Benny, benny, once again you are demonstrating the stereotypical response that typifies what has happened to the understanding of true science. Even more sad because I guess you are of my own generation and seem to have had a reasonable education.
You've not read or understood my points and you have demonstrated that you don't know how to read a simple technical document. This is why your ilk have got the global warming so wrong. You are incapable of critical reading and analytical thinking.
I have never said that the drug in question was not an antioxidant. The graph you reproduce is all very pretty and I'm even prepared to accept on face value that it is a better antioxidant than Vitamin E and other antioxidants. But please....in what context? There is nothing in any of the material you show that the data collected is other than in vitro lab testing. It's one thing to show a substance is a whizz bang antioxidant in a test tube but a whole other thing a) to show that it does the same thing in the human body and b) that it has any beneficial effect in the human body. There is even a good deal of controversy about the value of vitamin E supplements themselves.
Are you getting the picture here? Mercola is flogging all sorts of whizz bang molecules but dshow us the evidence that they do any good other than to expand Mercola's bank account?
Let's go a little further. Your next howler is to quote from Wikipedia. If one of my students (in the old days when I was an academic) wrote me an essay with a wikipedia quote in it, he would have been tarred and feathered. Wikipedia for all its manifold benefits is not a scientific journal. That said, let's see what they say. Did you read what I said in my previous post about weasel words? I've underlined them for you.
may be beneficial in cardiovascular, immune, inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases.
[30] Some research supports
the assumption that it
may protect body tissues from oxidative and ultraviolet damage through its suppression of
NF-κB activation.
[31][32] In addition to the compound’s powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative capabilities, evidence indicates that astaxanthin has the
potential to modulate aging
Do you see what you have done? You have taken an article from a non-science website that contains all sorts of tempting come ons but not a single piece of data from a clinical trial to support those juicy little morsels.
Disallowed!!
