Micronutrients & recovery
Dietary interventions that minimize free radical reactions, specifically through caloric restriction and antioxidant supplementation, extend healthy life span and reduce age-related degenerative diseases.
To potentially extend your healthy life span, focus on maintaining a healthy body weight and consuming a diet rich in antioxidants (like Vitamin E, Vitamin C, and Selenium) while minimizing components that promote free radical damage, such as excessive polyunsaturated fats and copper. This approach aims to reduce the cumulative cellular damage associated with aging.
It is not unreasonable to expect on the basis of present data that the healthy life span can be increased by 5-10 or more years by keeping body weight down, at a level compatible with a sense of well-being, while ingesting diets adequate in essential nutrients but designed to minimize random free radical reactions in the body.
Why this rating
Based on animal models (mice, rats, flies) and theoretical extrapolation to humans; lacks direct long-term human RCTs.
Source
The aging process.
Denham Harman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1981
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