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By Alexis
Studies have found that we are all affected by a daily force, which we don't see. But it is there and it can reduce our health and youthful glow, when left unchecked.
This invisible, but a very real force is called Free radicals.
These pesky, harmful molecules damage our cells, skin and organs every hour, every minute, every second of our lives. They oxidize us. They steal our electrons. And everything happens on such a small level, we can never see it coming.
Many recent lab experiments proved that free radicals are a well established cause of rapid aging, health decline, inflammation, oxidation, disease, age-related damage, mental and physical declines.
If you're like me then you've heard a lot about free radicals this, and antioxidants that, but let me do a quick refresher on what are free radicals and how they make us age faster.
Then we'll jump directly into how to stop them. When we reduce the effect of free radicals on our bodies, our tissue, organs and skin have enough time to regenerate and feel healthier.
Free radicals are tiny molecules that hit our bodies from the outside (air quality, eco factors, uv-radiation, etc), and they are also created from the inside based on the food we eat, our daily routines, etc.
What makes these free radicals so bad is an unpaired electron in its structure.
An unpaired electron makes this free radical molecule unstable to a point where it can "steal" an electron from another perfectly healthy molecule... So a free radical hitting our body from inside (food) and outside (uv-radiation) can randomly steal electrons from other healthy cells in our bodies.
As you can imagine when done continuously, over time, this process may lead to decay and disease. In order to combat these free radicals we need antioxidants. Antioxidants is our "molecular antidote" against the harmful free radicals.
Antioxidants are the opposite of free radicals. We should take enough of them each day for optimal health.
Antioxidants, opposite of free radicals, have additional electrons to give. When they bump against a free radical in the microspace of our bodies, they can give a free electron without any issues. When a free radical gets enough electrons on its orbits, it stabilizes. That's how antioxidants counter free radicals.
Antioxidants are found in foods, teas and wines and especially in high superfoods like Chaga. As free radicals are an ongoing daily process, we recommend at least a cup a day of high antioxidant herbal tea like Chaga or Ivan tea.
Ask yourself: do you really want to leave free radicals to a chance? Probably not, right? And I hope by now you're thinking of different antioxidant foods to include in the diet.
Just the practice of purposely taking antioxidants each day can do wonders for your body. Once you add that a habit, it becomes a whole lot easier to support your natural health.
What do you think of that deep dive? Do you already know all this? Are you inspired to fight free radicals? We’d love to know in the comments.
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