The test, described in tomorrow's issue of the journal Circulation, might be used to devise better antioxidant vitamin
therapies against free radicals and to explore the mechanism of these compounds in cancer and other diseases.
According to Mark Sircus, in Transdermal Magnesium
Therapy, a deficiency of magnesium increases
free radical generation in the body and «causes glutathione loss, which is not affordable because glutathione helps to defend the body
against damage from cigarette smoking, exposure to radiation, cancer chemotherapy, and toxins such as alcohol and just about everything else.»