Can supplemental antioxidants interfere with the Budwig protocol?
Dr. Budwig writes in Die elementare Funktion der Atmung in ihrer Beziehung zu autoxydablen Nahrungsstoffen, p. 52 (translated/excerpted by me): “The above-mentioned basic constituents of our food [proteins containing sulfurated amino acids, high omega3 fatty acids, carbohydrates containing natural sugars, vitamin A and B] are usually found in natural unprocessed crops, such as in grains, in well-balanced proportions. [I don’t advise using isolated wheat germ but rather to presoak the entire grain and consume it that way.] Only then do you have the natural composition of the basic food elements and of the vitamins that go with it, as they naturally occur together. Because overdosing on isolated vitamin E has an antioxidant effect, i.e. works against the utilisation of oxygen in the body.
