ANTIOXIDANTS #6: ANTIOXIDANT NETWORKS – When an antioxidant like Vitamin E neutralizes an oxygen radical with an extra electron, it protects your cells from Oxidant Stress and damage to your cells’ genes, proteins, and essential nutrients and enzymes. In the process, the antioxidant picks up the extra electron and becomes an oxygen radical itself. The Antioxidant Network brings the system back into balance by restoring vitamin E using vitamin C which becomes a radical. Now Vitamin E can work as an antioxidant again. The idea discovered at the University of California , Berkeley by Dr. Lester Packer showed that vitamin C could repair Vitamin E so it was ready to work again as an antioxidant. Glutathione and other sulfur-containing antioxidants like alpha-lipoid acid can then restore Vitamin C. In addition to these networks that chemically neutralize Oxygen radicals, the cell has enzymes including catalase and superoxide dismutase (SOD) which carry out chemical reactions that make oxidants harmless. SOD combines two oxygen radicals to make them harmless and is the most important antioxidant enzyme in the cell, but there are also many others in the cells of our body. All living cells that use oxygen to convert nutrients from food into energy using oxygen have to counter Oxidant Stress and Balanced Nutrition including the right amount of protein, vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients from colorful fruits and vegetables and dietary supplements will help you fight Oxidant Stress through these amazing networks!! Next time, I will discuss What Color is Your Diet? -So stay tuned!!
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