is getting rid of your reactive oxygen species safe?
Answer:
Reactive oxygen species have been implicated in molecular DNA damage that contributes to aging, and is the basis for the success of anti-oxidant containing products in recent years. However, it is also used by white blood cells and macrophages in the body to fight bacteria and parasites, which is obviously a good thing to have, so it really wouldn't be a good idea to totally eliminate them from the body.
That's not possible, so it's not really an issue of safety. If you could theoretically do that, then it might be beneficial because reactive oxygen species contribute significantly to the aging process (at least according to some theories). I don't think anyone can really know if it would be safe or not though.
Reactive oxygen species or free radicals have to be ridden off our body. We do it every day naturally since we have antioxidants too in our body. This is a present topic in research that is gaining a lot of importance.
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