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Welltrients Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™

Antioxidants: The Basics…

Antioxidants can reduce our likelihood of developing a multitude of these deadly diseases, including heart disease, arthritis, cancer, and can help slow the aging process. We know that all diseases are involved with cellular malfunction. Antioxidants protect the cellular functionality by neutralizing the potentially harmful agent called a “free radical”. In general, antioxidants are good for your health, and free radicals are bad. Dietary antioxidants are abundant in the colorful fruits and vegetables. This is only one of the three types of nutritional antioxidants we need.

Antioxidants Are important!

Dietary antioxidants help address both primary causes of cellular malfunction that are either from a “nutritional deficiency” or from cellular “toxicity”. As we age, we become more susceptible to develop degenerative diseases that are caused or aggravated by the lack of sufficient nutritional and antioxidant activity in the body. The degenerative disease process is NOT inevitable. This is why are body appears to age. The harmful actions cause by lack of antioxidants can be slowed down, delayed or even eliminated and the effects of these biochemical reactions can often be reversed, enabling us to feel better and healthier than we have in years.

Three Types of Antioxidants

Our bodies antioxidant pool comes from either the production at the cellular level of internal antioxidants “endogenous”, or from certain free nutrients that have antioxidant capacity “exogenous”. All antioxidants originate from our diet some used direct, some as building blocks and some as recyclers.

Our primary antioxidants are made by the body, thus internally provided. This internal antioxidant defense system includes Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), Catalase and Glutathione Peroxidase (Gpx), which are an important, line of defense against oxidative stress. These building blocks come indirectly from essential dietary components.

Dietary antioxidants are externally provided for a more direct source of dietary antioxidant activity, such as vitamins (vitamins A, C and E), minerals (selenium, zinc, copper and manganese) and other substances, including polyphenols found in grapes and green tea. These dietary antioxidants contribute to the antioxidant reserve, yet play a secondary role to the body�s own antioxidants.

Some dietary sources act as recycling of both the “endogenous” an the “exogenous” antioxidants in the body.

Free Radicals

Free radicals are the culprits in many diseases. In the cells of our tissues and organs, metabolic processes constantly occur, including oxygen metabolism. As oxygen and other compounds are broken down to be utilized by the body, molecules become unbalanced, creating “free radicals” or “oxidants”.

All antioxidants neutralize free radicals. But no single type of antioxidant can fully protect us against the many different types of free radicals. So a balanced team of nutrient rich antioxidants is the only answer to effectively help protect us against free-radical damage and from the different diseases associated with free radical damage. Read more about Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™.

Our Body Is Under Attack

“Free radicals can attack, damage, and ultimately destroy any material, not just the sensitive cells and tissues inside the body. Free radicals degrade collagen and reprogram DNA and are implicated in more than 60 diseases, including Alzheimer�s, Parkinson�s, cancer, arthritis, cataracts, kidney and liver disorders, etc.”

- Dr. Jeffrey Bland

The Role of Antioxidants

Antioxidants are vital in combating the free radicals that are constantly forming in our bodies due to oxidation. Free radicals damage the cells in our bodies, and an imbalance of free radicals causes oxidative stress which can cause grave disturbances in cellular metabolism. By curbing the activity of free radicals in our body, we can slow down the processes that cause disease and ageing, and live a longer, healthier life. Our bodies gain antioxidants from two sources: Our body’s in-house antioxidants “endogenous”, are superoxide dismutase, catalase glutathione and more.

Dietary antioxidants “exogenous” are direct sources from fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and more.

As we age our body’s defense system loses its effectiveness and we hold fewer antioxidants. Fewer free radicals are neutralized and there is a slow build-up of damaged molecules in the body. To reduce the free radical damage in our bodies, we need to add more antioxidants to our diets.

Daily Antioxidants Are Big News Items

I was the first formulator to describe and implement Antioxidants in full strength in 1994 when my Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™ formula was first introduced. I did not invent or discover antioxidants, but I did demonstrate first how a practical full strength synergistic antioxidant combination in a supplement could be made. Since then, numerous clinical studies have verified that the protection from antioxidants is unequivocal! Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™’s is a highly effective and complex blend of antioxidants help to fight the free radicals that cause damage to the cells in our bodies.

Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™ formula is a blend of special antioxidants including flavonoids, organic acids, esters and other naturally occurring dietary antioxidant compounds. This complex blend makes Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™ one of the most powerful and effective antioxidants available to combat free radical damage.

Researchers believe that dietary changes designed to decrease the rate of free radical reactions in the body can increase the span of healthy life by at least five years. Flavonoids like those in Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™ are antioxidant compounds found in plants. They are natural dietary disease-preventing, health-promoting substances.

