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Do antioxydants really help us live longer?

Published: 3 March 2009

In the journal PloS Genetics, biologist Siegfried Hekimi demonstrates that worms that have been genetically modified to be less effective at antioxydation -- the elimination of free radicals -- live just as long as regular worms.  One of the modified worms actually lived longer than normal.

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