Fast Facts Free radicals are bad. They cause cell mutations, damage immune function, cause wrinkles and aging and are a contributing cause behind many diseases including cancer, heart disease, arthritis, alzheimers, parkinson’s, and others. Free radical damage is a factor behind almost every known disease according to some researchers
Free radicals are caused by the body’s own natural processes. Free radical excesses are further created from the addition of things like toxins or radiation or poor digestive function. Disease tends to create free radicals. We are constantly creating free radicals at an astonishing speed.
Relating to the immune system specifically, free radicals damage immune cells and wipe out cytokine (communication) pathways.
The antidote to free radicals is the antioxidant. We make some antioxidants and some are traditionally supplied in the diet (fruits, vegetables). Environmental influences have increased the need well beyond what our bodies are capable of producing, and even beyond diet – as in can you actually eat 7 pounds of spinach to get 1mg. of alpha lipoic acid?
Antioxidants work best together not singularly.
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Free radicals are bad. They cause cell mutations, damage immune function, cause wrinkles and aging and are a contributing cause behind many diseases including cancer, heart disease, arthritis, alzheimers, parkinson’s, and others. Free radical damage is a factor behind almost every known disease according to some researchers
Free radicals are caused by the body’s own natural processes. Free radical excesses are further created from the addition of things like toxins or radiation or poor digestive function. Disease tends to create free radicals. We are constantly creating free radicals at an astonishing speed.
Relating to the immune system specifically, free radicals damage immune cells and wipe out cytokine (communication) pathways.
The antidote to free radicals is the antioxidant. We make some antioxidants and some are traditionally supplied in the diet (fruits, vegetables). Environmental influences have increased the need well beyond what our bodies are capable of producing, and even beyond diet – as in can you actually eat 7 pounds of spinach to get 1mg. of alpha lipoic acid?
Antioxidants work best together not singularly.
Read More....