Why Do I Need Antioxidants?

 

Everyone needs antioxidants to help prevent damage to their body. (If you have not read about free radicals on this site you may wish to read that first.) Free radicals are ubiquitous and are constantly attacking your body from the outside (sunlight, pollution, electromagnetic radiation, etc.), and due to normal metabolism and living—attacking you from the inside. Free radicals are unstable molecules that through chain reaction cause millions of free radicals that damage your proteins, cells, tissues, and organs. They cause aging, degenerative changes, inflammation and disease. They cut your lifespan short.

Antioxidants prevent damage by protecting the very proteins, cells, tissues, and organs that are targeted by free radicals. The antioxidants prevent or minimize damage. They have been scientifically proven to prevent dementia, blindness, heart disease, degenerative diseases and a variety of cancers.

Everyone should take antioxidants to optimize their health and longevity. What good is it to just live long if you are unhealthy? Today there is no reason why most people could not live to be 100 years old. More and more people are living to be 100. By the year 2020 it is estimated that there will be 1 million centenarians (people that are 100 or older). The important goal is not to arrive at age 100, but rather to arrive at age 100 enjoying life with all your abilities and facilities intact.

Antioxidants Prevent Aging

Antioxidants are proven to help prevent or halt the damage from aging. Free radicals attack your proteins, cells, tissues, and organs. They attack your genetic code. The damage causes degenerative changes that destroy tissue. The free radicals also cause inflammation. Everything starts to snowball and deteriorate. This is the reason people lose vision as they age. The free radical damage in the brain causes the blood brain barrier (specialized blood vessels that allow nutrients in and keep toxins out) to break down. Toxins and free radicals get access to brain tissue and cause damage and changes that lead to dementia. Cartilage breaks down and people suffer from arthritis pain and limited mobility.

Antioxidants help prevent this damage and improve brain function. They protect the blood brain barrier and keep the brain bathed in nutrients rather than toxins.

Antioxidants help prevent the aging process by strengthening your immune system as well.

Antioxidants Prevent Heart Disease

There have been numerous studies showing that antioxidants prevent heart disease. These studies have focused mainly on vitamin E, vitamin C, and beta-carotene. The feeling is that antioxidants prevent oxidative damage to cholesterol, which prevents the cholesterol from sticking to the vessel wall. Antioxidants prevent free radical damage or oxidative damage to the vessel and to the actual plaque that exists in your vessels.

In the past two years, some studies have called into question the heart benefits of antioxidants. These studies are problematic for several reasons. The HATS trial had very small numbers, which can lead to inaccurate results. Some of the studies used high dose beta-carotene when the consensus is now that high dose beta-carotene can actually function as a pro-oxidant and be damaging. Most importantly, all the negative studies did not use good vitamin E. In contrast, the Cambridge Heart Antioxidant Study used d-alpha Tocopheryl Sussinate Acid and showed a 70% reduction in heart disease. Any study which seeks to see the real benefits of vitamin E must use at least 400 IU of d-alpha Tocopheryl Sussinate Acid because it is the most potent and biologically active vitamin E. The studies should all include the sister tocopherols as there is synergistic benefit with the alpha Tocopheryl. DLUAF is designed like nature so includes these sister compounds.

Antioxidants Prevent A Variety Of Cancers

Free radicals have been proven to cause a variety of cancers. They do this by several mechanisms. One mechanism is that they damage genetic code. Your genetic code is your DNA, which is protein that is stored in the nucleus or brains of the cell. Free radicals attack the DNA and cause problems. Damaged DNA means that the cell has lost part of its brains. It will be unable to function like a normal cell. One of the functions of normal cells is to fix mistakes that can occur during replication of cells. This function could be lost when the DNA is damaged and the cell replicates a mutated cell. This mutated cell could replicate itself and eventually form a tumor. Another way damaged DNA causes cancer is that the cell directly gives rise to an abnormal cell when its DNA is damaged. There are whole books devoted to the various mechanisms by which free radicals induce cancer.

Antioxidants Are Proven To Help Prevent The Development Of Cancer.

Please view the java pop up screens on each DLUAF ingredient in the Formula page. Educate yourself on the different cancers that each antioxidant can help prevent. The cancer information is too extensive to place here, as it could fill an entire book. The important message is that specific antioxidants can prevent specific cancers and that the more and varied antioxidants you have, the better protection you will enjoy.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and an excellent example of how cancer can be prevented. Several antioxidants have been proven to help prevent prostate cancer in internationals studies and trials from leading universities, including Harvard, and Johns’ Hopkins. These include vitamin E, lycopene, and selenium. Lycopene is the red pigment that comes from tomatoes, watermelon and other red fruits. It has powerful antioxidant effects and prevents prostate, endometrial, cervical, and pancreatic cancer.

