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 "Antioxidants oppose oxidation, a natural process that occurs when a substance or chemical combines with oxygen molecules and becomes a free radical. So an "anti" oxidant protects against cellular damage caused by free radicals. Without antioxidants, what would free radicals do to us? Favorite targets of these molecular assassins include the unsaturated fatty acids on cell membranes. Free radicals begin by causing cell wall damage through the oxidation of LDL cholesterol on the cell membranes. Later, they may wreak havoc by damaging the cell membrane itself (a process called lipid peroxidation)."- Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) |
 "Free radicals are molecules that are missing an electron, so they scavenge in the body, "stealing" electrons from other molecules, which can eventually damage cells. free radical damage is often equated with the aging process because the negative effects of aging are associated with loss of cell function. Antioxidants are molecules that counteract the effects of free radicals because they give their own electrons to free radicals and so prevent them from taking electrons from the atoms in cells."- Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "This axis correlates energetically to detoxification processes in the body via free radical and antioxidant formation. Free radicals are molecules that are missing an electron, so they scavenge in the body, "stealing" electrons from other molecules, which can eventually damage cells. free radical damage is often equated with the aging process because the negative effects of aging are associated with loss of cell function." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "This auto-oxidation is a little like a chain reaction—one free radical can create another and another. The free radicals damage the body, speeding up the aging process and increasing your risk of developing heart disease and cancer. In fact, many of the complications of diabetes are related to high glucose levels and the free radicals they produce. (Antioxidants and certain vitamins, which we'll discuss in chapter 10, can neutralize free radicals."- Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) |
 "The straightforward explanation boils down to mastering the notorious free radical. Free radicals damage the tissue of your body and are generated mostly as by-products of the food (calories) we eat. Calor in Latin means "heat." When we eat calories we burn them for energy and release heat, creating free radicals in the process. It's the burning of calories that creates the free radicals. The more calories we eat, the more calories we burn, and the more free radicals we create. The fewer calories we consume, the fewer free radicals we produce—it's that simple."- Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki, The Okinawa Program : How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health (Get the book.) |
 "Normally the body can stabilize free radicals on its own, but if antioxidants are unavailable in one's diet or if free radical production becomes excessive, damage can occur, and can be especially profound on proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids (RNA and DNA). Cells possess DNA-repair enzymes that replace nucleotide (abbreviated by A, C, T, G) pairs, but it becomes an increasingly uphill battle as we age. The damage that free radicals inflict on our microscopic building blocks compromises cell function, organ function, and potentially the functioning of major body systems."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "Thus, the free radical activity in such fats has a severely damaging effect on cells, tissues, and organs.
Oxygen free radicals can form in refined, polyunsaturated oils and fats once they are exposed to air and sunlight before consumption. The free radicals may also form in the tissues after the oils or fats have been ingested."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "It also defuses the hydroxy radical, as well as the lipid peroxy radical that first results from free radical attack on the cell membrane. Work by Bruce Ames at the University of California, Berkeley, has shown that uric acid can be present at high levels in the bloodstream, far higher than is common with vitamin C. His work has also shown that red blood cells can take up uric acid from the bloodstream, which helps protect them against lipid peroxidation. Dr."- Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.) "Such doshic balance enhances homeostatic balance in the body's biochemistry and favors self-repair mechanisms over free radical damage. If a person's underlying body type is, for example, 60% Vat, 30% Pitt and 10% Kaph, then these proportions should be maintained. Each dosha should maintain its optimum level; it should not become too weak or too strong (aggravated). When doshas become aggravated or excessive, this especially creates imbalance, and that imbalance can lead to disease." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.) "Research at the National Institute of Aging (NIA) has tied this to free radical damage. This work has demonstrated that some mammals can burn many more calories per pound of body weight than others. Mice and gerbils, for instance, are given an average life allotment of 200,000 calories per gram of body weight. When they have burned that many calories, on the average, their lives end. Non-human primates, on the other hand, have double the allotment, 400,000 calories per gram, and humans get double that again, roughly 800,000 calories per gram." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.) |
| "He goes on to state that there are free radical scavengers that can tie up free radicals and that may also protect cell walls from peroxidation and free radical attack. Vitamin E is involved in cell membrane protection preventing peroxidation of cell membranes. Vitamin C is a free radical scavenger, knocking out the free radicals by inactivating them. He explains the high incidence of urinary bladder cancer among smokers is due to lack of vitamin C that is inactivated by products in the smoke." - Maurice Finkel, Fresh hope with new cancer treatments: Over twenty natural methods for prevention, treatment, and control of cancer (Get the book.) |
 "Fats And Longevity
Living a long and vibrant life is a matter of minimizing free radical damage to the body through a diet rich in antioxidants. A free radical is an electron-deficient oxygen molecule primarily produced when electrons are being stolen from the body by refined and cooked oils (corn oil, safflower oil, etc.), excessive sugar intake and toxins, In seeking to acquire another electron, a free radical is capable of combining with and destroying enzymes, amino acids, collagen and other cellular elements."- David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.) |
 "Melatonin is a highly effective scavenger of hydroxyl radicals and per-oxyl radicals, another type of toxic free radical. In fact, melatonin has been shown to be more effective in scavenging hydroxyl radicals than other well-known antioxidants, such as glutathione.4 Melatonin appears to inactivate free radicals on a subcellular level, reaching the free radicals that may attack DNA, proteins, and lipids within cells.5 It also seems to stimulate important antioxidant enzymes within the body, including superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and glutathione reductase."- Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.) |
 "In 1954, he conceived the "free radical theory of aging."
