Re: Antioxidant hype, was Re: [DIYbio] Need a paper please

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Matt Harbowy <hbergeronx@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been a coauthor on papers produced by Gary Stoner's lab, back when all
> the money was in tea, rather than berries. While everything said in these
> papers has some minuscule amount of merit, you have to take it all with a
> bit of skepticism.
>
> First off, berry polyphenols (and tea, etc) are astringent because they bind
> proteins very strongly. Many will precipitate them. So if such compounds
> even make it out of your mouth, where saliva-PRPs (proline rich proteins)
> will bind and make unavailable, they are subject to the multitude of
> proteins that can intervene along the way and make them unavailable to
> plasma.

Just ate some raspberries, didn't chew completely, chewing increases
the risks of seeds getting stuck in my teeth anyway!

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