The next generation - Pycnogenol Complex
If there’s one factor that has the greatest negative
impact on our health, it is the damage done to our cells
by free radicals. These highly unstable molecules disrupt
the biochemical processes that regulate life. Although a
natural product of oxygen metabolism in the body, free
radicals are also produced in vast quantities by modern
technology. Our bodies’ natural defenses simply have not
been able to keep up with the onslaught of these dangerous
products of civilization.
On the other hand, technology has offered help by
identifying some of nature’s most powerful weapons
against free radical attack. Source Naturals
PYCNOGENOL® COMPLEX is an unprecedented
combination of these extremely potent plantbased
antioxidants, or Plantioxidants™. Consider
them your antidote to the industrial revolution.
How free radicals
are formed and
their effect on the
body
Oxygen both makes life, and takes life. The energy that animates us
comes from the biochemical reactions that burn oxygen within
our cells. And though carefully regulated by the body, this biological
combustion, over time, inevitably leads to cellular damage.
If oxidation is not carefully controlled, tissues are damaged faster than
the body can repair them. This is caused by an excess of over-reactive, electron
hungry molecules called oxidants or “free radicals,” which tend to disrupt
normal cellular activity. Free radicals attack a cell’s membrane and can
even damage its hereditary blueprint (DNA).
Since free radicals are a natural result of certain metabolic reactions, the
body synthesizes several types of antioxidant enzymes to neutralize them.
In addition, we get essential antioxidants from the foods we eat. Vitamins
C, E and beta carotene are the ones found most often in our diet.
During this century, our environment has become a perpetual source of
free radical contamination, primarily from radiation and the chemical pollution
in our air, water and food. ...
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