Sources of Free Radicals
May 4th, 2011The Free Radical Theory of Aging wasn’t on my mind 20 years ago, but the older I get the more I care about it . Free radicals are bad news. They are unstable or ruined molecules that need to steal an electron from another nearby molecule in order to restablize themselves. That action makes for another unstable molecule and the cycle repeats – starting a chain reaction that ruin the organ systems in your body as deep as the cellular level.
One clear place to see the correlation between free immoderate ruin and aging is on the face of a life long sun worshipper . with the skin we can see a conspicuous change . We can't see the Liver, lungs or intestinal system . But arteries get stopped – with cellular junk – and joints get swollen with chronic inflammation- which is directly caused by free radicals.
But at least there is some help. Antioxidants are nature’s answer to free radicals . These are molecules that are capable of donating an electron to a free immoderate without becoming unstable themselves. They stop the chain reaction and prevent the damage.
But, what’s the source of free radicals ? There are two main sources of free radicals – one source is the outside environment – think of pollution and cigarette smoke and all the chemicals and toxins we regularly ingest . And then on the other hand there are the free radicals that are prefabricated by our own bodies . There are four one-of-a-kind ways that our bodies make free radicals – oxidants.
Daily metabolism –
There is a real scientific term for the free radicals that our metabolism creates. But suffice to state that our body, in the process of creating vigour uses oxygen as fuel and converts it to water. In the process, the oxygen molecule is not absolutely and cleanly utilised. There are by-products called oxy-radicals- our own version of nuclear waste- So that’s one – large source of free radicals.
Our body uses some oxidants to fight chronic infections, bacteria and parasites. Unfortunately, in the process, other cells in our body are exposed and vulnerable to the free radicals . We fight fire with fire and sometimes manage to burn ourselves in the process . We also produce hydrogen peroxide- another free immoderate version of oxygen – when we metabolize some fatty acids.
These processes are always going on in our body and are happening in millions of cells at the same time . It’s not surprising that antioxidant supplements are so favourite and no small miracle that our body also produces some superb antioxidants like glutathione and CoEnzymeQ10 to help us deal with them.
In a final irony , an enzyme called cytochrome P450 is used by our bodies to sustain against toxins like drugs, other foreign chemicals and pesticides. In the process of creating this enzyme, our body will also produce free radicals. In a way, this makes the external toxins doubly damaging.
If you’re interested in helping your body combat the destructive effects of free radicals, you need to boost your supply of antioxidants. Some antioxidants, like Vitamins C and E can be supplemented and unquestionably a good diet is very important. Other antioxidants like Glutathione can't be supplied as an oral supplement even though you can nourish your body with the precursors -raw materials- to produce it yourself. One such product is MAXGXL, the Glutathione precursor from Max International.
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