Antioxidants, long touted in cosmeceuticals for their anti-aging miracles, and in food industries for their health benefits, are now a new dynamic component in IVF media. While it has been demonstrated that the use of individual antioxidants has beneficial effects, their real power is manifest when used in combination, as is seen in vivo as part of an elegant antioxidant system. This blog post outlines the rationale for including antioxidants in IVF media and how the three antioxidants in the Gx Media system were selected and tested in the mouse model.