This Super Antioxidant Formula is specially combined in an all natural synergistic base of select herbs, bioflavinoids and all natural ingredients including Rose Hips, Hesperidin Complex, Citrus Bioflavinoids, Chamomille, Rutin, Rosemary Ginko Leaf, Echinacea and Grape Seed Extract. 

     Take one to three a day in addition to your regular multi-vitamin / mineral supplementation.

Why Antioxidants are Important -
Especially for Athletes and Fitness Enthusiasts

   The word "antioxidant" comes from the Greek "anti," meaning "against," plus "oxys," referring to oxidation. So, antioxidants are substances that work against oxidation.

    In your body, certain oxygen molecules, called free radicals, are normally produced by your body's own metabolism. But too many free radicals can cause problems.
   
   Many factors can cause your body to produce more free radicals than are needed. These may include smoking, drinking alcohol, too much fat in your diet, too much sun, even too much exercise, and too many pollutants in the air you breathe.  When your body produces too many free radicals, the "extra" free radicals prey on healthy molecules.

    Electrons normally exist in pairs. But free radicals have an unpaired electron. So they "raid" other molecules in your body to get an electron to pair up with, leaving the raided molecule short an electron. This causes changes in molecules (oxidation) that can eventually lead to disease. 
  
    Antioxidants prevent this process by releasing unpaired electrons to "neutralize" the harmful, excess free radicals (which then do not need to "raid" healthy molecules and cause oxidation).

    Free radicals are simply extremely reactive molecules, created as a waste by-product by the body's metabolic processes.  Free radicals are so destructive that they are now regarded as primary agents of degeneration and death in nearly all living things, and have been shown to be responsible for the initiation of heart disease, aging, cancer, and other degenerative diseases.

    What antioxidants do is simply neutralize the free radicals, reducing their ability to damage the cells.

    Antioxidants that occur naturally in your body, or are obtained from certain foods may block some of this damage by donating electrons to stabilize and neutralize the harmful effects of the free radicals.

   Antioxidants can scavenge free radicals before they cause damage, or prevent oxidative damage from spreading out.

   The antioxidant defense systems in the human body are extensive and consist of multiple layers that protect at different sites and against different types of free radicals. An important part of the intracellular antioxidant defense systems are antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase, and peroxidases.

    The enzyme SOD dismutates two molecules of O2*-per reaction cycle, i.e., oxidizes one molecule of O2*- to O2 and, with the electron released during this oxidation process, reduces a second O2*- molecule to H2O2 ( 2O2*- + 2H+ O2 + H2O2). In addition to these antioxidant enzymes, there are several small molecule antioxidants that also play an important role in antioxidant defense systems, particularly in the extracellular space, where antioxidant enzymes are absent or present in small quantities only.

    The small molecule antioxidants can be separated into lipid-soluble and water-soluble antioxidants. The lipid-soluble antioxidants are localized to membranes and lipoproteins, whereas the water-soluble ones are present in extracellular and intracellular fluids.

     Antioxidants, have been found to slow, block or reverse oxidative changes in body substances and cells. For example, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) prevents the conversion of nitrates (from tobacco smoke, smog, bacon, lunch meats, & some vegetables) into cancer-causing substances.

     Vitamin E retards cellular aging due to oxidation. It also helps to block oxidation that converts LDL cholesterol from a form that stays in the blood to a form that can stick to and clog arteries (atherosclerotic plaque buildups).   

     Beta carotene has been shown to reverse precancerous changes in cells that line the mouth and cervix.

     Natural and synthetic antioxidants are added to food to prevent undesirable deterioration. Foods preserved with antioxidants include vegetable oils, bread, and cheese. Antioxidants are also frequently applied to the packaging materials of cereals and nuts.

  Basically, antioxidants have the ability to trap organic free radicals and/or deactivate excited oxygen molecules. Practically speaking, they play a sigificant role in the prevention of aging, atherosclerosis (heart disease), certain types of cancer, cataracts, inflammatory-immune injuries / auto-immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus), ARDS (Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome), AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), etc.

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