ARE ANTIOXIDANTS THE NEW FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH?

Antioxidants have become a need-to-know 21st century buzz term because of their remarkable health-promoting powers. They nurture, protect, revitalize, and rejuvenate all of your body’s one hundred trillion cells.

Best of all, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to load-up on these wonder nutrients every day of your life. Thanks to Mother Nature, antioxidants are abundant in many natural foods, particularly fruits and vegetables. Furthermore, when they are consumed on a regular basis as part of a healthy diet, they’re reputed to have incredible anti-aging benefits. Some health experts claim they can — in some instances — even reverse the aging process. At the very least, their anti-aging powers will help keep your skin taut and well-supported by strong underlying muscle tone.

The diversity of vitamins and minerals in antioxidants are also immune system boosters. They fortify your body’s first line of defense against viral and bacterial illnesses, as well as a wide range of degenerative diseases and other ailments. Not only are they effective in a preventative capacity, but also can aid your recovery from whatever ails you, including injuries.

These fountain-of-youth natural food ingredients also combat invisible inflammation inside your body, which is a very common pro-aging condition. Antioxidants accomplish this by helping to cleanse your insides of harmful internal irritants known as ‘free radicals’. And this is a bigger deal than you may think because these instigators of cellular-level inflammation can lead to the onset of numerous age-related degenerative diseases. 

Moreover, we’re under constant assault from free radicals, which can easily multiply in your body in response to external factors.

For instance, your exposure to any of the following stimuli can act as a promoter for an abundance of free radicals inside you:

• Pollutants in the air
• Cigarette smoke
• Chemically-tainted drinking water
• Pesticide and herbicide residues in our food
• Toxic industrial chemicals
• Low-level radiation exposure
• Excessive alcohol
• Deep-fried foods
• Trans fats
• The sun’s ultraviolet (UV) light rays

Unfortunately, free radicals are unavoidable, even if you live in a tropical paradise far away from civilization. That’s because your body is programmed to produce small amounts of free radicals on a daily basis, regardless of how healthy you are. Simply stated, they’re merely generated as a natural by-product of your body’s use of oxygen to generate energy.

So even if antioxidants are not exactly the “fountain of youth” with all of the health benefits behind them, why wouldn’t you want to add more of them into your diet?

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