There is one thing you will quickly learn in your research on Antiox­i­dants.  I don’t care who did the study, most of this is uncharted ter­ri­tory and there is no author­ity that can tell you for cer­tainty what all the dif­fer­ent vit­a­mins and min­er­als do.  The find­ings are con­stantly chang­ing.  For exam­ple even though we know Green Tea con­tains polyphe­nols,  they are now sus­pect­ing that based on “The Asian Para­dox”,  the polyphe­nols in Green Tea do much more then destroy free rad­i­cals.  Nobody knows what how­ever.  Hence the Blog Title, Com­mon Sense Eat­ing & Exer­cise. In this blog, I have made it a point to address only that which is almost  cer­tain and base all find­ings on his­tor­i­cal data and per­sonal experience.

“The Asian Para­dox “refers to the very low inci­dence of both heart dis­ease and can­cer in Asia, even though con­sump­tion of cig­a­rettes is greater than in most other coun­tries,” said Bauer Sum­pio, M.D., pro­fes­sor and Chief of Vas­cu­lar Surgery in the Depart­ment of Surgery at Yale Uni­ver­sity, New Haven, Con­necti­cut, USA .  I think that this accom­pa­nied by the fact that most Asians prac­tice deep breath­ing is more then a lit­tle inter­est­ing.   Hmmmm.…. Now we are get­ting somewhere.

Enter “The French Para­dox” which refers to the rel­a­tively (com­pared to the US) low inci­dence of coro­nary heart dis­ease in France, despite hav­ing a diet rel­a­tively rich in sat­u­rated fats. The term French Para­dox was coined by Dr. Serge Renaud, a sci­en­tist from Bor­deaux Uni­ver­sity in France in 1992.  Now it was thought that this was based on Resver­a­trol found in red wine.  The prob­lem with this is there wasn’t enough in a glass of wine to account for the ben­e­fits, so the med­ical indus­try has come up with a con­cen­trated sup­ple­ment.  Amaz­ing Sup­ple­ment, but I don’t think this is what we are look­ing for.

Enter “The Amer­i­can Phrase”,  “An Apple a day keeps the doc­tor away” and by golly we have some­thing.   What exactly is it that we have your prob­a­bly ask­ing.  You see while the sci­en­tists were research­ing how red wine worked given it had such lit­tle Resver­a­trol they dis­coverd that red wine was rich in a polyphe­nol called Proan­tho­cyani­din. Your prob­a­bly say­ing “What is so spe­cial about that?”  Well not only is Proan­tho­cyani­din found in Red Wine, it is also found in Green Tea, and guess what else?

One of the rich­est sources of Proan­tho­cyani­din is Apples.  For­get the sugar, just eat or juice two apples daily for incred­i­ble health

Proan­tho­cyani­din is 20 times more potent then Vit­a­min C and 50 times more potent then Vit­a­min E.  Dis­cov­ered in 1936 by Jacques Masque­lier,  this super Antiox­i­dant attaches itself inside and out­side the cel­lu­lar wall just wait­ing on Free Radicals. He attempted to have it clas­si­fied as Vit­a­min P but it just didn’t catch on.  It has 95% bioavail­abil­ity and goes to work imme­di­ately.  Don’t think you can buy pas­tur­ized Apple Juice off the shelf and get the same result. 

The most pow­er­ful polyphe­nols I have located are in a prod­uct called Seanol.  This pow­er­ful Antiox­i­dant is made of unique sea­weed called Eck­lo­nia cava found off the coast of Korea and Japan.  While most antiox­i­dants are water sol­u­ble.  Seanol is fat sol­u­ble and pro­vides up to 12 hours of pro­tec­tion.  In addi­tion while water sol­u­ble Antiox­i­dants exist out­side of the body’s cel­lu­lar struc­ture, Seanol goes inside each cell stand­ing there to defend against any Free Rad­i­cal attack that gets past your defenses. Seanol is the sin­gle most pow­er­ful sup­ple­ment I have ever expe­ri­enced and deserves a post of its own.

To deter­mine the power of Chain Break­ing Antiox­i­dants, refer to the Orac Chart.  The rea­son you will find this chart impor­tant is because you need to con­sume at least 5,000 Orac units per day which is the lat­est rec­om­men­da­tion by nutri­tion­ists. Orac is an abbre­vi­a­tion for Oxygen Radi­cal Absorbance Capac­ity.  Rather then rein­vent the wheel I have attached a link to the lat­est USDA report on ORAC food val­ues.  You will find that the Orac value of foods varies depend­ing on what web­site you visit, so it is best to stick with the USDA report for a standard. There are to me some ques­tion­able val­ues as it relates to processed cere­als and milk choco­late candy, so use your good judge­ment when view­ing this gov­ern­ment report.  As always it is good to remind your­self that all food val­ues vary by region and it is best to be way over the 5,000 mark then barely meet­ing it.  By the way, two tablets of Seanol con­tain 8,368 ORAC.

Remem­ber AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY

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