Listen in as Dr. Mike provides the answers to a wealth of health and wellness questions. Here you'll find the answers to a wealth of health and wellness questions posed by Healthy Talk fans. Listen in because what you know helps ensure healthy choices you can live with. Today on Healthy Talk, you wanted to know:Hi Dr. Mike, we're learning a lot about antioxidants lately. It's clear we need some antioxidants and the body does use oxidant signaling to start anti-inflammatory cascades. Of course, you can take too many antioxidants through food and supplements. But how do you tell where the sweet spot is, where you are cooling off excessive oxidation with some supplementation but not shutting down beneficial reactions?Everything in life is about balance. This is also true of antioxidants, which are nutrients known to slow and prevent oxidative damage on your body and health.In theory, you can overload on antioxidants, shut out the function of natural killer cells, which causes you to become more prone to infection. However, this is where the appropriate balance comes in.You need to be able to have both antioxidants as well as oxidation. As for the "sweet spot," that varies on an individual basis.What role does the FDA play in the overall development of dietary supplements?The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is in charge of protecting your heath by properly labeling and ensuring safety of human and animal drugs, cosmetics, and the U.S. food supply.It's a huge myth that the FDA doesn't regulate the supplement industry. They do, but they don't regulate pre-market launches of a product like they do with drugs. Instead it's all post-market. They do look at product label claim, how it's being marketed and test random products.If you have a health question or concern, Dr. Mike encourages you to write him at askdrmikesmith@radiomd.com or call in, toll-free, to the LIVE radio show (1.844.305.7800) so he can provide you with support and helpful advice.