Antioxidants

Antioxidants maybe one of the keyword that more of people has heard but don't has any idea what it is, you may heard from someone in your neighborhood or radio, even from TV broadcast.

To understand antioxidants, let’s start with how oxygen works in the body. We breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. We use Oxygen in our bodies for a variety of vitally important functions in the body, but oxygen happens to be a very unstable molecule.

In the course of the normal chemical reactions that occur in the bloodstream or inside our cells, oxygen can easily be damaged. Oxygen can be damaged, when lose some of its electrons or perhaps gain some. And while electrons normally orbit a molecule’s nucleus in as calm, just like the moon circles Earth, oxygen’s electrons can slip into off kilter orbits.

The point is that we have millions of oxygen molecules in our bodies, and they easily become unstable. When that happens, they become like piranhas and when this happen, it will ready to take a bite out of the cells which use to make up your skin, blood vessels, internal organs, or any other part of your body.

These piranhas are unstable and dangerous oxygen molecules, we called free radicals. Free radicals can attack body chromosomes, the strands of DNA that lie deep within your cells and hold all the genes that make you who you are.

When oxygen free radicals damage chromosomes, cells start to lose their ability to control their basic functions. They can begin to multiply out of control and that is the beginning of cancer.

Biologists and many medicine researchers believe that much of the aging process and many cancers are caused by free radical damage.

Even on natural, plants also can be damaged by oxygen free radicals, too. But nature has given them the ability to produce natural compounds that act like shields to defend against these wild oxygen molecules.

Those natural compounds are called “antioxidants”—they protect the plant from oxygen free radicals. And when you eat plants, their antioxidants enter your bloodstream and act to protect you, too.

When all goes well, the free radicals—the unstable oxygen molecules—attack the antioxidants and leave your cells and chromosomes alone in the same way that a bullet might dent the hardened surface of an armored car but spare the occupants inside.

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