Lycopene was found to be protective of prostate cancer by Harvard researchers. They discovered that the lycopene had to be processed or cooked. Men who ate 7 or more servings per week of processed tomatoes (pasta sauce) had a 34% reduced incidence of prostate cancer. An important concept here is that you need the lycopene in a form you can absorb. Eating a raw tomato is not helpful; the cell wall must be mashed so the lycopene is accessible. This is also an example of how a supplement can provide better access to the desired plant compound than a natural vegetable.

Vitamin E was found to be protective for prostate cancer in several studies. Researchers and Johns’ Hopkins found that the gamma-tocopherol was much more protective than the alpha-tocopherol. This is important as the majority of vitamin E supplements available contain only alpha-tocopheryl. DLUAF was designed like nature and contains the important sister compound gamma- tocopherol.

 

A variety of antioxidants have been proven to prevent a variety of cancers. This is the reason that diversity of antioxidants is so important.

 

Antioxidants Prevent Blindness

Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness as one ages. Several studies have shown that various antioxidants can help prevent macular degeneration from ever occurring, and can halt the progression when it does exist.

The Age-Related Eye Diseases Studies AREDS 12/2001 confirmed that daily use of vitamin C, E, beta-carotene, and zinc slowed progression in people with moderate to advanced macular degeneration.

Dr. Levine’s Ultimate Antioxidant Formula ™ provides ultimate antioxidant protection against this and other types of blindness. DLUAF is complete protection. The AREDS study did not even look at Lutein and Zeaxanthin- carotinoids that were proven in several previous studies to be the two strongest supplements to combat age-related macular degeneration.

DLUAF offers the most comprehensive vision protection. It contains the vitamin C, E, beta- carotene, and zinc found in the AREDS study. It also contains Lutein and Zeaxanthin as well as Bilberry (cousin of the blueberry-which is well known for its vision benefits). Bilberry contains Anthocyanidins – strong plant compounds that protect cells and prevent oxidation. DLUAF also contains multi-Anthocyanidins from a variety of berries that further protect your vision. In addition, DLUAF also contains alpha- Lipoic Acid which can regenerate spent vitamin C and E to further protect macular cells. And finally, DLUAF contains Lycopene, which is protective against macular degeneration. There is no better or more comprehensive formula to protect your vision.

Researchers agree that cataracts are caused by oxidative damage and they believe that antioxidants can help prevent cataract formation and/or progression. UV radiation (free radicals) increases your risk of cataracts.

Several previous studies found Lutein and Zeaxanthin are the two strongest plant compounds that prevent macular degeneration.

Antioxidants Strengthen The Immune System

Researchers agree that several different antioxidants improve and protect the immune system. This is one of the means by which antioxidants prevent cancer. By strengthening the immune system, cancer is prevented. If you have cancer, strengthening the immune system allows your body to fight cancer and a strengthened immune system can even kill cancer completely.

Cervical cancer represents a good example of how a virus can cause cancer. Human papillomavirus infection of the cervix leads to cervical cancer. Not every woman whose cervix is in contact with the papilloma virus gets infected and not every infected cervix develops cervical cancer. Some women have stronger immune systems and prevent the initial infection by the virus. Other women who get infected may fight off the papilloma virus and prevent it from developing into cervical cancer. Strengthening the immune system can prevent infection by the virus in the first place. Cryptoxanthin is a sister carotinoid found in nature with beta-carotene. High blood levels of Cryptoxanthin can prevent cervical cancer. DLUAF contains this unique carotinoid.

The benefits of antioxidants are too numerous to list here and the list grows weekly. New benefits of various antioxidants are being discovered daily. Large books are written on the subject. This website is not meant to be an encyclopedia of information, but rather an educational site to introduce you to useful information that will stimulate you to think about your health.

 

Everyone needs antioxidants to protect and improve their health. Antioxidants can help you live longer and healthier. They can increase your energy and help slow or even halt the aging process. Antioxidants are diverse compounds that include vitamins, herbs, botanicals, minerals and coenzymes. Forget a multivitamin. If you want to optimize your health, you want to take antioxidants. Dr. Levine’s Ultimate Antioxidant Formula provides the most diverse selection of health enhancing antioxidants available. Maximal antioxidant diversity means Optimal health benefits.

Order Dr. Levine’s Antioxidant Formula today and begin enjoying better health tomorrow!

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