Re: This negative aricle about Antioxidants appeared in the Lancet

From: peterb (peterb_at_mytrashmail.com)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: 24 Oct 2004 07:17:10 -0700

Peter H Proctor <drp@drproctor.com> wrote in message news:<o4pfn0loq95veparijl7ls8jsskfjt4uea@4ax.com>...
> On 20 Oct 2004 06:10:20 GMT, Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@omsdev.com> wrote:
>
> >Peter H Proctor
>
> >> Paracelcus: " Everything is poison and there is poison in everything.
> >> It is the dose that makes a thing a poison."
> >
> >Someone once said "the difference between a nutrient, a drug, and a poison
> >is merely the dosage."
>
> "The dose makes the poison" is a fundamental concept underlyng toxicology...

But ridiculously outdated. Paracelcus lived prior to the introduction
of man-made chemicals, which are treated as poisons biochemically
regardless of the dose; this is a fundamental difference between them
and micronutrients to which humans have evolved a beneficial metabolic
response; nor do they provide a health-positive benefit with long-term
exposure (and a comparatively small overall benefit in crisis medical
care with *short*-term exposure.) Everything is poison in *some*
measure; but some things are poison in *ANY* measure.

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