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Antioxydants : How much do they help YOU?


 
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View Poll Results: Antioxydants - Significant help or money wasted?
Money down the drain, they are 4 2.74%
They help me a little bit, but not significantly 41 28.08%
They help significantly but not hugely 40 27.40%
They help very significantly 52 35.62%
They change my life 9 6.16%
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Old 09-28-2004, 09:46 AM   #1
 
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Antioxydants : How much do they help YOU?
How do you value antioxydant intake in your training?

Does taking vitamins E and C, Beta Carotene and selenium, green tea extract and ALA make you leaner, bigger, better, stronger, more energetic, or not?

Personally, I find that they are quite significant in my progress. They let me be bigger, stronger and more lean. I recuperate significantly better from my workouts as compared with not taking them.
 
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I swear by Green tea Extract...Stuff is awsome and cheap too..Plus it's one hell of a fat burner..
 
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Old 09-28-2004, 11:32 AM   #3
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Vitamin C, E is all you really need. Other ones such as Green Tea has some more benefits but some don't react well to caffeine.
 


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taking vitamins is very important to people living the bodybuilding lifestyle. our clean diets and hard training make our metabolism much faster. with increased metabolism comes more free radicals (unstable molecules) in the body. vitamins E and C are the best antioxidents to take to combat this; as free radicals can cause a number of problems in the body.
 
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The Antioxidant Miracle really good read. Based on research at the Packard Labs in CA. Antioxidants are scientifically proven to play a vital role in health and longevity, not really something you see immediate results with or a significant boost in performance though...
 


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Many of the compounds touted as powerful antioxidants, grape seed, green tea et cetera, have numerous benefits outside of their ability to capture free radicals.

I swear by grape seed extract.
 




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They haven't given me a training advantage, but there's too much good literature on anti-oxidants that it would only make sense to take them for health reasons. I personally take

1000 mg vitamin C with 500 mg Bioflavonoids
600 IU vitamin E
320 mg Green Tea extract
600 mg NAC
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I swear by Green tea Extract...Stuff is awsome and cheap too..Plus it's one hell of a fat burner..
Hey MaDmaN, I just got some bulk green tea extract powder from 1fast. How much do you take per day for fat burning purposes?
 
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W00t? There's no way wer're getting more than 8 people answering this important aspect of nutrition???

Yeah, and how much green tea?

Geez, 8 samples is statistical crap
 
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I'm all about vitamin C, 2-4 grams daily

I drink diet green tea heavily now, but I'm not going back to even more damn caps, lol. It (extract) didn't seem to do much for me in the way of fat burning, energy was good though.
 
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The 95% stuff from BAC is pretty good. I'm not that great at cutting but it seems to help plus I can definitely feel it working on the old noggin.
 




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taking vitamins is very important to people living the bodybuilding lifestyle. our clean diets and hard training make our metabolism much faster. with increased metabolism comes more free radicals (unstable molecules) in the body. vitamins E and C are the best antioxidents to take to combat this; as free radicals can cause a number of problems in the body.
that sure sounds familiar.
 
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that sure sounds familiar.
haha yeah, guess that was one of the days i was paying attention in class
 
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I can swear by green tea. I buy it in bulk from Custom.

Using 3g a day...
 
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I drink green tea, red tea, oolong tea, white tea, and coffee all the time. They all are said to be loaded with antioxidants. I almost forgot I like to drink pomagranat juice from time to time also. Other than that I just take a vitamin and some b-5 every day to control my acne. Also I eat lots of fruit and If I remeber right berries are suppose to be high in antioxidants.
 
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Vitamin C (high doses)
Vitamin E
Green Tea

All antioxidants I swear by, and use everyday.
 
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Vitamin C (high doses)
Vitamin E
Green Tea

All antioxidants I swear by, and use everyday.
All this support..... I may have to reconsider my initial judgment of them.. The only antioxidant I've ever taken was 500mg of vitamin C a day...... but I stopped that long ago.
 
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