• ddplf
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    Please correct me if I’m wrong because I might be ridiculously wrong, but isn’t it that the oxygen is the reason we’re wilting with age like plants?

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      Partly yea, unbound oxygen is very excitable and is capable of causing DNA dmg! But everything damages your DNA! Light, heat, viral/bacterial infections, time, stress… Everything!

      But you can limit the very first one with anti-oxidants, which is strictly not capable of doing anything else but binding unbound oxygen! Ripe bananas contain a bunch of them