Will The Real Cancer Producers Stand Up?
© By Lena Sanchez
They can't really stand up but they are running around
your body!
Cancer and other illnesses are proliferating in your
body as you read this!
Those cancer producing creatures called free-radicals
are over producing and roaming your body just waiting for the moment
to make you ill.
Defense and defeat is the secret to preventing them
from successful producing illness and disease!
Antioxidants defenders to the rescue, if you let them!
Antioxidants are necessary to neutralize harmful molecules
in called free radicals. While free radicals play some essential roles
in health producing energy and fighting infections. On the other hand
over-population of them causes oxidation thereby damaging your body's
cells.
Over-population of free-radicals have been traced
to the lack of minerals, vitamins, along with environmental poisoning
– both internal and external - along with foods lacking the
nutrients to keep us health.
Oxidation from too many free-radicals age cells and
sets the stage for many illnesses, heart disease, viral invasions
and various kinds of cancer.
There are many different types of free radicals, and
no single antioxidant can neutralize all of them. Your best bet is
to take a variety of antioxidants or to use a complete antioxidant
formula. Whichever you choose.
Experts agree that the six of the known to be most
effective antioxidants are;
1. ALPHA-LIPOIC ACID: This powerful
antioxidant plays two important roles; It boosts your body's production
of glutathione an antioxidant and it helps your body recycle and reuse
other antioxidants so they can keep fighting free radicals. The therapeutic
dose for lipoic acid is 100 - 600 mg/day.
2. CAROTENOIDS: Beta-carotene is
the best-known carotenoid, but lutein and lycopene are also key. Found
in fruits and vegetables, they protect plants against free radical
damage and do the same for your body when consumed. Take at least
10 to 500 mg of mixed carotenoids daily. Not only found in fruits
and vegetables but also in greens, Brewer's yeast and a minute amount
in red meats.
3. COENZYME Q10: This free-radical
fighter plays a crucial role in maintaining cell energy. It's one
of the most frequently prescribed heart "drugs" in Japan.
Take 30 to 100 mg daily and should be taken with oil containing foods.
4. FLAVONOIDS: Fruits and vegetable
are loaded with these plant pigments, such as quercetin and anthocyanidins,
which help fight free-radical damage. Daily intake should be 250 to
2000 mg.
5. VITAMIN C: Contrary to recent
news flashes this is still a most important vitamin. This antioxidant
boosts your immunity. Most animals make their own vitamin C, but humans
have lost their ability to do so. Take intake recommendation is 500
to 2,000 mg ~ NOTE: People who have hemachromatosis or a history of
kidney stones should limit intake to 250 mg daily.
6. VITAMIN E: This may very well
be the single most important vitamin you can take. Its role in preventing
coronary heart disease has been studied for more than 50 years. Take
400 IU daily of the Natural form, d-alpha tocopherol. ~NOTE: If you
are on blood thinners or aspirin daily, Vitamin E may intensify the
blood-thinning effect of these drugs. Talk to your doctor about reducing
your medication dosage to make it possible to take Vitamin E.
Maximize absorption in foods you eat:
Take folic acid and B vitamins with food. Many people have a genetic
defect that limits folic acid absorption otherwise.
Here's some tips on supplement labels.
1. In natural brands, the most common additives that
give a tablet its form, are cellulose and magnesium stearates, which
appear to be safe.
2. Conventional brands, usually found in pharmacies
and grocery stores, contain a variety of sweeteners & chemicals
- making them difficult to impossible to be absorbed – and/or
colors that are unnecessary and may cause allergic reactions. Among
those additives are lactose, modified food starch, corn starch, polysorbate
80, sucrose, fructose, maltodextrin, polyethylene glycol, artificial
colors, and edible ink.
3. Supplement bottles will usually give the percentage
of or DV (daily value) of each nutrient your supplement contains.
The DV (daily value) is a dosage guide considered more up-to-date
but roughly still equivalent to the old RDA (Recommended dietary allowance).
At the end of the list, you may find nutrients without an established
DV. Don't be put off by this -many important nutrients, such as carotenoids
and flavonoids don't have DVs.
4. Vegetarians should avoid capsules made of gelatin,
an animal byproduct. Choose brands with cellulose instead.
Antioxidants - the illness defeater and health defender…
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***Lena Sanchez a happy retired Medical Office
Nurse/Administrator/Consultant who took charge of her life 8 years
ago and is committed to helping others do the same… Editor of
‘Natural Environmental Health Facts & Your Home Business
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