Careening Radicals Are Bouncing Around
By: Lena Sanchez

Careening Radicals Are Bouncing Around
Or Cancer In The Making!
© By Lena Sanchez

Those careening free-radicals are causing billions of
dollars a year in health care! Are you next?

Free-radicals careen around wildly like unguided missiles,
damaging everything they touch and causing a chain reaction
of trauma. It is now well established that free radicals are a
critical factor in most health problems, including hardening
of the arteries, which can lead to conditions involving the
heart, eyes and bone/joint health (Knight 1995) &
(Cures, Robert Willix, M.D. 1994)

A most interesting fact about free radicals is that they
cause the same reactions within cells that occur during
exposure to radiation, and the results of these reactions
are indistinguishable from those of natural aging
(Riley 1994). Consequently, it has been suggested
that certain compounds known to protect against
radiation damage also would be useful antioxidants
and may even be beneficial for increasing life span.

Free radicals are even suspect to be an important
mechanism of aging; the more of them that are running
amok, the greater the vulnerability of healthy cells.
However, there's a way to take back your power, up the
odds in your favor and defeat this deadly force.

Free radicals are not always harmful; they're used by
the immune system to destroy many invading
microorganisms. In bone and joint problems the body's
own antibodies begin to attack the joints, causing cellular
damage, as they are unleashed by the body upon itself
(Barber 1994).

But free radicals tend to react with cellular DNA, often
causing the DNA strand to actually break. There is
also strong evidence that FREE RADICALS may not
only initiate DNA mutations, but also encourage
damaged cells to multiply.

Scientist, Dr. Denham Harman, M.D. PhD founder
of Free Radical Theory of Aging feels that the free
radical reactions play a significant role in the
age-related deterioration of the cardiovascular and
central nervous systems. Free radical reactions
also may be significantly involved in the formation
of the neuritic plaques associated with senile dementia
of the Alzheimer type. In studies, these plaques were
more prevalent in senile people than in those who
were not senile. Studies are ongoing in that
department.

Oxygen free radicals released in our bodies also
destroy the proteins that are essential constituents
of the body, regulate our hormones and enzymes
and compose our nerves, muscles, skin and hair.
In other words, those wrinkles that we fear are
also the dirty work of oxygen free radicals. Created
by both internal consumption of processed foods
and external use of chemical laden products on
our body.

Antioxidants can protect against free radical
damage in the body. In fact, unusually low levels
of such antioxidants are linked to an increased
risk of damaged cell growths and heart problems.
As a result it is believed that taking antioxidant
vitamin supplements that "scavenge" free radicals
can potentially decrease this risk.

Are you practicing prevention? Prevention is
always better than spending thousands of dollars
and ill health after the fact! Daily prevention
includes taking a quality liquid, powder or capsule
antioxidant compound twice daily or pick up each
individual antioxidant form.

Antioxidants are Selenium, Vitamin A, Vitamin E
and Beta-Carotene. These are found in small
amounts in fruits and vegetables of which we are
unable to get in sufficient quantities in our fruits
and vegetables to keep our immune systems
tuned up and keep us as well as we can be,
according to the Congressional study done in 1936.

"Without your health you are nothing," is a phrase
often repeated to me by patients over the years
and I believe them. You should too! So I wish
you good health and success in all things.

Prevention starts with Vitamins along with liquid or
powdered minerals! Without the proper amounts you
are opening yourself up to free radicals! Reason why
was noted as far back as 1936… See US Congress
messaged at http://www.envirodocs.com/1936_excerpt.htm

My choice of a great all around fast absorbing effective Antioxidant Free Radical Control Formula can be found at http://www.envirodocs.com/antioxidant_formula.htm

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About the Author

Author and Retired Medical Office Nurse/Administrator and Medical Office Consultant Health Educator and Internet Real Estate Dealership

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