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so today I want to touch on the

antioxidant Network okay you may have

heard of antioxidants and free radicals

I just want to explain simply how it all

works in a very simplistic presentation

okay so a free radical is a an atom with

an unpaired electron basically if you

envision a little spinning disk okay

with two weights on it if you take one

of the weights off you’re going to see

this little non symmetrical spinning

disk and it’s going to be lopsided it’s

not going to be very very smooth it’s

going to be erratic right so that would

be a free radical an antioxidant is an

atom that has a paired electron so it

spins nicely and it’s balanced okay it’s

stable in nature so this is very

unstable and this can create a lot of

damage inside your body you can kind of

think of it as rust on your car the

oxidation from the water and the oxygen

it goes on there and it’s just rest a

hole in your car I’m from Wisconsin we

have a lot of salt on the road and we

have a lot of cars and arrested but

anyway examples of free radicals or

oxidants would be iron free iron like in

some of the enriched foods that we

consume radiation sugar large quantities

of sugar really destroy the body

chemicals pollution smoking vegetable

oils can act as an oxidant and create

free radicals and so an antioxidant what

it does is it donates it gives up one of

its electrons to make this free radical

stable now the problem is when vitamin E

for example gives up this electron it

becomes unstable it becomes a free

radical but not as severe as this but it

still becomes unstable and that’s why we

have a network we have many different

antioxidants so for example vitamin C

would then donate one of its electrons

to vitamin E so vitamin C really helps

vitamin E stay in there and do its work

a lot longer vitamin E is really

important in keeping the inside of the

arteries

really really healthy so these two work

together and so then vitamin C will

become unstable and it can borrow

electrons from one of the other

antioxidants so then you have zinc

involved as an antioxidant it actually

is really good to lower inflammation

selenium vitamin b1 it can act as an

antioxidant and it protects the cells

against damage so if you have two

diabetics for example and one is b1

deficient the other one is not the one

that is b1 deficient will experience the

complications of diabetes so these

antioxidants protect your body from the

damage from free iron and radiation and

sugar and chemicals industrial oils this

is why it’s so important to consume

foods with antioxidants not necessarily

as some synthetic version I’m talking

about actual food cruciferous vegetables

healthy foods with plenty of nutrients

vitamin C zinc selenium and by the way

zinc oysters seafood lobster high in

zinc selenium Brazil nuts vitamin C all

the leafy greens lipoic acid is another

great antioxidant and it’s a fat soluble

so it has the ability to penetrate into

the cell and protect the cell at

different locations and then we have

something called uric acid now you’re

probably thinking wait a second I

thought uric acid was bad it’s involved

in gout and kidney stones right well

it’s also a very powerful antioxidant

even more plentiful than vitamin C in

the body so it’s there to help clean up

damage from various things from oxidants

now one point about oxidants is that

your body actually makes oxidants okay

and it also comes from the environment

as well so your body makes hydrogen

peroxide for example it makes things to

basically defend the body kills off

microbes kills off microbes and also

it’s there to kill cells to kill its own

cells because you have this constant

repair action so the body is there to

kill off and get rid of old dead cells

and then replace them every

second you replace five million cells

okay now how does the body kill those

cells with oxidants its own oxidants but

you still need the antioxidants to

repair some of the damage that’s

happening from this massive killing

action so we have this entire system

that’s there to defend the body against

microbes and replace old damaged cells

so then we have all these antioxidants

here to make sure that we don’t have too

many free radicals too much damage from

this right here and also to clean up any

damage from our own body making oxidants

replacing the cells and defending

against microbes all right so that’s

just kind of an overview in another

reason why you should continue to

consume cruciferous vegetables and other

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