Antioxidants are good for your health in many ways. But too much of them can lead to disease, new research shows.
People with an inherited mutation of a gene called alpha-B crystallin can suffer progressive heart failure, but nobody has known why. Now it appears that the mutation leads to an excess of natural antioxidants that damage heart cells.
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