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Cellgevity, Antioxidant Foods and Heart Disease

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Cardiovascular   illness isn’t caused by one cause and so it’s not accurate to say that one answer will work for everyone.  And in fact, some circumstances could be completely out of your control. But, it’s still a good concept to made whatever improvements you can to help your health . For one thing – we know that oxyradical damage to the cells can build up and left untreated lead to damaging the heart and cardiovascular system.  Science has demonstrated that antioxidants can destroy free radicals and stop that damage. So, will taking antioxidant supplements  combat heart disease?

Up until now, no one is certain . Antioxidant vitamin E supplements , for one , haven’t been shown to reduce the likelihood of stroke, heart disease, or other cardiovascular problems . While the supplement may contain antioxidants, they don’t seem to help.

Antioxidants are also available from beta carotene supplements , but doctors agree  excessive amounts of beta carotene is not a good thing . It can instead cause an increase  in cardiovascular and other heart issues and diseases So mega dosing beta carotene in order to inject anti oxidants into your body to combat heart and/or cardiovascular issues is -you’ll agree- a lousy idea.

The best route appears to stem from consuming foods rich in antioxidants.

Fruits, whole grain foods and vegetables that contain antioxidants have been proven to decrease the likelihood of heart disease.  To help lower your risk of cardiovascular diseases, you might need to modify your diet to include some of the most richly concentrated antioxidant foods like – dried beans – red, kidney and pinto ; wild blueberries; other berries like cultivated blueberries, cranberries and raspberries . There are more , but just how hard is it to add dried beans and berries to your diet?

Natural antioxidants are the best start and another natural antioxidant is  L-glutathione which is produced in the body.  As the Master Antioxidant, glutathione should be considered as another tool in your heart disease protection arsenal . Too bad that it’s not all that well absorbed in the form of an oral antioxidant supplement .  A better idea is to supplement with  a glutathione precursor like Cellgevity from Max International.

And if you really want to help your heart by boosting your level of antioxidants – stop smoking. (Hardly much of a news flash, is it?) Smoking has been conclusively connected to the introduction of free radicals, so you’ll need to take even more antioxidants just to make up for the smoking. While you’re at it – watch your blood pressure, eat foods high in fiber and other nutrients, and exercise regularly .

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Cellgevity is Not a Glutathione Supplement

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there are many different antioxidant supplements on the market and without any question, antioxidants a critically important to your health but what shoudl you do when you find that the most important antioxidant – Glutathine – doesn’t work as an  oral supplement?

Tell Me About Glutathione .

Glutathione is an antioxidant that is manufactured in your body . Technically, it’s a tri-peptide of the amino acids glutamine or glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine and found in every cell of our body. That means it’s immediately available where it will be needed – one of glutathiones many special attributes.  But Glutathione is really a lot more than that.

It’s known as   the Master Antioxidant and lacking it , better known but not as important antioxidants, such as Vitamins C and E which are the most abundant fat and water soluble antioxidants that we use won’t work to their maximum ability . As well , Glutathione is used in the repair of DNA, supports the immune system and the detoxification of toxins from air and water pollution, along with many carcinogens and cigarette smoke . You liver loves glutathione.

Adding to your serum levels of Glutathione is an important health improvement .  Research has repeatedly shown that some of the most infamous conditions connected to aging , like Osteoporosis, Type II Diabetes and High Blood Pressure are clearly accompanied with a fall in Glutathione levels.

As we pass our twenties (and could use the help !) our body doesn’t produce as much Glutathione. This is why many thoughtful and health conscious people are buying   glutathione supplements.  But a supplement is not the way to go .  To increase your Glutathione levels, don’t rely on glutathione supplements.

But there are a lot of alternatives   available if you choose to raise your level of glutathione and one option is diet .  Why not choose 4-5 servings a day of the right vegetables and fruits like broccoli, asparagus, spinach and avocado . Healthy food choices will help provide your body with more of whatit needs to produce its own glutathione.  Other natural sources of the raw materials to help accelerate your Glutathione production include Milk Thistle, Whey Protein, Selenium and Turmeric.

The second option available is to take glutathione precursors, which are products with the nutrients your body uses in order to boost its own natural production and over come one of the downsides of aging. Cellgevity from Max International is one product you can try.

Free Radicals are not Political

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The older you get, the more you should care about the Free Radical Theory of Aging . If you’ve never heard of free radicals, I can assure you that they are not politically motivated, but are quite distructive never the less. Free radicals  are unstable or damaged molecules that will steal an electron from another nearby molecule in order to restablize themselves. But, when they do that they make a new unstable molecule and the cycle repeats – creating a chain reaction that damages the organ systems in your body as deep as the cellular level.