Today, researchers recognize that virtually every disease process is caused or exacerbated by free radicals. They are present in heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. Any disease that involves inflammation, from infection to rheumatoid arthritis, is free-radical dependent because inflammation generates free radicals and is itself maintained by the presence of free radicals. Even dental disorders, such as gingivitis and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disease, involve free radicals."- Jack Challem, Burton Berkson, Melissa Diane Smith, Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance (Get the book.) |
| "Fats And Longevity
Living a long and vibrant life is a matter of minimizing free radical damage to the body through a diet rich in antioxidants. A free radical is an electron-deficient oxygen molecule primarily produced when electrons are being stolen from the body by refined and cooked oils (corn oil, safflower oil, etc.), excessive sugar intake and toxins, In seeking to acquire another electron, a free radical is capable of combining with and destroying enzymes, amino acids, collagen and other cellular elements." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.) |
 "Every time a free radical is neutralized it may have caused damage to some part of the body. Over time, the cumulative action of unrestrained free radical activity, or oxidation, manifests as aging. Although it started much earlier inside the body, it eventually becomes visibly evident as unhealthy tissue or disease symptoms.
Any food that is unnatural or changed from how nature made it can cause oxidation within the body. When food is cooked so that its enzymes are destroyed, processed with chemicals, or exposed to air for a period of time, it becomes an oxidizing agent in the body."- Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) |
 "Free Radicals and Antioxidants
When ingested foods are incompletely broken down into their constituent components, a substance known as a free radical is formed. While this process is only one potential source of these toxic waste materials, it is extremely common and highly preventable by the simple addition of enzyme supplements to the diet. Free radicals are atoms or groups of atoms with an odd (unpaired) number of electrons and can be formed when oxygen interacts with certain molecules. Once formed, these highly reactive radicals can start a chain reaction like dominoes."- Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.) |
| "Exposure to sunlight and bacterial infections promotes free radical formation. Athletes tend to generate more free radicals during strenuous exercise, when they burn more of the body's fuel. Large quantities are present in many of the pollutants our bodies are exposed to, like smoke, burnt food, car exhaust, and many chemicals. Free radicals are highly unstable molecules ready to react (oxidize) with anything. Once free radicals are formed, they can trigger a chain reaction that produces other free radicals." - Kelly J Moorhead, Spirulina: Nature's superfood (Get the book.) |
| "To prevent free radical damage, the body has a defense system of substances known as antioxidants. Antioxidants are molecules that can safely interact with free radicals and terminate the chain reaction before vital molecules are damaged. Although there are several enzyme systems within the body that scavenge free radicals, the principle nutrient sources of antioxidants are vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin C. Additionally, a trace mineral called selenium, which is required for the proper function of one antioxidant enzyme system, is sometimes included in this category." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.) |
 "A 2006 study in the science journal free radical Biology and Medicine reported finding that three commonly used chemicals in sunscreens to filter ultraviolet rays ?octyl-methoxycinnamate, benzophenone 3, and octocrylene ?can soak into deeper skin layers after application, leaving top skin layers vulnerable to UVB radiation, while reacting to UVA light in those deeper layers to generate free radicals."- Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "At a rate of ten thousand free radical "tears" in your body's cells each day, this equates to millions of tears over the course of a lifetime. If even 1 percent of the oxygen we breathed every day contained free radicals, that would equate to two kilograms per year! It is this backlog of cellular damage that contributes to the aging process and its associated diseases.
