Most of us have an increasingly hectic lifestyle, which makes meeting nutritional needs more and more difficult. Getting the recommended daily amount of fruits is vital to providing your body with potent antioxidants to counteract free radicals and prevent the damage they inevitably produce. Equally important is maintaining proper protein intake throughout the day to maintain optimal metabolic function. Everyday stress, environmental pollutants, natural metabolic processes and exercise generate different types of free radicals. Oxidation occurs when these unstable free radicals, in an attempt to gain stability, damage cells by stripping electrons away from properly functioning cellular components such as lipid membranes, DNA, RNA, and proteins. These transactions only transfer the instability to these components creating a new free radical and starting a chain reaction ….antioxidants are exceptional molecules that can effectively halt this destructive chain reaction.
