Free Radical Effects

This chapter deals with a number of seemingly unconnected conditions. But there is a common theme. All the disorders in which free radicals have been found to play an important part. One of these conditions  skin ageing  is of special interest, as if was one of the first in which it was shown possible to reverse, at least to a degree, free radical damage. This chapter also covers some little-known facts about the scavenging cells of the body  the phagocytes and a brief glimpse at the intriguing theory that red wine may be good for you.