Question for those who understand science

:ohmy: HEEELLLLP!

I was reading this article signposted of the PDSA site

ash.confex.com/ash/2012/webprogram/Paper48291.html

If I am understanding it (big IF), it seems to suggest that kids with chronic ITP are less good at dealing with oxidative stress than the population generally. This would seem to me to have implications for those kids more widely than just their ITP. If this is true, it would seem to indicate that I (and other parents) be trying particularly to lower oxidants in our ITP kids lives?

And also I was wondering, whether there is similar research in adults and if so, did it show the same thing?

Any ideas very welcome!

Thanks, Ali

Reducing oxidative stress is good for everyone but how to do it has not yet been worked out. From what I have read there is lots of evidence that simply ingesting anti-oxidant rich foods, as people tell us we should, does little if anything at all. This paper, which is mostly incomprehensible to me, seems to be saying that for now the only thing that helps is caloric restriction. This does seem to go along with the view recently expounded and demonstrated by Michael Mosley on television that it is a good idea to fast or almost fast a couple of days a week.

www.hindawi.com/journals/oximed/2011/194586/

Thanks Ann

I'm sure I must have read other things suggesting that ITP doesn't stand alone, so maybe this is jut the first one I understood. I find it really worrying that there is something 'different' about Dougie that could affect him in the future - not just ITP because rightly or wrongly I don't find that very worrying!

Now to find a way of getting a 14 year old boy to fast a couple of days a week ........... he's going through one of those stages which means that he eats all day every day at the moment!!!!