What is antioxidants


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Have you heard about antioxidants in commercial health product? There’s many health product advertise the antioxidants include in their product. Do you really understand about antioxidants? Let’s read some basic information.
Antioxidants are a broad group of compounds that neutralize or destroy free radicals in our bodies. It will protect against oxidative damage to cells and reduce the oxidation reactions. It include a group of minerals, herbs, enzymes and vitamins. The antioxidant is important in the context of organic chemistry and biology living cells contain complex systems of antioxidant chemicals and/or enzymes to prevent chemical damage to the cells’ components by oxidation. The key roles of antioxidants are to protect body cells from being damage.The people who suffered with vitamin shortage get major problem in their health. Using antioxidants, they can feel difference in their health. Often you use the powerful selection of herbal or natural products to help put your body in greater functioning capacity.

Benefits of antioxidants include normalizing blood clotting, restoring libido and even helping preventing other diseases. There’s a high correlation between occurrence of disease and oxidative damage with cardiovascular disease. Antioxidants can help slow down or prevent the oxidation process, and thus help prevent or repair damage done to your body’s cells by oxygen. Antioxidants can be found in vitamins A, E, and C, such as blueberries, grapes, apples, and strawberries, corn, carrots, tomatoes,and peppers.Studies suggested that high blood concentrations of antioxidant vitamins or dietary intake of antioxidants could protect against cardiovascular disease and cancer. In another study researchers found that antioxidants helps in damaging the brain tumors.

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