Vitamin C and E buffer cardio effect on fat rolls?

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http://www.pnas.org/content/106/21/8665.abstract

Physical exercise generates free radicals in the muscles. Muscle cells defend themselves against this by making more endogenous antioxidants such as superoxide-dismutase-1 and 2. Vitamin supplements cancel out this effect too.

That physical exercise induces muscles to make antioxidants appears to be because exercising muscles generate free radicals, the Germans conclude. Supplements containing high quantities of antioxidant vitamins may inhibit the production of free radicals, and thus undermine the positive effect of training on the body’s own production of antioxidants.

Hmm.

This makes us wonder: do antioxidant vitamins also reduce the muscle building effect of power training? It’s not such a strange question. Sports scientists from Liverpool John Moores University reported back in 2006 that one gram of vitamin C delays muscle recovery after intensive training.



Are multivitamins not such a good idea??