Antioxidants friends

Known since the late nineteenth, it began to be studied by chemists in the early twentieth century as agents that prevent or delay the oxidation of other molecules. It seems paradoxical, because while the vast majority of complex life requires oxygen for its existence and oxidation reactions are crucial for living organisms, oxygen can also damage them. Although 90 percent of inhaled oxygen is beneficially consumed in the mitochondria, main components of cells, about two per cent is transformed into free radicals, now called "reactive oxygen species”.
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