Antioxidants are more important than ever before.  If you have noticed, this is not true in every single case.  But in many cases it seems like even with parents who still look young now without going through surgery, using facial creams, or anything else, we are actually aging at a faster rate than ever before.  For example, my mom, being the wonderful lady she is, likes to actually harass my sisters and I about the lines on our necks.  We’ve had them since some time in our 20’s, and she claims she didn’t develop any until she was at least 40.  I don’t actually know if that’s true, because you can’t really tell the difference.  But at the same point in time, we find that we are aging faster in other ways, because I would say we have greater pollution, greater sun exposure, and other problems now than ever before.  There were some in her era that were serious sunbathers and are now paying the price.  But now, when we do the same thing, we are exposed to greater sun damage in the same amount of time.  Antioxidants are said to fight against free radicals, sun damage, pollution, etc.  So my logic is as follows: if you use antioxidants to kill off the bacteria, you can to some degree get back to the state your parents would have achieved with no product if you are using the right antioxidants.  And if you want to do better, then get products with really good peptides among other things to reverse and maintain instead of just using natural prevention.