• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Go right to the actual scientific article. It doesn’t seem to include this sort of nonsense. It’s a seemingly well put together but herculean effort to try to study this. They do a nice job controlling for known covariables, but it’s very possible they are missing a linked factor. Using this as a basis for a randomized study with these chemicals would be truly interesting.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Yep.

        Entirely because people try to sensationalize it to make it interesting and exciting, and usually jump on it before theres even been other studies to confirm the results or not.

        Which results in a lot of fatigue… Like how people are, to this day, still confused about if eggs or good or bad because the flood of studies in the 90s, each contradicting eachother about eggs being good, eggs being bad, this part of the egg being good, that part being bad, etc etc.

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      2 months ago

      I beg to differ. From the manuscript:

      Despite food additive ascorbic acid and alpha-tocopherol having identical structures to their naturally occurring forms,[3]() their effects can differ based on factors such as food matrix (composition, structure, etc.), dosage, and interactions with other food compounds affecting bioavailability.[52]

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        This is probably where the science writer derived this from. This is so much clearer though that it’s not the origin of the compound that matters so much as the environment it is in.