Understanding Free Radicals and Antioxidants

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Free radicals are highly reactive molecules
that are unstable because of unpaired electrons in their outer shell.

Because they are unstable, they scavenge around until they find electrons they can attach to for stability.When they bring themselves into neutralization by taking an electron from healthy tissue,they cause oxidation of that cell and damage to it.

This is similar to a piece of metal when it oxidizes resulting in rust.

The free radicals attach themselves to healthy cell membranes, fatty acids, proteins, and eventually the DNA, and in doing so, damage the cells.

The radicals are toxic to the cells they attach to,
and cause sufficient cellular damage to eventually kill them.

When free radicals and antioxidants exchange one electron,
no damage occurs.

Dr. John Edwards on his CD "The Secret Behind Mangosteen and Minerals", copyright 2007, HotBizTools, compares these unstable fellows to a newly divorced man who runs around looking for a new wife to stabilize his life. Once he finds one, he settles down and drops out of the stream.
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For a complete graphical explanation of how free radicals develop and antioxidants neutralize the free radicals so they can't harm healthy tissue go to

Fighting Free Radicals

Just about any chronic, inflammatory, degenerative, immune-compromised disease can be related to oxidative stress from these unstable molecules.

Just to list a few:

* aging	* arthritis
* asthma	* atherosclerosis
* Alzheimer's	* cancer
* chronic fatigue	* cholitis/diverticulitis
* dementia	* diabetes
* diseases of the eyes	* fibromyalgia
* heart disease	* kidney disease
* liver disease	* and the list goes on.

I've singled out sports injuries because I, personally, never made the connection between physical activity, free radicals and antioxidants.

I always figured that exercise is good for you, and it is if you are a person who exercises on a regular basis and takes a good combination of antioxidants.

You need a good supply of antioxidants to counteract the free radicals you produce because of the increased demand for oxygen during exercise. You also need vitamins and minerals to make your muscles function efficiently.

Do you take antioxidants to counteract the extra free radicals produced?
How about vitamins and minerals?

If not, you could be hurting, rather than helping, yourself.

Continue exercising, but add a good combination of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants(preferably in liquid form) to your daily routine,

Muscle soreness, fatigue, injury, the need to take a few days off in between exercise....

These are all symptoms of too many of these unstable molecules hanging around. The proper level of free radicals and antioxidants can correct this.

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