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The Antioxidant Network

When free radicals tear through the body, the molecules they damage also become free radicals. The same is true of antioxidants. After quenching a free radical, an antioxidant molecule doesn't just disappear. Instead, used-up antioxidants are themselves transformed into mild free radicals. But because the "radicalized" antioxidant is less immediately toxic to the body than the free radicals they neutralize, the overall effect of antioxidants is favourable.

The potential for slow-acting pathology from "radicalized" antioxidants can be prevented through taking advantage of unique synergistic interactions of an elite antioxidant strike force: the Networking Antioxidants.

When taken together, these specific, biologically essential nutrients form a dynamic team of synergistic "co antioxidants". Networking antioxidants can "recycle" one another from their "radicalized" forms back into their active, antioxidant forms. By this process of mutual regeneration, networking antioxidants enhance and extend one another's capacities, fueled by the fires of life in the body's cellular "power plants" (mitochondria).
There are exactly five networking antioxidants: R(+)-lipoic acid, the vitamin E complex, Vitamin C, coenzyme Q10 and glutathione.

The networking antioxidants have a genuine synergy with one another. The effects of each networking antioxidant support greater functionality of the antioxidant network as a whole. No other antioxidants participate in the interlocking cycles of the antioxidant network. In fact, the ability of other antioxidants to play a protective role in the body depends on having a functional Antioxidant network.

A few antioxidants do play a supporting role to networking antioxidants, without fully participating in the antioxidant network recycling system. The best understood of these Network "boosters" are bioflavonoids are the minerals elenium. Among bioflavonoids, carnosic acid- which is found in the herb rosemary - is especially interesting because of its ability to repeatedly rearrange itself into a "cascade" of new antioxidant "booster" forms before being exhausted. Selenium supports the network by maintaining the body's supply of two key enzymes: glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase.

What is an Antioxidant?

Antioxidants are nutrients that help to protect your body from the damage caused by free radicals - the toxic molecules that play a role in the development of diseases from cataracts to heart disease, from arthritis to healthy cell growth. While our bodies produce some of these free radicals as the "garbage" from some its natural processes, we are now exposed to more and more of them from our environment than ever before.

The chemical pollution of our air and water now leave us exposed to very powerful free radicals that we have never been exposed to in the past. In combination with the nutrient depletion of our foods from modern chemical agriculture, we now also get less of the important nutrients from it that would normally help our immune systems fight these chemical invaders. This is why many nutritional doctors recommend their patients take supplements of antioxidants.

How Antioxidants Protect Your Cells:

When a free radical enters your body, it is attracted to the cells that make up the different tissues of it just like a magnet to metal. It then bonds to parts of the cell, which causes it to deteriorate in a way similar to that which oxygen causes metal to rust. If the cell gets damaged enough, it dies. Worse yet, if the cell DNA is damaged and then the cell reproduces, it reproduces abnormally as a result. When this happens to our skin, we get wrinkles; when it happens to our oxygen carrying blood vessels, we get hardening of the arteries; when it happens to our joints, we get arthritis; in some people..

Antioxidants work by bonding with the free radical before it can bond to the cells of your body, thus neutralizing it. This now harmless substance is then deconstructed or merely excreted.

Common Disorders Caused By Oxidative Damage

Cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, wrinkles, premature aging, cardiovascular disease are all affected and exacerbated by oxidative damage to different parts of the body. It is now widely accepted even among mainstream practitioners that free radical damage is a major cause of these diseases.