Again, the

cancer-fighting DNA repair enzyme was hindered. " This suggests to us that it

was the antioxidant properties, rather than peculiar chemical properties of

these two vitamins, that prevented DNA repair, " he says.”

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