Hoge dosering vitamine E studie levens verlenging

Studying how much longer and "better" mice will live on high doses of vitamin E involves much time and work – two years of feeding, testing and studying. But based on earlier results, a joint team from the University of Cadiz, Spain, and the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, figured the payoff would be worth the effort.

Results seen supporting 'free radical' theory of aging

Alberto Boveris, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, said the results of these extended experiments "are in line with the free radical theory of aging put forward by Gerschman and Harman in the 1950s. Our results show a significant negative correlation between the mitochondrial content of the oxidation products of free-radical mediated reactions and mitochondrial enzymatic activities.