- Dr. Bill

Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™ Ingredient Summary

Grape Seed Extract Contains rich sources of flavonoids (compounds found in plants) called Proanthocyanidins or OPCs that are powerful anti-oxidants, protecting blood vessels from damage.

Lipoic Acid Complex (R Lipoic, Alpha Lipoic) A vitamin-like substance and a potent anti-oxidant that enhances the effect of other anti-oxidants. It helps maintain levels of Glutathione, an important anti-oxidant. It regenerates damaged nerves. It is a neurological antioxidant that chelates free iron. It improves mitochondrial function (mitochondria are the energy-producing units of cells).

Alpha Lipoic Acid A vitamin-like substance and a potent anti-oxidant that enhances the effect of other anti-oxidants. It helps maintain levels of Glutathione, an important anti-oxidant. It regenerates damaged nerves. It is a neurological antioxidant that chelates free iron. It improves mitochondrial function (mitochondria are the energy-producing units of cells).

Lycopene The antioxidant lycopene is an open-chain unsaturated carotenoid found primarily in tomatoes and other plants that imparts the red color.

Vitamin C (Ascorbate) Vitamin C as an ascorbate is an essential nutrient required for metabolic reactions. Vitamin C is an effective antioxidant, an ascorbate peroxidase substrate, an enzyme cofactor for the biosynthesis of many biochemicals and an electron donor for enzymes. The active form of vitamin C is the ascorbate ion, a strong reducing agent that gets converted to its oxidized form, L-dehydroascorbate in the body by enzymes and glutathione. It is a weak sugar acid structurally related to glucose, which naturally occurs either attached to a hydrogen ion (ascorbic acid), or to a mineral ion (a mineral ascorbate). The biological halflife for vitamin C is about 30 minutes in blood plasma.

Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract (Ginkgo biloba) Ginkgo biloba one of the oldest living tree species works with two groups of active substances; the terpene lactones and the flavonoids including ginkgolides A, B, and C, bilobalide, quercetin and kaempferol.

Turmeric Root Extract (Curcuma longa) The deep yellow ground up dried root of the herb turmeric member of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae used in curries contains the active ingredient is is the polyphenol curcumin.

N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) Cysteine is a conditionally essential sulfur bearing amino acid, derived by the combination of methionine and pyridoxal 5 phosphate (vitamin B6). ��N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) is a derivative of L-cysteine wherein an acetyl group is attached to the nitrogen atom, and the precursor form to glutathione.

R Alpha Lipoic Acid A vitamin-like substance and a potent anti-oxidant that enhances the effect of other anti-oxidants. It helps maintain levels of Glutathione, an important anti-oxidant. It regenerates damaged nerves. It is a neurological antioxidant that chelates free iron. It improves mitochondrial function (mitochondria are the energy-producing units of cells).

Olive Leaf Extract (18.0% oleuropein) Olive Leaf Extract comes from the olive tree, a member of the evergreen family native to the Mediterranean region but grown around the world. The therapeutic benefits of olive leaf extract lie in the active ingredient oleuropein.

Grape Skin Extract Grape Skin extract a Resveratrol is a naturally occurring polyphenol derived from grapes, mulberries and peanuts that show a decrease in the activity of cytokines.

Zinc (Monomethionine) The second most occurring essential nutrient is zinc. Zinc is involved in about 3000 different protein complexes in the body.

CoenzymeQ10 Coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinone or CoQ10) is vitamin-like substance, an important antioxidant in both mitochondria and lipid membranes in all cells, and responsible for the production of the body’s own energy. In each cell food energy is converted into energy for our body in the mitochondria with the aid of CoQ10. Almost all our body’s energy requirements (ATP) is converted with the aid of CoQ10.

Copper (Glycinate Chelate) Copper is an essential nutrient found primarily in the bloodstream, as a co-factor in various enzymes, and in copper-based body pigments. Zinc and copper compete for absorption in the digestive tract so a dietary 10:1 balance must be maintained to prevent a deficiency.

Selenium (L-Selenomethioine) Selenium is an essential trace element which functions as cofactor for reduction of antioxidant enzymes such as glutathione peroxidases and thioredoxin reductase, and plays a role in cellular apoptosis.

Germanium (Amino Acid Chelate) The mineral Germanium is an essential element that raises the level of activity of various organs, enabling them to attract more oxygen. Germanium is responsible for providing more oxygen to the body as well as expelling harmful pollutants and pathogens or rendering them harmless.

