What does a Super Antioxidant do for me anyway?
To begin its important that you firmly understand what an antioxidant is let alone a super antioxidant.An easy way to get your head around the way an antioxidant works in your body is this; Imagine you have two opposing sides at war with each other. We will label the good guys as Antioxidants and the bad guys are called free radicals.It is actually pretty obvious that when the bad guys attack, if they have more soldiers than you do they might win the fight. But if you have enough good guys to combat them then you win the fight for another day.Usually it’s mano e mano (man on man) or one on one. In other words, if you have one bad free radical that makes his way into your body you would need at least one antioxidant (good guy) to fight him and remove him from the system.
So, then if you don’t supply enough soldiers to take the bad guys out one on one then they overwhelm your soldiers and the result is they start tearing you apart at the cellular level. Which is quite obviously a very bad thing. This process of tearing you down is called oxidation and its somewhat chemically similar to the way metal rusts through oxidation as well.Now on the other hand, if your able to bring in some of the big boys “the super antioxidant” if you will. Then the rules change a quite a bit in your favor. The really powerful Super Antioxidants can neutralize several free radicals at once.
They also have a tremendous amount of antioxidants packed into a very small amount of space. This is how they rate so high on the charts that rate antioxidants and tell you which ones are the strongest and therefore have the greatest amount of firepower to be able to defeat the bad guys army.
The chart that you will see most commonly used to rate the effectiveness of all antioxidants is called an ORAC chart. Which stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. And just simply indicates how many bad guys can you good guys absorb, neutralize and remove from the body before your life expectancy is gone or used up.The higher the rating on the ORAC chart the more volume of bad guys this particular antioxidant can fight and defeat for you.The way an antioxidant gets to where the crown of super antioxidant is when it is able to beat out its competitors on the chart and rank amongst the very few top antioxidants ever tested. There is no set number such as only the top 5% or 10% can be called a super antioxidant but it’s a pretty safe bet that when you find one with an ORAC above 100,000 units or more then you likely have a winner that you should consider using to help you win the war long term.
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