Careening Radicals Are Bouncing Around

Written by Lena Sanchez


Careening Radicals Are Bouncing Around Or Cancer In The Making! © By Lena Sanchez

Those careening free-radicals are causing billions of dollars a year in health care! Are you next?

Free-radicals careen around wildly like unguided missiles, damaging everything they touch and causing a chain reaction of trauma. It is now well established that free radicals are a critical factor in most health problems, including hardening ofrepparttar arteries, which can lead to conditions involvingrepparttar 115617 heart, eyes and bone/joint health (Knight 1995) & (Cures, Robert Willix, M.D. 1994)

A most interesting fact about free radicals is that they causerepparttar 115618 same reactions within cells that occur during exposure to radiation, andrepparttar 115619 results of these reactions are indistinguishable from those of natural aging (Riley 1994). Consequently, it has been suggested that certain compounds known to protect against radiation damage also would be useful antioxidants and may even be beneficial for increasing life span.

Free radicals are even suspect to be an important mechanism of aging;repparttar 115620 more of them that are running amok,repparttar 115621 greaterrepparttar 115622 vulnerability of healthy cells. However, there's a way to take back your power, uprepparttar 115623 odds in your favor and defeat this deadly force.

Free radicals are not always harmful; they're used by repparttar 115624 immune system to destroy many invading microorganisms. In bone and joint problemsrepparttar 115625 body's own antibodies begin to attackrepparttar 115626 joints, causing cellular damage, as they are unleashed byrepparttar 115627 body upon itself (Barber 1994).

But free radicals tend to react with cellular DNA, often causingrepparttar 115628 DNA strand to actually break. There is also strong evidence that FREE RADICALS may not only initiate DNA mutations, but also encourage damaged cells to multiply.

Scientist, Dr. Denham Harman, M.D. PhD founder of Free Radical Theory of Aging feels thatrepparttar 115629 free radical reactions play a significant role inrepparttar 115630 age-related deterioration ofrepparttar 115631 cardiovascular and central nervous systems. Free radical reactions also may be significantly involved inrepparttar 115632 formation ofrepparttar 115633 neuritic plaques associated with senile dementia ofrepparttar 115634 Alzheimer type. In studies, these plaques were more prevalent in senile people than in those who were not senile. Studies are ongoing in that department.

Oxygen free radicals released in our bodies also destroyrepparttar 115635 proteins that are essential constituents ofrepparttar 115636 body, regulate our hormones and enzymes and compose our nerves, muscles, skin and hair. In other words, those wrinkles that we fear are alsorepparttar 115637 dirty work of oxygen free radicals. Created by both internal consumption of processed foods and external use of chemical laden products on our body.

Vitamins and Minerals Good or Bad

Written by Martin Davison


Hello again

Unfortunately, this is long email - probablyrepparttar longest we have ever done, but afterrepparttar 115616 critical report regarding vitamins and minerals fromrepparttar 115617 Food Standards Agency that was printed in The Times,repparttar 115618 newspaper has been doing a debate onrepparttar 115619 issue, as they were inundated with letters.

From our own point of view, a letter that was sent in by a Doctor really puts things into perspective and felt a need to share this and other points with you..

"Asrepparttar 115620 senior partner in an NHS general practise, I am very disturbed atrepparttar 115621 recent publicising of information purporting to showrepparttar 115622 dangers of nutritional supplements.

I would like to point out that nutritional supplements are generally a great deal safer than prescribed drugs. Their dangers have been grossly and, I fear, wilfully exaggerated for commercial reasons.

There is overwhelming evidence that our current Western diet does not give us adequate nutrition and that we need to take active steps to protect ourselves fromrepparttar 115623 damaging effects of environmental toxins.

Both of these major health problems can be significantly reduced by appropriate use of nutritional supplements, including minerals, vitamins and antioxidants."

Dr Stephen Brooke, Swindon, Wiltshire

Well, we definitely agree with that, and let's face it, there were so many flaws withrepparttar 115624 report, that if like us, you read into things, we are sure you will agree that there does seem to be a hidden agenda forrepparttar 115625 large pharmaceuticals. But, if we are taking care of our own health, surely it would be better forrepparttar 115626 NHS?? Yet of course, they wouldn't earn as much inrepparttar 115627 drugs being prescribed - we know!

However, we thought you may like to see just a few (yes! Only some) research points and quotes on different nutrients that we have come across.

Evidence is constantly being provided by ongoing research, that Antioxidants may have an important role inrepparttar 115628 prevention of some ofrepparttar 115629 most degenerative diseases inrepparttar 115630 world today, for example, arthritis, heart disease and cancer. References: A Good Health Guide "The Antioxidants", R A Passwater, PhD, 1985. A Good Health Guide "The New Superantioxidant - Plus", R A Passwater, PhD, 1992. Getting To The Heart Of It, Bill Davison, G W P Davison Pty Ltd, Australia, 1987. Heart Disease, Stroke, Oral and Intravenous Chelation Therapy, Dr K W Donsbach, 1993.

"patients with Angina and those at risk of heart disease, should be given supplementary vitamin E at a level, far higher than what we get from our dietary intake." Professor Morris Brown, Cambridge University, England

"we now have substantial evidence implicating Beta Carotene with low rates of breast and lung cancer as well as heart disease." Dr Meyskens, Clinical Cancer Centre, University of California. Annual Conference ofrepparttar 115631 Nutritional Society of Australia.

A clinical trial was conducted on men aged between 20-30 who smoked at least one pack of cigarettes per day. They were either given a placebo, or a vitamin c supplement inrepparttar 115632 form of ascorbic acid. After only one week there was a decrease of 81% inrepparttar 115633 blood-lead levels for those takingrepparttar 115634 nutritional supplement.

"in order to obtain identical results as supplements, one would have to consume up to 1.2kg of carrots per day. The reason for this, is that Beta Carotene is not always efficiently or consistently absorbed from food." Dr Phillip Gaffney, Research conducted by Brisbane Hospital, Australia.

"Inrepparttar 115635 future, we will not be able to rely any more on our premise thatrepparttar 115636 consumption of a varied balanced diet will provide allrepparttar 115637 essential trace elements, because such a diet will be very difficult to obtain for millions of people." As told to Congress in 1977 by Dr W Mertz, US Department of Agriculture.

"It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99 percent ofrepparttar 115638 American people are deficient in minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one ofrepparttar 115639 more important minerals actually results in disease. Any upset ofrepparttar 115640 balance, any considerable lack of one or another element, no matter how microscopicrepparttar 115641 body requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, and shorten our lives." Sentate Document No.264 ofrepparttar 115642 United States Congress, 2nd session, 1936.

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