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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Oxidative Stress is not part of a healthy life. It's literally stress on your cells ability to respirate and detoxify. It causes DNA fragmentation in low amounts and apoptosis/cell death among other serious biological complications like cancer with high enough severity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oxidative stress happens every time you exercise. People need exercise to have better health. Oxidative stress is actually a necessary part of a healthy life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It’s more complicated than good or bad. High levels/sustained stress are definitely bad, but there’s some research to suggest that short-term oxidative stress is an important trigger for various responses in cells.