Micronutrients & recovery
Plant-derived bioactives, particularly flavonoids and polyphenols, promote healthy aging and longevity by acting as antioxidants that scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS), chelate pro-oxidant metal ions, and inhibit pro-oxidant enzymes, thereby mitigating oxidative stress associated with aging and age-related diseases.
Incorporate a wide variety of plant-based foods rich in polyphenols (e.g., berries, tea, dark chocolate, spices) into your daily diet to support your body's natural defense against oxidative stress and aging. Focus on whole foods rather than isolated high-dose supplements, as the complex matrix of compounds in plants offers balanced antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits.
Plants possess miraculous antioxidant effects because of their high oxygen exposure physiology... Plants synthesize several enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants to avoid free radicals’ toxic effects... acting as antioxidants [1,8,9].
Why this rating
The paper is a review of in vitro and mechanistic studies; direct clinical evidence for longevity in humans is limited or inferred.
Source
Plant-Derived Bioactives and Oxidative Stress-Related Disorders: A Key Trend towards Healthy Aging and Longevity Promotion
Bahare Salehi et al. · Applied Sciences · 2020
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