Everybody has heard of vitamin C also known asascorbic acid (AA) and dehydroascorbic DHAA in its oxidized form. Basically, vitamin C is pretty much a generic name for all compounds that have the same biologic activity as Ascorbic acid . It’s importance was originally recognized in 1747 when James Lind found that men could be cured of scurvy if provided oranges and lemons. It was a lifesaving breakthrough for sailors and the phrase Limey’s was easily adopted referring to the sailors in His Majesty’s Royal Navy.

Vitamin C is the most crucial and available water soluable antioxidant within the human body . Its water solubility means that it can scavenge free radicals before they reach the cellular shell. The relationship between Ascorbic Acid and glutathione- the body’s master antioxidant is unique. Vitamin C reduces glutathione back to the active form. Once reduced, glutathione will revitalize vitamin C from its DHAA or oxidized state. This why Vitamin C is an ingredient in Cellgevity Vitamin C is essential for the manufacturing of collagen. It is also needed in the development of norepinephrine and serotonin. Ascorbic Acid may also have some anticlotting and blood flow advancement attributes by stimulating the release within the body of Nitric Oxide, and that’s why Vitamin C is also a key ingredient in the supplement Pro-Argi9-Plus

Vitamin C is held in both the tissues and blood in our bodies. The adrenal and pituitary glands, and lens of the eye comprise the highest concentrations of vitamin C within the body. It is one of the 13 essential vitamins. Despite the fact that the phrase “Essential” is often mis-used. What it really means is that an essential vitamin is one that must be provided by our food since we are not able to manufacture it within the body.

Like glutatione alpha lipoic acid (ALA)is to be found in every cell in your body. It’s an antioxidant that helps your cells convert glucose into energy. ALA works – is soluable, in both water and fat so it can work anywhere in your body unlike antioxidants like Vitamin C or vitamin E which only work in water and fat respectively. Like other antioxidants, ALA helps clean free radicals – your body’s metabolic trash – from the cells which prevents them from becoming cluttered and toxic from a build up of waste. Alpha lipoic Acid has the ability to help to regenerate other antioxidants once they have collected the stray electrons and through the regeneration process renders them able to continue to neutralize more free radicals. this ability to regenerate other antioxidants, while not completely unique, it extremely valuable.

ALA is also used as an abbreviation for Alpha Linolenic Acid which is an omega-3 fatty acid, connected with heart health, but this is a different substance from Alpha lipoic acid – also referred to as Lipoic Acid.

Several studies have indicated that ALA may be able to help reduce levels of blood sugar and combined with it’s antioxidant properties, ALA might be helpful to people suffering from diabetic peripheral neuropathy, relieving some of the discomfort caused by nerve damage.

Researchers are studying alpha lipoic acid to determine its effectiveness against glaucoma although the are yet to collect sufficient data, but because it can pass easilt to the brain, it is possible that ALA might be useful as a protector against brain and nerve tissue damage. it is currently being studied as a possible treatment for stroke and other brain problems with root causes based on free radical damage. Dementia is one such condition.

ALA is one of the ingredients in MaxGXL and it’s also one of the ingredients in Max International’s newest glutathione support product – Cellgevity. It works with your body’s glutathione and as a powerful antioxidant, fights the root causes of premature aging.

I’ve been reviewing the different antioxidant rich foods in AIO premium cellular health and was looking at some information about Acai.

Acai is the Portuguese word for a type of palm tree that is found in Central and South America. It usually grows in Peru and Brazil, in wet areas and floodplains. Scientifically it is names Euterpe oleracea. The Portuguese name means a plant that cries or expels water. REcently, the plant has become quite well known, particularly for its fruit; which is small, round and purple-black in color. The acai fruit is used by natives in the Brazilian Amazon as food. It is also served as a beverage.

Around the world, interest in acai has been driven by of its nutritional content, antioxidant properties and also its use as a weight loss option. The nutritional content of the fruit is based on proteins, carbohydrates, fat, dietary fiber, vitamins and low sugar value. It is frequently marketed as a dietary supplement, with celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Oz promoting it.

Acai is believed to have antioxidant qualities. Some studies have demonstrated it has polyphenol and antioxidant anthocyanins, vitamins, amino acids, enzymes, phytochemicals and minerals. The antioxidants are considered to have disease-prevention abilities, thus supporting the immune system of individuals who use acai. It has flavanoids that are responsible for combatting conditions like heart diseases. Extracts of acai are found to have an effect against peroxyl, peroxynitrite and hydroxyl radicals. Scientists have shown a link between free radical damage and chronic diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, cataracts and Alzheimer’s disease.
The dense nutritional value of the fruit is also shown to suppress appetites, hence the use as a weight loss option. It improves the libido, reduces inflammation and has been shown to boost stamina and energy as well as delay aging.
Altogether, Acai berry is an antioxidant rich food that supports good health.

