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Careening Radicals Are Bouncing Around

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

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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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