Most everyone has heard of antioxidants and how important they are to our health. What most don't know is that the public has been sold a bill of goods, similar to the goods that they have been sold about saturated fats (see Jan 14 blog).
The public has been told that oxygen is destroying their bodies--the free radicals of oxygen is causing our bodies to "rust, bloom with tumors and burn up." The only hope was to take synthetic antioxidants...they would "mop up free radials," were "anti-cancer, anti-heart disease and anti-arthritis." The problem is, it's simply not true.
The truth is that Americans appear to be starving for oxygen at every level. As for the free radicals that are causing aging, sickness and death, without them we would all actually die...and, quickly!
Free radicals, also known as protective prooxidants, are critical to our good health. They are involved in all our detoxification pathways--the method our body eliminates and destroys toxins and other nasty stuff. They play a key role in our immune strength and are anti-tumor and anti-cancer. They protect us from infections and are involved in the healing of all wound. Without protective prooxidants, we would quickly become lethargic, extremely tired and then totally exhausted. Finally, prooxidants are key to cellular signaling...this is the way our body's cells communicate with one another.
All that is necessary in order to obtain the necessary antioxidants is to eat whole, fresh, organic and raw foods and use whole-food supplements, which naturally contain real antioxidants. Dispose of any super potent, crystalline pure, chemical, synthetic or isolated antioxidants.
Professor Randolph M. Howes, MD has written a book about this subject, titled: "Antioxidants Linked to Deadly Unintended Consequences." How often do we deal with the "unintended consequences" of well-meaning but woefully inept medical nutritional information?
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