You may have heard about oxidative stress on social media. A TikTok search offers dozens of videos that claim to break down the complex chemical process and, in some instances, offer up “treatments” ...

Running extreme distances may strain more than just muscles and joints. New research suggests ultramarathons can alter red blood cells in ways that make them less flexible and more prone to breakdown, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab in Sweden describe in a study published in Science how they have improved the ability of a protein to repair oxidative DNA damage and created a new ...

You may have heard that antioxidants are an important part of your diet – but what are they and what do they do? Generally, antioxidants balance out something called oxidants or free radicals, which ...

Oxidative stress is a direct consequence of an excess in the body of so-called "free radicals" – reactive, unstable molecules that contain oxygen. Free radicals are normal metabolic by-products and ...

Source: Taxiarchos228, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons. Inside the bodies of all animals, including humans, there are opposing forces at work. On one side, there are free radicals, reactive oxygen ...