Hunt­ing Down Free Radicals

Build A Per­sonal Stand­ing Army of Antioxidants

How do Antiox­i­dants pro­tect us?

Oxy­gen the largest com­po­nent of the body by weight does one of two things.  It either oxy­genates your cells to pro­vide the energy needed for the body to run or it oxi­dizes your cells and kills them.  To pre­vent this from hap­pen­ing, the body requires Antioxidants.

Oxi­da­tion is all around us in dif­fer­ent forms. Rust on untreated steel, food spoilage (Brow­ing Food), and aging struc­tures to name but a few exam­ples that you see every­day.  All aging and obe­sity is directly linked to oxi­da­tion in the body caused by free rad­i­cals.  Free rad­i­cal dam­age is cumu­la­tive which is why it is impor­tant to neu­tral­ize them as quickly as pos­si­ble.  This is why you lit­er­ally need a stand­ing army to fight these rad­i­cals.  An army of Antiox­i­dants can lit­er­ally neu­tral­ize free rad­i­cals as they form.

When we break down the word Antiox­i­dant, we get;

Anti = Against      Oxi­dant = Oxidization

Antiox­i­dants there­fore pro­tect your body from bio­log­i­cal rust.  The con­scious and struc­tured use of Antiox­i­dants will trans­form your body into a well-kept struc­ture that doesn’t get sick eas­ily, ages slowly and can defend itself from Free Rad­i­cal attacks and dam­age.  There are three types of Antioxidants:

1. Pre­ven­ta­tive — Com­pounds which act­ing with oth­ers build up the cel­lu­lar struc­ture and pre­vent oxi­da­tion from occurring
2. Retar­dant — Com­pounds which act to slow the chain reac­tion of Free Radicals
3. Chain Break­ing — Com­pounds which com­pletely neu­tral­ize Free Rad­i­cals and become a non reac­tive com­pound or atom

Pre­ven­ta­tive Antioxidants

Like armor on a tank, chrome on metal or paint and primer on a house, Pre­ven­ta­tive Antiox­i­dants pro­tect the body’s cells from tak­ing rapid dam­age when hit by a Free Rad­i­cal attack. This means a full spec­trum of Vit­a­mins, Amino Acids and Min­er­als need to be con­sumed daily.  There are four min­er­als that require everyone’s imme­di­ate atten­tion.  They are Cal­cium, Sul­phur, Mag­ne­sium and Potas­sium.  The rea­son being is that a large por­tion of the pop­u­la­tion is def­f­i­cent in these minerals. 

• Cal­cium is not a trace min­eral.  It is the most abun­dant min­eral in the body and crit­i­cal to nerve func­tion.  The body must have it and if it doesn’t have enough, it will leach this min­eral from your bone structure.
• Organic Sul­phur or MSM is crit­i­cal to smooth skin, cel­lu­lar struc­ture health, over­all alert­ness and well being, lessens the impact of aller­gies, pro­vides strong hair and nails, acts as an anti-inflammatory, allows rapid detox­i­fi­ca­tion, reg­u­lates the body’s PH bal­ance and is an impor­tant com­po­nent of insulin pro­duced by the pancreas.
• Mag­ne­sium is what I refer to as  “The But­ler” of the body. It con­trols over 300 meta­bolic processes in the body not the least of which are the pro­duc­tion of energy, the for­ma­tion of bone and pro­tein, main­tain nor­mal heart­beat, reg­u­late blood sugar lev­els, main­tain nor­mal blood pres­sure.  99% of Mag­ne­sium is found in soft tis­sue and bone, so it is not like your Doc­tor is going to notice from a blood lab if you are short on it.
• Potas­sium serves many func­tions with the key func­tion we know of being its inter­ac­tion with sodium to reg­u­late the bodys water bal­ance.  A diet high in salt and low in Potas­sium can cause high blood pres­sure. Whereas sodium is added to processed foods, Potas­sium is not and needs to be added pri­mar­ily through fresh food sources.  If your juic­ing car­rots then you are get­ting your Potas­sium.  Oth­er­wise try the banana, cup of orange juice, cup of  lac­tose free milk or a nec­tarine.  There are many sources but these are fast and easy.

Now when you really start to focus on build­ing your Army of Antiox­i­dants, it  is going to take time for your body to use the vit­a­mins, polyphe­nols and min­er­als you are flood­ing  your sys­tem with. It will show in your skin fairly quickly (one to two weeks). Nev­er­the­less, to really begin to feel ben­e­fits, gen­er­ally takes a good eight weeks or longer depend­ing on your body.

Retar­dant Antioxidants

This is a force of troops always fight­ing to slow down the enemy (Free Rad­i­cals) in a strate­gic retreat. They are always tak­ing dam­age and there­fore need con­stant replen­ish­ment. They are vit­a­mins A, C & E along with your B com­plex.  This is the main list and not the whole list.

Chain Break­ing Antioxidants

This is your elite attack force and needs your con­stant atten­tion.  They are polyphe­nols, which come from veg­eta­bles and fruits.  To under­stand polyphe­nols, con­sider a fish­ing net. The mol­e­c­u­lar struc­ture of polyphe­nols is inter­con­nected rings. The more rings a polyphe­nols has, the larger the fish­ing net.   For exam­ple, Red Grapes have two rings and Green Tea has four rings.  This net moves through your sys­tem sweep­ing up and destroy­ing all Free Rad­i­cals it encoun­ters.  I focus on polyphe­nols because we know they  have chain break­ing properties. 

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