Antioxidant Causes Diabetes

One paper from the journal Cell Metabolism, study about the connection between antioxidant and diabetes. Some mice given antioxidants were more likely to become diabetic, because free radicals help muscle cells respond to insulin.

We know that free radicals caused heart disease, cancer and so on. Most of us take antioxidant vitamints to help get rid of these unwanted toxin. May be we don’t have to do it. Because a study in the journal Cell Metabolism says that some amount of free radicals can be good for us.

We produce free radicals naturally as we metabolize food, and we make large amount of them when we eat too much food. That’s why people who eat a lot of food have risk of becoming obese and developing diabetes.

Free radicals can help muscle cells respond to insulin. So, mice that can’t get rid of their free radicals actually do well on a high-fat diet, and it’s only when they’re given antioxidants that they get diabetes.

Written by SAA