There are a lot of such diets and creams available these days as claim to defeat ageing with their antioxidant constituents.

But according to a new study, antioxidant may do nothing good against ageing.

In their experiments on Nematode worms, the scientists gave higher antioxidant powers to avoid tissue damaging to them, but they found that despite doing that they couldn’t live longer.

Researchers from University College London say, there is not any clear evidence that show antioxidant can slow ageing.

Antioxidants have been hyped a lot in the health and beauty industries and people have been trusting in them because of this hype, but antioxidants age-fighting properties have been based on a theory that was presented in 1956.

It that theory it was suggested that reactive oxygen forms known as free radicals or superoxides become the cause of ageing in the body as they create oxidative stress.

It is supposed that antioxidants work to clean these radicals and minimize their damage.

Dr David Gems and team genetically engineered nematodes to make their bodies able to cleaning additional free radicals and they also examined some other normal nematodes.

The researchers found that there was not any difference in the lifespan of normal and genetically engineered nematodes and genetically engineered worms lived as long as the normal ones.