It’s said, “oxidative stress causes disease…. so what is oxidative stress a short answer would be when you halve an apple…. when it’s exposed to oxygen and turns brown that’s oxidative stress.” While adding an antioxidant such as lemon and prevents oxidation that’s what this blog is all about. Inside the body, damage like this from ” free radicals” can be detrimental and harmful (so allow antioxidants to be your prevention).
Free Radicals are continuously generated within the mammalian cells, while this being a consequence of the use of oxygen in aerobic respiration. Free radicals are extremely powerful & dangerous DNA damaging agents while antioxidants are substances that prevent damage to cells caused by free radicals.
Free radicals are molecules that have lost an electron, thereby becoming unstable. These free radicals basicly steal electrons from other molecules in effort to heal themselves, while ultimately creating NEW free radicals in the process. By these stealing electrons, they create damage DNA leading to the possible development of cancer and cause us to seek a good ophthalmologist as we age for cataract surgery.
Free radicals are formed from a number of causes (cigarette smoke, pollution and exposure to sunlight are all just a few examples of the formation of free radicals). Antioxidants search for these free radicals and lend them electrons, thereby, stabilizing the molecule, therefore preventing damage to other cells. Antioxidants turn free radicals into waste by – product and then eventually eliminate them from the body.