Just check out the wrinkles on a 50+ sunbather if you doubt the impact of cellular damage on aging . with the skin we can see a visible change . We cannot see the brain, liver or heart .  But arteries get stopped – with cellular junk – and joints turn swollen with chronic inflammation- which is directly caused by free radicals.

But at least there is some help. Antioxidants are nature’s answer to free radicals . Antioxidants are molecules that are capable of donating an electron to a free radical without becoming unstable themselves. They halt the chain reaction and prevent the damage.

But,  where do free radicals come from ? There are two main sources of free radicals – one source is the outside environment – think of pollution and cigarette smoke and all the chemicals and toxins we regularly ingest . The other source of free radicals is us .   There are four separate ways that our bodies make free radicals – oxidants.

Daily metabolism – I’ll keep the long scientific words out of this account because they’re just too hard to spell. But let’s just say that our body, uses oxygen as fuel and converts it to water. In the process, the oxygen molecule is not completely and cleanly utilised. There are by-products called oxy-radicals- our own version of nuclear waste- So that’s one – huge source of free radicals.

Oxidants are not all bad, we use them to fight chronic infections, bacteria and parasites. Unfortunately, nearby cells are exposed to free radical damage . Too bad that we can get burned when we fight fire with fire . We also produce hydrogen peroxide- another free radical version of oxygen – when we metabolize some fatty acids.

These processes go on every day and are happening in millions of cells at once . It’s not surprising that antioxidant supplements are so popular and a great piece of news that our body also produces some superb antioxidants like glutathione and CoEnzymeQ10 to help us deal with them.

In a final irony , an enzyme called cytochrome P450 is used by our bodies to defend against toxins like drugs, other foreign chemicals and pesticides. In the process of creating this enzyme, our body will also produce free radicals. In a way, this makes the external toxins doubly damaging.

If you’re interested in helping your body combat the aging effects of free radicals, you need to support your supply of antioxidants. Some antioxidants, like Vitamins C and E can be supplemented and unquestionably a healthy diet is very important. Other antioxidants like Glutathione cannot be supplied as an oral  supplement although you can provide your body with the precursors -raw materials- to produce it yourself. One such product is Cellgevity, the Glutathione precursor from Max International.

Cellgevity – More than and Antioxidant Supplement

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the Most health conscious people pay attention to antioxidants and buy antioxidant supplements for one easy reason. they don’t want to feel any older than they have to and choose to enjoy what antioxidants can do for their health . Often though, they might not do everything they want .

What’s the scoop with antioxidants

Antioxidants are the opposite of free radicals. To understand antioxidants , you need to understand how free radicals- rogue electrons- can hurt your health.

Your body is a complex system. It’s a bunch of organs, like your liver and kidneys and your brain , that each does a certain job . Each must perform their role for you to be truly healthy. Your organs are living tissue, composed of countless cells made up of molecules and their component atoms, each with their proper count of electrons. Atoms are tied together into molecules by sharing electrons , but they can become damaged and drop an electron. This produces a free radical and the atom missing an electron will “steal ” it from the closest source , which creates in its turn another unstable atom. What you end up with is a chain reaction that if left on its own , will hurt the cells within the organ tissue and will sooner or later damage the organ.

An antioxidant is a molecule that is able to donate an electron to stabilize a free radical . An antioxidant molecule will not morph into a free radical itself because it will either stay stable with the missing electron or it will be too weak to steal an electron from another atom. The chain reaction is halted . What’s important to understand – to appreciate the scale- is that, according to a well known scientist who studies antioxidants – by the name of Bruce Ames – a cell in your body will be attacked up to 10,000 times in a single day by free radicals. And there are trillions of cells in our bodies.

This onrush by free radicals contributes to (and some will say primarily causes) many of the acute and chronic diseases that we associate with aging. Alzheimers disease, acute and chronic inflammation, coronary disease, cancer, type II diabetes, Parkinsons disease, rheumatoid arthritis and some types of dementia can all be traced back to free radical damage. And thats not the total list.

I believe that it’s actually important to reduce your own production of free radicals, increase your antioxidants and making a decision to purchase antioxidant supplements is one thing you can consider . But it isn’t the whole picture. You should also:

1- Smarten up . It’s difficult to fix the damage when you’re still causing it, so this would be a good time to slow your production of free radicals and there are tons of things you can do to help. You can avoid smoking and smokey rooms , water and air pollution, junk food , substance abuse and even too much exercise.

2- Watch your diet . Eat morefruit and vegetables . Which ones? This list is long but think green foods and think blue foods. Think raw and fresh.