Free radicals aren't all bad. Our ancient ancestors counted on free radicals to produce mutations that probably helped advance our species. Free radicals also acted much like the first antibiotics by killing harmful germs."- Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., The Origin Diet: How Eating Like Our Stone Age Ancestors Will Maximize Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "Dandona's interest in the subject began while studying overweight subjects whose harmful free radical levels went down after they restricted dietary intake and lost weight within a short period of time. This observation led him to wonder if certain types of food could produce harmful free radicals.
In another study, Dr. Dandona found that "glucose increases inflammation and free radical generation within an hour of taking 75 grams of a glucose drink."- Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) |
| "FROM FACTS TO THEORY
There is yet one further step to take in this book. Until now we have focused almost exclusively on research facts and figures. But a new paradigm demands more than objective evidence. It also requires a new theoretical understanding. When the Wright brothers were pushing their first biplane down the slope at Kitty Hawk, many people felt that heavier-than-air machines could never fly. They did not understand the concepts of air flow and dynamic lift that explain why airplanes larger and heavier than most single family dwellings plow into the sky routinely." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.) |
 "She is definitely the bully of all estrogens and the most feared, as she is considered to be a free radical generator capable of increasing your risk of dementia, heart disease, and breast cancer. Premarin and other horse estrogens (DES) cause high levels of 4-OH estrone to form. This estrone is not harmful by itself, but if it mixes with oxygen (becomes oxidized) it transforms into free radicals known as quinones. Quinones damage blood vessels and the DNA in cells."- Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
 "A free radical is a molecule that is missing an electron, and since it wants to rebalance its electrical charge, it will try to steal an electron from wherever it can: molecules of fat, protein, DNA, etc. When DNA is altered, it can lead to cell mutation, possibly leading to cancer. Therefore, it is good to have spare electrons to give to these free radicals so that they don't wreak havoc.
A healthy, vital body contains lots of spare electrons. According to David and Annie Jubb, people who radiate, appearing to glow with light, are those with abundant spare electrons."- Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
 "He had very high levels of oxidative stress or free radical activity, including markers that told me his brain was under free radical fire and inflammation.
It seems complicated, doesn't it? Actually it's not. I simply worked through the seven kays of UltraWellness, saw how everything was connected, and created a plan to get to the causes of the problems. Then I helped Sam deal with all the biochemical and physiological rubble that those causes had left along the road.
So what did I do with Sam?
Having the new road map of Functional Medicine and UltraWellness makes itstraigitforward."- Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) |
| "Chemists use such chemicals to start free radical reactions during chemical synthesis. These chemicals are so dangerous that those who handle them in a laboratory must keep them away from their skin. When combined with other chemicals and exposed to ultraviolet light, they then generate the copious amounts of free radicals required to bring about the desired chemical reactions. On your skin, however, such chemical reactions, are everything but desirable." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "When, for example, a cell membrane is broken by a free radical, the cell loses its contents and dies. When its DNA is struck, it can no longer multiply; when its mitochondria are affected, it can no longer breathe; and so forth. Useful substances like enzymes, red corpuscles, and vitamins can also be destroyed. The destructive capabilities of free radicals are used by the body itself. The immune system, for example, intentionally creates a certain number of free radicals to destroy microbes or their toxins.
The lifespan of free radicals is quite short, from one to ten millionths of a second."- Christopher Vasey, The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health: Restore Your Health by Creating pH Balance in Your Diet (Get the book.) |
| "Long-term diabetes leads to fallen cognitive abilities probably due to the free radical generation and inflammation," he speculates.
"Those free radicals could damage all tissues in the body, and if you have an excess of sugar in your body, you're doing this continuously," continues Dr. Dandona, who was startled by another discovery—that DNA in the white blood cells of diabetics is damaged by free radicals. "This may have implications for vascular disease and cancer." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) |
| "Oxybenzone, for example, which is found in 97% of Americans, is activated by ultraviolet light that breaks its double bond to produce two free radical sites. These free radicals then oxidize and damage fats, proteins, and DNA of the cells—the types of damage that occur in skin aging and the development of skin cancers.
One major study looked at how sunscreens could increase melanoma risk. Its team of researchers, Garland, Cedric F." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
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