Antioxidant Complex - Free radicals are nasty buggers in terms of human health. In terms of chemistry, they are nothing more than molecules looking for some companionship. What that means inside the human body is that they are looking to combine with certain body tissues that you certainly want to prevent – it’s a bad partnership. By interacting with your body tissues, they end up destroying or damaging those same tissues. Where do they come from? Every time you breathe, or just sit there metabolizing, you are dealing with them. Being exposed to air pollution, sunlight, x-rays, or smoking causes external free radicals to enter the body. The human body evolved with free radicals, so your body knows how to deal with them. However, you can only battle them if you have the sufficient ammunition, and that’s where the antioxidant supplement comes in. Our antioxidant complex contains vitamins that your body will use to neutralize these chemicals, as well as powerful herbal extracts so you are defending yourself with multiple sources. It is important to combine these since some antioxidants will ‘lend’ parts of themselves to replenish other antioxidants – they are like a team working in tandem.
What happens if you only take one type of antioxidant? You get greatly reduced activity from it within the body. As mentioned above, antioxidants work best when taken with each other, and from many sources. Many fruits and vegetables contain these ‘teams’ of antioxidants, and a good antioxidant supplement should as well. So, as these antioxidants are doing battle against the free radicals, they are able to team up and replenish each other, thereby producing a positive feedback loop within the body. Eventually they will get used up, which is why we need to eat them every day.
Science is discovering nutrients being used in the body every day. There are thousands of chemicals in natural foods, and it takes time to identify them and note their function. What is presented in our herbal antioxidant tabs is the best known list of herbal antioxidants which work synergistically with the more well-known vitamins, also included. Some of these herbal extracts – such as Grape Seed, for example – are particularly potent, so do not underestimate their importance in an antioxidant supplement. So, you can be assured that we have included everything science has given us to date in our antioxidant supplement, from sources that include vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other types of flavonoids.
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