I hear that wine and chocolate are antioxidants, so I like to make sure I get plenty of those into my system as often as possible. :D

Wine, Chocolate, and COFFEE!! It's the triple crown of happiness.

Mine (in addition to chocolate, wine and coffee!) is a glutathione accelerator called MaxGXL (I see that there is an ad for this on this web site!). I will vouch for the product as I have definitely seen results for myself, but more importantly for my friends and family who are in a more senior age group. Check out the info for yourself, and let me know if you have any questions!

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I'm def. all about hitting up some good chocolate milk afterwards.

Keeps the kid in me still by getting all excited for something I didn't really get to have as a kid if that makes any sense.

I know its not as exciting as taking a supplement, but the way to get best antioxidant punch is probably simply to eat lots of a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and other plant-derived foods (beer, chocolate, and wine fall into this category). Studies on the health- and performance-benefits of individual antioxidants have yielded mixed results (as in the above cnn link), but research consistently shows the benefits of consumption of plants, especially the colorful ones.

My wife swears by dark chocolate covered plums - I prefer Extra Stout and if I really feel like a need a dose of antioxidants, I go with Imperial Stout. Actually I go with Imperial stout because the alcahol content is higher.

I tend to drink; acai, pomegranate, and blueberry juices daily, by far my favorites for antioxidants (other than the previously stated; beer, wine, chocolate). :p

I'm of the natural camp too. If antioxidants from fruits, nuts, berries, etc. just passed through our system with no effect, then our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors must've been in a world of hurt without powders, pills, and supplements to use!

We pick a ton of berries in the summer season and freeze them. Blueberry/blackberry/raspberry/strawberry smoothies are my antioxidants of choice (with fresh raw high-in-Omega-3 eggs from the free-range chickens in my back yard, and raw milk from a friend's goat, no less ;-) Of course, there's also chocolate, pinot noir, and yerba mate as my other antioxidants of choice.

I'll agree with Ironmom except for the part about the goats milk (hunter / gatherers didn't drink animal milk). I spent an entire summer in Idaho being force-fed raw milk and contemplated suicide every night after dinner it was so bad.

I'm all for supplements when what I'm trying to get in my body isn't readily available. Anti-oxidants are so plentiful it's pretty ridiculous to have to take 'em in pill form (latest study published actually indicated that anti-oxidant supplement-eaters tend to be less healthy than their non-supplement eating counterparts if I recall correctly).

In any case, a 1/4 melon, a cup of frozen mixed berries, a banana and whatever other frozen fruit (mango, pineapple) you can find in the freezer section once a day should get you all the anti-oxidants you need. If that's too much effort--Goji berries. They taste like crap, but you can swallow 'em whole like centrums.

I have heard of the X2O product - a friend of mine at work uses it. He is a serious kick-boxer and weight lifter, and is very pro-supplements. I am looking into that product myself.

I did get him on MaxGXL, and he says it definitely improved his recovery, just as it did for me.

Thanks!

Dave

Absolutely!

You can get it here:
www.maxgxl.com/dmaifrini

Since I have had much interest in the product from others, I decided to take advantage of the business side and became an associate. Hey - have to make some extra cash to support the purchase of a new tri-bike, etc, etc :)

Let me know if you have any questions!

Dave

I get my antioxidants via fuel; coffee, lots of berries and red, yellow and orange bell peppers

...and of course beer and chocolate on occasion ;-)

Hey, you're mocking the miracle drinks! I think I've tried all of them (I'm in network marketing so I get free bottles all the time, currently trying "Ionix Supreme." I've also tried Noni, Xango, Matol, Ezfuze, Mona Vie, Goyin and others that I'm forgetting now.

I think some of them are crap, some of them are probably very good, but who's going to spend $30 a week, per person in their family, to drink the stuff?

So I go back to- eat a good diet with lots of fruits and vegetables and take some reasonably priced supplements to round things out.

Blueberries

A freaking super-food, eat a lot and eat often!

Blueberries, beer, tea, wine, dark chocolate, peppers.
Some great athletes have done wonderful things over the years just by eating at the right time and the right kinds of things...I've done the whole spectrum of supplements over the years and gave up that money pit and just went to good food at the right times, in the right amounts (portion control) ...I train well, recover well and keep my money local.