What is antioxidant? Antioxidant protects our cells so that the „bad guys“ called free radicals couldn’t attack us. They protect us from getting rusty from inside out so that our skin wouldn’t dry and saves us from wrinkles. It also protects us from getting cancer and many other diseases. One free radical can destroy enzyme, protein molecule, DNA chain or even the whole cell.
Free radicals appear mainly in four ways:
1. Environment – damaged air, cigarette smoke, soot, exhaust gas from cars, pesticides, medications, certain foods.
2. Within the organism – our body produces free radicals itself.
3. Stressfactors – missing sleep hours may produce 8 times more free radicals in our body than normally.
4. Chain reactions – if free radical steals an electron to balance itself it creates a new free radical.
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