Can Antioxidants Make You Look Younger?

In my view antioxidants do work to help keep the skin young. However, this is another area in which the marketing is way ahead of the scientific literature.The theory is that the sun and external toxins (air pollution, smoke etc.) place our skin and bodies under oxidative stress. It does this by producing free radicals.Basically, free radicals are molecules lacking an electron in its outer shell. They buzz around and aggressively try to snatch an electron from another molecule. It... more