Get Notified when there's something new from Health in FocusFree Radicals - Part 2: They're All Around Us!
By Jacobus Hollewijn
May 18, 2025
Your Daily Health Pearl Minute # 17
Substances that generate free radicals can be found in the food we eat, the medicines we take, the air we breathe and the water we drink. This is according to the Huntington's Outreach Project for Education at Stanford University.
These substances include fried foods, alcohol, tobacco smoke, pesticides and air pollutants. Free radicals are highly reactive forms of oxygen (such as oxidative stress) that damage vital cell components like proteins, enzymes, and mitochondria, and that reprogram DNA.
Because of their presence in our daily surroundings, they have been implicated in some diseases related to “old age.”
Free radicals are byproducts of normal daily cellular metabolism, which is how the cells utilize energy. But also outside sources like the above mentioned substances, as well as organic solvents, and other pollutants help in their formation.
When the rate of free radical production exceeds the body’s ability to detoxify them, they become highly toxic. And, if for whatever reason our body cannot fight that potential toxicity, getting a disease will happen more frequently; and aging will accelerate.
Therefore, it would benefit almost everyone to take daily antioxidants, preferably a combination of them, so they address different parts of our body-system. For example, look into Astaxanthin, Pycnogenol, Grape Seed extract, Resveratrol, and different carotenoids such as Zeaxanthin and Lutein. They have great, successful research behind them.
And at times feel free to double or triple the recommended dose to have better and quicker results.
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