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Full Health Nutrition
Nutritional Atherosclerosis Control©
Unclog Your Arteries Without Surgery
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Free-Radical Scavenging System
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As our cardiosvascular system is highly susceptible to free radical damage, antioxidants are of incredible help here. By neutralizing and "mopping up" free radicals in the body, antioxidants play a key role in slowing down the process of atheromatous plaque formation.
Our body has a whole, built-in, internal free-radical scavenging system, consisting of such powerful antioxidants as:
- uric acid (in aqueous solutions)
- an enzyme SOD (superoxide dismutase), activated by zinc, copper and manganese; and
- glutathione peroxidase, an enzyme activated by selenium. (In addition to selenium, glutathione peroxidase requires the presence of other nutrients, such as L-glycine, L-cysteine, lipoic acid, methionine, and glutamic acid; deficiencies of these nutrients can reduce the activity of glutathione peroxidase).
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Antioxidant Protection
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Due to a close relation between free radical activity and protective function of antioxidants and atherosclerosis, it's said that this degenerative disease can be:
- caused by the absence or deficiency of antioxidants in the body
- prevented by their regular presence in sufficient amounts, and
- reversed by their optimal or optimized supply through specific supplementation.
For example, the existing research indicates that if enough antioxidant protection is available, it will prevent the oxidation of cholesterol from free radicals. Only cholesterol in its oxidized form becomes a risk factor for atherosclerosis - taken up into the arteries, it contributes to the atheromatous plaque formation (Mol Cell Biochem 1992 111;41-7).
Many studies have provided sufficient evidence, documenting the essential role of antioxidants in the fundamental functions of the body, such as growth, maintenance of health, and metabolism. In light of these studies, many existing official "standards" need to be re-evaluated such as:
- Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) and Daily Value (DV) of nutrients
- the concept of prevention of diseases induced by vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and
- the view of optimal levels of nutrients and their role in controlling degenerative diseases, such as atherosclerosis.
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Nutritional Antioxidants
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Because of a variety of fundamental bodily functions, all antioxidants - including antioxidant nutrients - are specifically interrelated. Therefore, because of their crucial role, they all must be constantly present in the body.
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Antioxidants are essential for life as our protectors against free radical damage.
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However, taken alone, antioxidatants are much less effective; they can even produce... adverse effects.
Vitamin C
For example, a nutritional antioxidant, such as vitamin C (ascorbate), is of incredible importance here beacuse of its fundamental role in protecting our body against vicious free hydroxy radicals.
Vitamin C can also react effectively, in aqueous solutions such as blood, with free radical oxidants prior to their initiation of oxidative damage to lipids, especially to those within lipoproteins or cell membranes. It simply provides a means to carry the antioxidized free radicals out of the body.
Vitamin E
Without the removal of these lipid free radicals, alterations in membrane integrity, potential, and fluidity may occur, with possible membrane rupture and cell death. Here another antioxidant nutrient, vitamin E, is a big help.
Niacin
Niacin (B3) is another vitamin, which interacts with other nutrients in order to regenerate their antioxidant properties.
Carotenoids
Other antioxidant nutrients, such as carotenoids (beta-carotene, lycopene, etc.) possess the ability to react with and inactivate free-radical reactions, either in solution or in membrane systems.
Free radical-induced changes can lead to mutations, even breakages or injuries to the body's cells, which, if not repaired, may result in a variety of serious diseases.
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Nutritional Supplementation
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The risk for the endothelial injury induced by free radicals has been strongly correlated with low intake and/or low nutritional status of antioxidants, such as:
- vitamin A
- vitamin C
- beta-carotene (and other carotenoids)
- selenium, and many others (Mol Cell Biochem 1992 111;41-7).
Therefore, optimum supplementation helps to boost the body chemistry, helping the cells to
- receive more vital nutrients - nourishment needed for their optimal function (and survival), and
- undergo the ongoing process of detoxification - an essential factor in preventing and fighting all health problems.
Nutrients, naturally occurring substances, not drugs whose substances are foreign to the body, is able to boost the body chemistry by:
- correcting possible deficiencies and/or imbalances, and
- providing optimum conditions for the proper functioning of the body's own intrinsic ability to heal itself.
This is especially important for those, who have a family history of diabetes, heart disease or stroke due to atherosclerosis.
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© 1998-2004 Atherosclerosis Controlled Nutritionally At 40+. Arterial Cleansing Formula - Reverse Atherosclerosis Without Drugs or Surgery. All rights reserved worldwide. This document may not be copied in part or full without express written permission from the publisher. The information on atherosclerosis and nutrition provided herein is a general overview on this topic and may not apply to everyone, therefore, it should not be used for diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. While reasonable effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information atherosclerosis, Full-Health.com assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from use of the information herein.
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