Why your dog's food needs more antioxidants
Fighting Free Radicals With Diet Teddy Brigham Conventional medicine considers disease and a decline in health as a natural process of aging. Advocates of natural health care view this decline over time as the accumulation of toxins and chronic disease, not as an accepted byproduct of aging itself. Oxidation As oxygen interacts with the body’s cells, oxidation occurs. While this is a natural process and the body metabolizes oxygen well, 1% to 2% of its cells will become damaged by that oxygen and become free radicals. Free radicals are damaged cells. They are missing a critical molecule and they then seek out to replace that molecule from other cells very aggressively. When free radicals rob other cells of their molecules, they damage the DNA in that cell and this creates the basis for disease. When a cell’s DNA is changed, the cell becomes mutated: it grows and reproduces abnormally and quickly. Generally, the body has a good defense against free radicals and they are controlled ...