How Antioxidants Work?
Antioxidants are our body compounds responsible for protecting our immune system while fighting against problems that are created by poor diet, toxins, environmental pollutants, stress and aging. All these problems come in the form of free radicals. They’re nothing but unstable molecules inside the body which is due to the effects of oxidation and causes cellular damage. Therefore, we need to control them. Anti-oxidants protect us from the over-production of free radicals. Abundance of free radicals causes several issues in health like immune deficiency, cancer hepatitis, premature aging, osteoarthritis, cirrhosis of the liver and other problems. Antioxidants are the ones stabilizing the free radicals by providing them with missing oxygen molecules, making the chain of free radicals broken and the oxidation process stop.
Antioxidants such as Vitamin E, Vitamin C and beta carotene helps in stabilizing free radicals. However, other antioxidants with enzymes such as catalase and glutathione work in slightly different manner. Antioxidant enzyme lowers the speed at which the link of the free radicals is established. Antioxidants with enzymes stop the oxidation process completely by the moment that the free radicals that which already formed are established.
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