A test for free radicals? Or a conflict of interest?
I came across this press release this morning — thinly veiled as news, as is often the case — for a “Wellness Index Test”. This test purports to measure isoprostanes, the byproducts of free radicals, in your system. This is ostensibly to check if your antioxidants are doing their job.
What arouses my suspcion is that if — or rather, when — the test indicates high levels of free radicals in your system, the very company that markets the test, and performs the testing,
“has an easy, verifiable solution: MeridiumXN(TM), an antioxidant antidote to metabolic stress.”
I would probably have more confidence in the test if it were somehow independent of the “solution”.
Did I mention you have to mail them your urine? The post office wanted me to remind you to be sure the lid is tight.