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minus-squareLoamImprovement@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 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-squarezagaberoo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 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!
minus-squareaname@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoAlso pure oxygen is bad long term
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?
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!
Also pure oxygen is bad long term