Get That Antioxidant Magic for 2013

Want to know more about antioxidants? Here’s a great video to get you started in the New Year from Dr Oz

If there is one critical area that you would like to educate yourself about, I would urge you to look into the role that antioxidants play in just about every aspect of your health. In a nutshell, antioxidants are natures way of clearing free radicals – which are damaged molecules- from your cells. If they are not cleared, your cells and eventually the organs are like a fireplace that nobody bothers to clean the ashes out of- and the fire (that would be you) is eventually smothered.

This article talks briefly about how antioxidants in your diet can help protect against breast cancer Now, one of the biggest reason that we need to pay more attention to an adequate intake or supplementation of antioxidants is simply that the environment that we live in is – as a rule- not exactly what nature intended. We are surrounded with pollutants and toxins that our bodies were not designed to cope with and we consume processed foods and medications that are also alien substances. But, some of the problems have actually been around for a long time. Remember the phrase “as mad as a hatter?” The problem they faced was mercury toxicity, but one antioxidant – glutathione can protect against that.

Glutathione is a subject that I have and will continue to harp on – sorry but I think it’s important. To illustrate my point here’s something worth reading about why your heart needs glutathione

…..and finally, talking about the heart. Blood sugar plays a major role in your cardiovascular health and what you eat, and the glycemic index of what you eat is important for your health.

Lorraine Craymer