4: Dr. Cheryl Burdette: Measuring Oxidative Stress and How to Lower It

The Quantified Body

The paradox: We spend a lot of money and time on increasing our antioxidant intake through foods and supplements. Yet most of us never know if this effort is making any impact on our health. Should we be checking our oxidative stress levels as often as we check our cholesterol? Not a day goes past that we don't hear about oxidative stress in the news and interwebs, and how it is shortening our lifespan or causing diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Unless you’ve been living under a HUGE rock, you also know that antioxidants protect us from oxidative ...