Uh....sure.
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Technically, free electrons entering your body would give you a negative charge, which would reduce oxidation because oxygen ions are negatively charged. The same effect is used to reduce rust on ship hulls.
Unfortunately you need oxidation to breathe - that's how hemoglobin works - so if you actually had enough electric charge to serve as an antioxidant you would suffocate. Also maybe the electric repulsion would be strong enough to dismember you, I haven't done the math.
from time to time, I stumble onto this fact, and every time it feels weird that we're rusting our blood so we can live
Sure but you're not getting electrons or the resulting "powerful" antioxidation from a "grounding effect". Unless you were previously charged with a positive electrostatic potential, I guess.