These provide the necessary building blocks and co-factors for your body to synthesize its own "master antioxidant."
[PubMed: 29576255] (38 year old woman took an intentional overdose of ALA [6000 mg] and rapidly developed delirium and metabolic acidosis, thrombocytopenia and rhabdomyolysis [pH 7.26, CPK 174 rising to 5,229 U/L 24 hours later, creatinine 0.84 to 0.93 mg/dL, ALT 17 to 33 U/L, AST 20 to 119 U/L, platelets 189,000 to 64,000/L, INR 1.24 to 1.4], was treated with supportive care and recovered within 3 days)
You want to raise GH levels noticeably without running into unwanted effects
they used a single layer of approx 10.5% (w/v) iodixanol ( = 1.06 g/ml) to purify mouse motoneurons, which remained on top of the density barrier after centrifugation