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Re:Antioxidants such as Vitamin C found to spur cancer growt... by GoToRO on Monday September 04, 2023 @11:16AM (#37381297)
I saw a documentary where they presented a study in which they did exactly that: they gave about 7 people high doses of antioxidants. Because antioxidants good. About 3 of them got cancer before they could finish the study. They had to stop the study early.
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Re:Antioxidants such as Vitamin C found to spur cancer growt... by arcticbull on Monday September 04, 2023 @11:18AM (#37381312)
n=7 is pretty small for a nutritional study that didn't even finish. I'd be very wary of relying on that.
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Re:Antioxidants such as Vitamin C found to spur cancer growt... by GoToRO on Monday September 04, 2023 @12:35PM (#37382093)
Nobody is relying on anything. The early results were too scary for people (scientists and patients) to continue.

Anyway, the conclusion was that more antioxidants is not necessarily better and that we still don't understand how things work.

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