Free Radical Protocol

      

“In addition to their role in aging free radicals have been associated with cardiovascular disease, cancer, eye diseases, arthritis and other health problems.” Harman

“The difference in life spans among different mammals is largely a result of the animal’s ability to repair damaged DNA.” Diplock, Note keeping the damage from happening in the first place is important also

“Low magnesium levels are associated with dramatic increases in free radical generation as well as glutathione depletion.” Doctor Russell Blaylock

“Vitamin C is among the strongest and most versatile of the antioxidants. It quenches free radicals and also recharges other antioxidants including vitamin E and glutathione. Vitamin C protects the B vitamins from oxidative damage.”  Udo Erasmus

“The ‘side effects’ of prescription drugs and the toxic effects of many pesticides and poisons can be explained by free radical chain reactions initiated by these substances.” Udo Erasmus, Note here is a source of free radicals you can EASILY ELIMINATE forever

“Certain foods contain free radicals which, when eaten, enter the body and damage it. The major sources of dietary free radicals are chemically-altered fats from commercial vegetable oils, vegetable shortening and all oils heated to very high temperatures.” Stephen Byrnes, Note commercial vegetable oils are implicated in the endothelial damage which may begin the atherosclerotic process 

“Excessive sugar intake can also contribute to free radical damage. White and brown sugars, and even sugar from so-called natural sources, such as fruit and fruit juices, maple syrup and honey, get converted into triglycerides by the liver and are subject to free radical damage. These damaged fats then promptly attack your arteries and directly contribute to cardiovascular disease. Additionally, cancer and tumor cells feed off of sugar. It is for this reason that excessive sugar intake correlates very strongly with heart disease, cancer and a host of other ailments.” Stephen Byrnes, Note here is a source of free radicals you can ELIMINATE forever

”Free radicals are also released in the body from the detoxification of drugs (whether legal or illegal), artificial food colorings and flavorings, smog, preservatives in processed foods, alcohol, cigarette smoke, chlorinated drinking water, pesticides, radiation, cleaning fluids, heavy metals such as cadmium and lead, and assorted chemicals such as solvent traces found in processed foods and aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene and naphthalene (found in moth balls).” Stephen Byrnes

“In reality, oxidative stress from a high sugar environment is the biggest trigger factor for increased cholesterol production in the body. Simple logic dictates that control of oxidative stress and sugar imbalances will automatically normalize the blood cholesterol level. And indeed it does. Looking at the broader picture, one can easily surmise that the culprit of many degenerative diseases, including high cholesterol, premature aging, and arthrosclerosis, rest with the imbalance of two simple elements - oxygen and sugar. Oxidative stress, from excessive free radical damage in the oxygen respiratory chain, damages vascular walls.  This leads to the excessive production of LDL cholesterol by the liver as the body tries to repair the "damaged vessels" which are undetectable by current laboratory measurements.” Doctor Michael Lam MD

"A research team investigated whether Garlic's allicin could be as effective as claimed. Through experiments with synthetically produced allicin, they found that sulfenic acid produced when the compound decomposes rapidly reacts with dangerous free radicals. Researchers said that the reaction between the sulfenic acid and radicals is as fast as it can get, limited only by the time it takes for the two molecules to come into contact. No other compound has been observed to react as an antioxidant so quickly." Science Daily January 31, 2009

“Prevention and treatment of cataracts are probably the more scientifically documented and beneficial uses of dietary supplements. Free radical action has been directly linked to and accepted as one of the major causes of cataracts and damage to the healthy eye.”  Life Extension

"When topically applied vitamin C provides a skin-rejuvenating effect by improving collagen synthesis in the skin that slows down with aging as well as limiting skin damage from free radicals. Topical vitamin C is one of the most effective ways to boost collagen synthesis and slow it's degradation. Applying vitamin C to the skin is 20 times more effective than oral ingestion." Life Extension, Note please continue to get your at least 3 grams/day orally also!

"Wolfberry is found to have the highest ORAC value of all fruits; it is highly effective at scavenging superoxide radicals and preventing their formation. When given to patients aged 64 - 80, wolfberry increased blood levels of SOD by 48% and lowered dangerous blood lipid peroxides by 65% in only 10 days." Life Extension 

"I just read nine studies that show a connection between your aches and pains and something called “oxidative stress.” That’s when rogue electrons – a.k.a. “free radicals” – break away and attack healthy cells. In one study, fibromyalgia patients were treated with antioxidants. Magnesium and malic acid improved pain levels by 59% in only 4 weeks. Symptoms continued to improve. By 8 weeks, pain levels improved by 69%. The placebo group had no improvement. Their pain got worse."     Doctor Al Sears MD

"A growing body of scientific evidence shows the berry polyphenols' antioxidant capacity powerfully targets numerous degenerative diseases, form cancer and CVD to impaired glucose control and blood lipid abnormalities."   Life Extension

   

Free Radicals

A free radical is any atom with at least one unpaired electron in the outermost shell. Some Free Radicals are created naturally in the process of metabolism and some are created external to your body. A Free Radical is an unstable atom and it will tend to steal an electron from another atom. When free radicals in your body steal an electron from a surrounding compound or molecule a new free radical is formed. Unless the free radical is quenched by some type of antioxidant this process can create a chain reaction which can involve several tens of thousands of molecules. This process can do much damage to your body.

Free radicals may destroy tissue or worse our DNA. Our body has enzymes to repair damaged DNA but the less damage the better.

 

Internal Free Radical Sources

"White blood cells generate free radicals purposely in order to kill invading bacteria and microorganisms. Unfortunately these free radicals don't have a very good aim and they end up not just killing the foreign bacteria but also causing damage to healthy tissue. As free radicals are being made our bodies are detoxifying them either with antioxidant enzymes or vitamins."   Prevention

Free radicals are created inside our body by the normal processes of daily living. Your body has coped by evolving an almost incomprehensible system of antioxidant families to counter each and every free radical type created. If any of these antioxidant families is lacking or weak damage will be done to your body. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals by donating one of their own electrons, ending the electron-"stealing" reaction. The antioxidant nutrients themselves don’t become free radicals by donating an electron because they are stable in either the antioxidant form or the reduced form, the antioxidant's state after donating an electron.

Many foods also contain antioxidants.

     

Free Radicals and Oxygen

  

Free Radical Sources

"Every day every cell in the human body (100 trillion) must withstand an estimated 10,000 individual assaults from externally introduced reactive oxygen species or free radicals."   Life Extension

• Air pollution

• Alcohol

• Cigarette Smoke

• Chemicals

• Chlorine (See Chlorine Protocol)

• Drugs    ALL and EVERY Drug

• Exercise

• Fluoride

• Fried, charbroiled or burned food

• Household cleaning chemical products

• Metabolism

• Paints

• Pesticides

• Petroleum Products

• Processed Food

• Radiation

• Solvents

• Stress

• Sugar

• Sunlight

• Surgery

• Transfats

• Trauma

• Many Others

  

The organic food movement was born in part because of the free radicals produced by pesticides and other chemical residues on or in the chemically produced food. Make sure your drinking water is free of all chemicals including chlorine and the deadly fluoride.

More

http://www.healthchecksystems.com/antioxid.htm

http://www.exrx.net/Nutrition/Antioxidants/Introduction.html

http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/oxidativestress.html