A Good Health Guide by Safe Remedies, the Natural Remedies Clinic
and the Chiron Clinic London

ANTI OXIDANTS

Essentially, free radicals destroy tissue in search of electrons; antioxidants sacrifice themselves for body tissue by donating an electron to a free radical. Therefore, if your body is depleted of antioxidants, then you will have a chaotic event occur inside your body. The production of excess free radicals causes damage to the immune system, the nuclei of cells, blood vessel linkage, and cell membrane stability. This damage from free radicals can be seen as being directly related to the increase in cardiovascular disease, cancer, and auto-immune syndromes.

Carotene's like Beta Carotene has been shown to protect against a highly energized free radical form of oxygen called Super Oxide in addition to a broad spectrum of free radicals, Carotenes are your front line antioxidant defenders.

There are ever 600 toxic compounds found in the urban air. They all have the potential of introducing free radicals in the body. When you breath in air it does not all stay in the lungs. It is absorbed into the blood stream and circulated through the body. Carotenes are designed by nature to act as protector substances against the formation of free radicals. They also prevent already preformed free radicals from being absorbed from the outside environment that can damage the internal environment. Cartogene pigments work as free radical quenchers by squelching free radicals before they can harm the sensitive RNA messenger which replicates the DNA code signal which in turn creates our new cells.

A free radical is an atom or molecule, which possesses an unpaired electron and is therefore unstable. Each day, free radicals attack the DNA in a single cell about 1 0.000 times Free radicals attack cellular membranes sometimes causing severe damage They can cause red blood cells to burst by rupturing their cellular membranes Research has linked fret radical damage to premature aging and virtually every degenerative disease known. Nature has provided plants with this type of protective pigment (carotenes's) because the suffer radiation raises the potential of all the photosynthetic systems to produce extra electrons and too many electrons will kill the plants.

Taking anti oxidants is probably the best defense against disease there is. Prime Directive has a broad spectrum of anti oxidants including beta carotene.