Benefits of Antioxidants

Antioxidants are substances or nutrients in our foods, which can prevent or slow the oxidative damage to our body. When our body cells use oxygen, they naturally produce free radicals (by-products), which can cause damage. Antioxidants act as "free radical scavengers" and hence prevent and repair damage done by these free radicals.  Antioxidants help your body function properly.  Free radical damage has been linked to many health problems including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.  Antioxidants have also been shown to enhance immune defense and therefore lower the risk of infection.

Why Are Antioxidants Important?

Studies have shown that antioxidants may offer the best protection your body has against damaging free radicals.

A free radical is an unstable molecule that steals an electron from a stable molecule in order to satisfy its need for repair. In doing so, this free radical destabilizes the stable molecule and creates another free radical in a vicious chain reaction of cellular destruction. A single free radical can cause damage to millions of other molecules in you body, preventing your body from functioning properly! This molecular destruction is continually occurring in your body!

Free radicals attack us from many different environmental sources every day. Some of which are: alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, harmful chemicals and additives in the foods we eat, sun bathing and pollutants in the air. They damage your cells, large enzyme complexes, Vitamin C, and DNA. After age 28, the major source of aging is the production of free radicals. And with age, the amount of free radicals we produce increases. Scientists have determined that very large amounts of free radicals accumulated in your body, may significantly shorten your life span.

The Importance of Antioxidants

Studies over the last 20 years have shown that free radical fighters found in a certain group of nutrients, namely antioxidants, can protect against a great many free radical initiated diseases. Antioxidants destroy free radicals.  Free radicals cause oxidation in the blood.  Once oxidation occurs, disease can result. Antioxidants keep free radicals from causing oxidation in the blood, thus neutralizing disease. 

Stress, chemical pollution, environmental pollution, and the normal aging process increase the demands put upon the immune system.  Studies indicate antioxidants do more than protect against free radicals; they also stimulate the immune system's response to help fight existing diseases.

Why livewell balanced?

livewell balanced provides the necessary nutrients that busy working mothers often lack.  Taking the daily recommended amount, you will know that your body is getting the support you need to maintain a healthy heart, strong bones, strong immune system, balanced hormones, and high energy levels.