Antioxidants

There's a war going on inside of your body...one that turns your normal, healthy cells into unstable, destructive scavengers. But scientists are finding in study after study that there's a new weapon against these scavengers. What's the enemy? Free Radicals. What's your best weapon? Antioxidants.

Antioxidants are Nutrients, Plant Extracts, and Minerals that reduce the damages of environmental pollutants in food, water, and air. Antioxidants are used to fight cancer, heart disease, arthritis,and diseases associated with aging.

They are the bodies natural self-defense against the damage caused by Free Radicals. Antioxidants are a general label for the vitamins, enzymes and minerals that help prevent Free Radical damage and/or reverse damage done by Free Radicals. Basically an Antioxidant is able to provide a free electron to a Free Radical and does not become a Free Radical itself after losing that electron. When it gives this extra electron to a Free Radical, the Free Radical is inactivated since it has now regained its normal set of 4 paired electrons.

How do Antioxidants Work?

When antioxidants step in, they have the following three ways of counteraction free radicals:

   1. They can prevent damage by trapping free radicals, before they have a chance to wreck healthy cells.
   2. They provide the missing electron to the free radical, which stops the free radical from attacking and damaging a healthy cell.
   3. They are able to repair molecules that have already been damaged by free radicals, preventing the chain reaction of destruction to healthy cells.

MaxGXL versus MonaVie

By Max International
Published 09/10/2008
MaxGXL - Glutathione , Antioxidants
Rating: Unrated

There are many antioxidant supplements on the market today that taste wonderful - but don't pack as powerful a punch as MaxGXL. MaxGXL is a "glutathione accelerator", meaning that it provides your body with the nutrients it needs to create it's own intracellular glutathione. Glutathione is the "Master Antioxidant."

Cancer Strategy #8 - Free Radical Scavengers

By Resource
Published 11/11/2007
Cancer , Antioxidants
Rating: Unrated

There is no doubt that the ordinary free radical scavengers play a key role in fighting cancer, like OPCs that took care of lung cancer. So it is no wonder that a couple of the top cancer fighting supplements are found in this section.

Is Goji Juice Really as Good as it is Being Promoted As?

By Joseph Mercola, DO
Published 06/26/2007
Antioxidants
Rating: Unrated

Goji juice is hyped as the cure-all remedy for 34 different ailments, including arthritis, diabetes and cancer. But the truth is both shocking and infuriating, as they uncover the lack of nutritional value of the goji juice in the lab.

Can Vitamins REALLY Kill You?

By Joseph Mercola, DO
Published 05/27/2007
Antioxidants
Rating: Unrated

Critical examinatiion of a study published this week claiming antioxidants like vitamin E, C, A, selenium and beta-carotene, can decrease your lifespan.

Free Radicals & Antioxidants

By Resource
Published 05/6/2007
Antioxidants
Rating: Unrated

When oxygen reacts with another substance oxidation occurs. In our bodies,this process of oxidation causes a chain reaction as free radicals are formed, leading to thousands of free radical reactions in seconds. This creates damage to healthy cells, causing them to age and if DNA is involved then the likelihood of cancer forming is high. Research suggests that free radical damage causes cancer, cataracts, emphysema, rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and the acceleration of the aging process.