Antioxidant Supplements – Are The Right For You?
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Antioxidant Supplements – Are The Right For You?
Many people who care about health spend a lot of time learning about antioxidants. They will also often buy antioxidant supplements too and they do it for one simple reason. They want the benefits that antioxidants can provide for their health. But the little wrinkle in that plan is that taking antioxidant supplements might not do everything they want.
Why Antioxidants are Important to Your Health
One most coins there are two sides – heads and tails. On the health coin, these opposing sides are made up of antioxidants on one side and on the other – free radicals. Think of them as electrons gone bad. To understand the role of one – lets look first at what free radicals do.
Every organ in your body is made of a countless number of living cells. Three the stresses of living, the atoms in those cells can lose an electron which damages the structure of the molecule and now you have a free radical. Free radicals will steal an electron from another nearby cell to fix themselves, but now another atom is looking for its missing electron.
As you can imagine, a chain reaction occurs, that left unchecked will damage the structure of the cell. When this happens, the tissue of an organ gets cluttered up with a lot of damaged cells which left long enough will impair the function of the organ.
An antioxidant is a molecule that is capable of donating an electron to stabilize a free radical. An antioxidant molecule however will not become a free radical itself because it will either remain stable with the missing electron or it will be too weak to steal an electron from another atom. The chain reaction is stopped. What’s important to understand – to get a feel for the scale- is that according to a well known scientist who studies antioxidants – his name is Bruce Ames – a cell in your body will be hit up to 10,000 times in a single day by free radicals. And there are trillions of cells in our bodies.
Does free radical damage really pose a serious risk to your health? You bet it does! Here’s a partial list of some of the conditions that are brought about at least in part, by the damage caused by free radicals – Alzheimer’s, some types of Canada, rheumatoid arthritis and other acute and chronic inflammatory conditions, Parkinson’s and type II dia
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If you want to reduce your own production of free radicals and get more antioxidants into your body to help clean up the mess they cause, deciding to buy antioxidants supplements isnt enough. You need to:
1- Stop causing the damage. Free radicals are created through many processes. Many of which we can control. Air pollution, primary and second hand tobacco smoke, substance abuse, Junk Food, unnecessary chemicals and excessive exercise (yes even good things than go bad) all create free radicals and all are within our ability to control.
2- Fresh foods and more fruits and VEGETABLES. You cant tell me you didnt expect to see vegetables on the list? The list of foods that we can take to boost our levels of specific antioxidants is almost too long to mention. But think deep green and think blue and start your research from there.
3- Research the best quality antioxidant supplements you can find and add them to your health plan. Vitamins C and E are almost universally available with Cordyceps and Resveratrol almost as easy to find.
4. Incorporate Glutathione precursors into your plan. There isn’t an effective oral Glutathione supplement right now, but you can take a Glutathione precursor to support you own ability to manufacture glutathione. Simply Google “Glutathione precursor” to see what’s available. Other natural supplements like Milk Thistle and Selenium are beneficial.
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Jennifer Anna Ruth consults with Whole Earth Health and is one of the company’s champions for MAX GXL an L-Glutathione precursor. Increased Glutathione has produced outstanding results for people looking for antioxidants supplements to help provide relief from pain and inflammation.
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