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Article: The role of free radicals in the aging process.(Anti-Aging & Cosmeceutical Corner)

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ANTI-AGING REGIMENS take many forms, including nutrition, physical fitness, skin care, hormone replacement, vitamins, supplements and herbs. It's all become a lucrative business, with annual sales topping $50 billion, according to the American Medical Association. (1) For the cosmetic chemist, free radicals play a key role in aging. This column will discuss briefly the role of free radicals, what they are, how they are created, what kind of havoc they cause in the body and how resulting damages could be avoided.

Free radicals and associated aging were first proposed in 1956 by Dr. Denham Harman of the University of Nebraska, College of Medicine. Free radicals are ...

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