Free Radicals Cause Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage

Oxidation takes place all around us and it occurs in our bodies too. Millions of chemical reactions involving oxidation take place in our bodies every second. The imbalance of free radicals causes oxidative stress, and oxidative stress can cause DNA and protein damage. Dietary antioxidants are able to protect our DNA from this damage.

Some free radicals and oxidative stress facts:

• Free radicals are unstable molecules that often contain oxygen. Free radicals are unstable because they have only one electron and they desperately want two to make them stable. To get another electron they rob one from anything they can. All healthy cells in our bodies are a good source for these electrons.
• The free radicals in our bodies quickly and relentlessly cause a lot of damage.
• Our DNA receives about 10,000 "hits" from free radicals per cell per day (Ames, 1993).
• An imbalance of free radicals in the body is called oxidative stress. Our cells can cope with small amounts of oxidative stress as they are quite ingenious and can repair minor free radical damage. However not all damage can be repaired and the unrepaired damage accumulates in the body.
• Major oxidative stress can cause grave disturbances in cell metabolism and contribute to human disease. Tissue damage and injury can lead to oxidative stress. Oxidative stress can cause DNA damage, lipid peroxidation, protein damage and ischaemic (lack of oxygen) injury.
• Our body constantly produces free radicals and other oxygen derived molecules (such as hydrogen peroxide). Our body has a relatively small reserve of antioxidant defense capacity. We continuously subject themselves to many substances and activities that increase the level of free radicals in their bodies, so the body can easily become overpopulated with oxygen-derived species that upset cell biochemistry.
• Some sources of free radicals include; metabolism by-products, macrophages and neutrophils, UV radiation, pollution, fatty foods, chemicals, cigarette smoke and exercise.

We Need Antioxidants

Many conditions have been linked to free radical damage and oxidative stress. Among the associated diseases and conditions linked to excess free radicals are:

• Aging
• Allergies
• Alzheimer’s
• ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
• Autoimmune diseases
• Cancers, including bladder, breast, cervical, colorectal, lung melanoma, ovarian/endometrial, prostate, stomach, upper aerodigestive tract
• Cardiovascular and coronary heart disease
• Cataracts
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Diabetes
• Diabetic Neutrophy
• Glaucoma
• Huntington’s Disease
• Macular Degeneration
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Pancreatitis
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Rheumatoid Arthritis and other inflammatory conditions
• Schizophrenia
• Stroke

Anyone at risk for developing these diseases or has a family history of any one of them, the antioxidant supplementation may be the edge that helps prevent or reduce the severity of, or even delay the appearance of these and many other diseases.

Flavonoids Are One of the Key Components

Flavonoids are antioxidant compounds found in plants, and are natural dietary disease-preventing, health-promoting, anti-ageing substances. Studies have proven that our normal intake of flavonoids through eating a range of fruits and vegetables is not enough to keep modern levels of free radicals at bay.

Flavonoids are some of the most powerful and effective antioxidant compounds available to humans - and since we are unable to produce flavonoids ourselves, we must get them from our foods.

Grape Seed Extract contain more flavonoid compounds than from any other plant. Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™, with its potent with 150 mg of Grape Seed Extract , is one of the most effective ways in which we can gain the amounts of flavonoids we need to protect our health.

Most antioxidants found in multivitamins, vitamin C and vitamin E supplements contain very few or no flavonoids, and Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™’s complex mix of flavonoid compounds outstrips all other antioxidants.

Flavonoids Are More Than Just an Antioxidant

Flavonoids are diverse both in their characteristics and chemical structures. More than 4000 flavonoids have been identified and some say there could be as many as 40,000 in plants. Our well-balanced Triple Strength Anti-Oxidant™s include extracts that reflect the full spectrum of flavonoid compounds, especially proanthocyanidins, across all molecular weights. The antioxidant activity of plant flavonoids have a wide range of other biological effects. Flavonoids from many plant sources have been used throughout the world as medical treatments for many ailments and disorders. All plant extracts are made up of many compounds. The biological evolution of each plant distinguishes it from every other plant. Since all plant materials are not equal with very complex compounds, each plant delivers it’s own unique flavonoid signature. It is the sum of these flavonoid signatures that maximize the return of antioxidant activity and nutritional benefits.

Flavonoid Studies

Research into flavonoids as antioxidants has dramatically increased over the past two decades. The flavonoids appeared in the spotlight first in the 1930’s, when Szent-Györgyi and his colleagues extracted two flavonoids from citrus fruit. They investigated the effects of the flavonoids and found they decreased the fragility and permeability of people’s capillaries. This is why flavonoids were then called "vitamin P" - for permeability. This maybe have been the first study done on the effects of flavonoids, but the work was not duplicated and the claim that flavonoids were a vitamin was dropped in the 1950s.

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