3- Buy antioxidants and antioxidant supplements. Supplements like Vitamins C and E, Resveratrol and Cordyceps are first-class examples of antioxidants supplements that are easy to buy . Do your homework because sources, quality and usability will vary widely, but you can add them as part of your plan.

4- Glutathione is the body’s Master Antioxidant, but not effective as an oral supplement . Oral glutathione supplements apparently won’t survive the digestive system to be absorbed into the bloodstream. Instead you can opt for a Glutathione precursor like Cellgevity. You can also help to support your body’s production of Glutathione by eating more asparagus and broccoli.

Glutathione is Regenerated by Vitamin C

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Fruits rich in vitamin CVitamin C is the most important and available water soluable antioxidant within the human body. Actually, vitamin C is almost a generic name for all compounds that exhibit the same biologic activity as AA. The fact that it is water soluable means that it can neutralize free radicals before the reach the cellular membrane. It’s importance was first recognized in 1747 when James Lind found that men could be cured of scurvy when given oranges and lemons. It was a lifesaving discovery.

The relationship between glutathione- the body’s master antioxidant and vitamin C is unique. Vitamin C converts glutathione back to the active form so that it may continue neutralizing free radicals and supporting cellular health. Once reduced, glutathione will regenerate vitamin C from its DHAA or oxidized state. This is one of the reasons that Vitamin C is an ingredient in Cellgevity– the newest glutathione precursor from Max International.

Vitamin C is stored in both the tissues and blood in our bodies. The adrenal and pituitary glands, and lens of the eye contain the highest concentrations of vitamin C within the body. It is one of the 13 essential vitamins although the term “Essential” is often misunderstood. What it actually means is that an essential vitamin is one that must be provided by our diet since we cannot manufacture it within the body.

Vitamin C is important for the production of collagen. It is also important in the formation of norepinephrine and serotonin. Ascorbic Acid may also have some anticlotting and blood flow improvement properties by stimulating the release within the body of Nitric Oxide, which is the most likely reason that Vitamin C is also an important ingredient in the supplement Pro-Argi9-Plus

Five Network AntiOxidants

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Human cell and network antioxidantsAntioxidants are our body’s most important defense against the damage triggered by free radicals which contribute to many chronic inflammatory and degenerative ailments. Free radicals are the underlying cause of premature aging. Of all the antioxidants, a family of five are acknowledged as Network Antioxidants. This team of both fat and water soluble antioxidants work together to assist your cells and function together to support each other.

When an antioxidant contributes an electron to clean a free radical, it actually becomes one, but a benign free radical without the ability to carry on the chain reaction.  Unfortunately, when they become oxidized, they’re also not able to operate effectively.  But, what is special about the network antioxidants is that are able to help to regenerate each other and carry on the routine of searching out and repairing free radicals.

Even though they function together, the network antioxidants fulfill distinct jobs.  The fat soluble ones, namely Vitamin E and CoQ-10 protect the fatty cell membrane and the cell mitochondria, while the water soluble antioxidants, Glutathione and Vitamin C protect the nucleus of the cell. ALA – Alpha Lipoic Acid is unique in that it is both fat and water soluble.

Vitamin C is the link which connects the fat soluble and water soluble antioxidants in the network and is largely responsible for rejuvenating Vitamin E when it becomes oxidized.

Vitamin E is closely connected with heart attack prevention, because it’s the only antioxidant that can reach fatty portions of the cell that are not accessible to the rest of the network.  It’s basically not a single compound but is instead a family of fat soluble alcohols.

CoQ-10 or CoEnzyme Q-10 is found in all your cells, where it is concentrated in the mitochondria,  the part of your cell that generates energy. Mitochondria are susceptible to free radical injury which has been evidenced as a loss of energy as we age. Additionally, CoQ-10 works in the regeneration of Vitamins E, C and Glutathione

Glutathione, very well regarded as the Body’s Master antioxidant is continuously circulating through your cells, repairing your immune cells and cleaning cellular waste from your body. It supports the rejuvenation of all of the remaining network antioxidants. Increasing your glutathione levels helps protect you from several inflammatory conditions, autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma and others.

Alpha Lipoic Acid is unique amongst the Network Antioxidants in that it is both fat and water soluable and can support both the fatty membrane and water based interior of your cells.  It is also uniquely capable of repairing itself and also can regenerate the other network antioxidants including glutathione. It helps to avoid muscle damage during strenuous workouts.

Like glutathione and CoEnzyme Q-10, ALA is made by your body, but the production capacity falls off significantly as we age.