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Longevity science: the theories of ageing – so what do we know about free radicals?

So what do we know? We know that free radicals are the damage makers, the age makers. They are invisible to the naked eye but the damage they do can shorten our lives by vital years. They can force us into wheelchairs. They can scramble our brains. They can wrinkle our skin, weaken our eyesight and hearing and stop our hearts. Free radicals make us old before our time and then in the end they can kill us.

Is there anything that can stop free radicals from doing serious damage? You bet. Cellular cops, called antioxidants. Antioxidants are like a free radical swat team—an elite force of free radical destroyers headed up by Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, and they are what the rest of this book is all about.

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