Minimum Recommended Daily Allowance of Antioxidants
Channel: Healthy Eating Healthy Habits Healthy ME.
Date: 15/04/2019

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DESCRIPTION: How many antioxidant-rich foods do we need to eat every day just to stay out of oxidative debt?

If those citrus phytonutrients sounded familiar to you, it's because I mentioned them before in videos like Keeping Your Hands Warm With Citrus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/keepi...) and Reducing Muscle Fatigue With Citrus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reduc...). It's still better to eat the whole fruit though (See Best Fruit Juice, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-... and Apple Juice May Be Worse Than Sugar Water, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/apple...).

Digestion isn't the only physiological source of free radicals—exercise is too. See Preventing Exercise-Induced Oxidative Stress With Watercress (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preve...). 

Background on the role free radicals play in aging and disease can be found in my video Mitochondrial Theory of Aging (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mitoc...). Antioxidant rich diets can even change gene expression: Plant-Based Diets and Cellular Stress Defenses (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant...).

Is there a refined sweetener that doesn't cause free radical formation? Yes: Erythritol May Be a Sweet Antioxidant (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eryth...).

What's the best way of reaching our daily minimum of 8-11,000 antioxidant units a day? So glad you asked! Covered in my next video, How to Reach the Antioxidant RDA (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-t...).

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/minim... and he'll try to answer it!

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