Who says you have to be overweight to have to use antioxidant supplements? What’s so special about antioxidants is that they help your body stay healthy no matter how heavy or light you are. Why is that?

You’ve probably read a lot about studies on overweight people and how to antioxidant supplements helped them lose weight with little effort and even more weight when coupled with exercise and a proper diet. But how about people with normal weight or even those who are underweight? Where the studies say about them? Is antioxidant any good for the underweight people? Do they not need antioxidants? They do, actually and you can read more below about the reasons.

To begin with, there are different kinds of antioxidants. Some of them help control the oxidation processes in cells, just like control rods help control reactions in nuclear plants. They absorb or neutralize any excess free radicals. This allows a higher efficiency of burning. Other antioxidants don’t have to be so specific. They move about and try to fix anything they find wrong. What all of the antioxidants do is control the amount of free radicals that can damage your cells.

What do slim people need antioxidants for?

There are slim people who stay that way because of their great lifestyle, working out regularly and eating a properly balanced diet. They make sure they have a bit of everything in their lives, don’t consume anything excessively. But who can afford to live like that?

There are also people who are slim because of their fast metabolism. This means that they do eat a lot and it’s irrelevant whether they work out; their bodies burn food so fast that they simply can’t get fat

It’s not your fault if you have such a fast metabolism (image source: http://gainweighthow.com/how-to-gain-weight-if-you-are-an-underweight-person/)

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How do antioxidants help slim people?

You already know that when you burn anything there are partly burned residues. You can see this happening when you burn a piece of paper, for example. You see fragments of black paper flying around.

This happens in cells too and, because oxygen is so reactive, there are many bits and pieces of molecules that roam free after the burning process. They are atoms, ions or molecules that have unpaired valence electrons or open electron shells.

Even more, when you burn anything in high amounts, the number of these free radicals rises too. This is the case with high metabolism people. So if you’re really slim even though you eat a lot and don’t work out, it’s your case too. You should make sure the levels of antioxidants in your body are high enough to protect you from the unwanted effects of free radicals! 

Look at all of those roaming free radicals (image source: http://aain.org/cseblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/free-radicals1.jpg)

Since you have a lot of free radicals to deal with in the first place, you need higher amounts of antioxidants to keep the under control. A natural solution for you would be to eat high amounts of antioxidant rich foods, such as fruits and vegetables and animal organs. But that also means there is more food to burn, more free radicals, a higher need of antioxidants and so on. Just because you eat more, it doesn’t mean that your metabolism will slow down. More food actually puts more stress on your metabolism and makes it run erroneously.

An easier way to solve this problem is using antioxidant supplements that provide you with all the antioxidants your body needs, without adding the strain of extra food. Of course you should first talk to a nutritionist to see what they recommend for your particular case.