Discovering the medical significance of Nitric Oxide (NO) as a signalling molecule for the cardiovascular system earned Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

A signaling molecule is a chemical involved in transmitting information between cells. They are released from the cell sending the signal, cross over the gap between cells, and interact with receptors in another cell, triggering a response in that cell.

The responses that the Nitric Oxide molecule triggers in the cardio vascular system are the stuff of medical miracles for people risking heart attacks caused by the conditions known as hardening of the arteries or coronary artery disease and more accurately referred to as atherosclerosis.

Nitric Oxide relaxes the blood vessels, increasing their elasticity over time, improving or increasing the blood flow and – critically – even dissolving cholesterol plaque, which if ruptured can trigger a heart attack or even a stroke.

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If you want to be amazed with a wonderous design, look no further than the human heart. Even before you were born, it’s muscles are hard at work, circulating oxygen rich blood to every corner of your body and returning oxygen depleted blood to the lungs to be renewed. The average heart beats 37,869,120 times each year, year after year. That’s over two and a half billion heartbeats in a lifetime.

If you’ve ever wondered just how much bood your heart will pump in
your life, consider that you’d have to turn your kitchen tap on full blast and leave it running for 45 years. It would fill 200 railroad tanker cars. How hard does your heart work to pump blood? Pick up a tennis ball and give it a tight squeeze, that is how hard your heart needs to work with every beat. I don’t think that the most brilliant human engineer has ever designed anything that comes close to the marvel that is your heart.

Unquestionably, your heart is a powerhouse and it’s worth protecting because you can’t live without a beating heart. Did you know that with an average of one person dying every 34 seconds, 40% of all the deaths in the United States are the result of heart disease? The leading cause of heart disease is Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

Because it’s the hardest working muscle in the body, the heart also needs to produce a lot of energy. It’s this high level of energy production that makes your heart vulnerable to the attack of free radicals. Being vlunerable to free radical damage, the heart therefore has a high demand for antioxidants, the most important of which is Glutathione – Your Body’s Master Antioxidant.

Your Heart’s Energy Engines
Your heart’s incredible energy output is produced within each cell in cellular power plants called Mitochondria. Every cell in your body has these designated energy producing sites. The average cell in an average organ has a few hundred mitochondria, but the cells that make up the endlessly toiling muscles of your heart are estimated to have up to 5,000! Cellular energy comes in the form of a substance called ATP which stands for adenosine triphosphate.

The complicated chemical processes within your cells that support the mitochondria to produce energy from nutrients have some unfortunate by- products. I guess its not all that different from any form of production that creates something from raw materials- there is always a waste product. But in the case of cellular energy production the by-products have a damaging effect.

The by- products are free radicals – damaged oxygen molecules that were not completely and cleanly metabolized in energy production process. With the high concentration of energy producing mitochondria in the heart, there is an equally high concentration of free radicals. Without the intervention of antioxidant activity, free radicals create a chain reaction within the cells that can damage them and their components – including the cellular DNA. Accumulated damage can lead to a host of what are usually thought of as the chronic diseases of aging.

CAD and Heart Disease
Arteriosclerosis – Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) which is generally referred to as a hardening of the arteries or loss of arterial elasticity and is one of the leading causes of Heart disease, has been linked to a substance called lipid peroxidase. This is what happens when the lipids in your heart become free radicals. Lipids, by the way are a large group of molecules which include waxes, sterols, fats and the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E & K. As well as having high levels of free radicals, patients with CAD have also been found with reduced levels of antioxidants like Glutathione.

Without an adequate supply of antioxidants to scavenge free radicals in the heart, this organ and the arteries in the system will be subjected to a condition known as oxidative stress.

While our bodies have originally been designed to clean up the free radicals created by normal processes, most of us are now dealing with extra stresses that were not part of the original plan. These stresses include environmental poisons (and especially cigarette smoke!), nutritionally inadequate diets, the pressures and emotional stress of everyday living and poor conditioning of the muscles from a lack of exercise. These added pressures of living place our antioxidant reserves at a distinct disadvantage.

The Benefits of Boosting our Glutathione and Antioxidant Reserves
As we get older our systems naturally begin to slow down. The mitochondria in our heart muscles are gradually producing less energy and our glutathione production is falling. It drops off by about 10% for every decade past our twenties.

Glutathione is vital for a healthy heart. Boosting glutathione levels will not make you live forever, but given how hard your heart is working for you, it only makes sense to improve your diet, live a healthier lifestyle and take concrete steps to increase the natural production of glutathione.

The free radical theory of aging explains many of the ways our various organ systems are degraded over time by oxidative stress and demonstrates very clearly that boosting antioxidant levels can help to increase our absolute life span and certainly improve the quality of our life and health as senior citizens.

From your first breath to your last and for each microsecond in between , there are battles raging in each cell in you . There are literally millions of these battles going on simultaneously and they involve oxyradicals on one hand and antioxidants on the other . They affect how long you live , your vulnerability to many different medical conditions and without question the quality of your vitality as a senior citizen .

Your brain is highly vulnerable to damage from free radicals because although it only represents 2% of your body mass , about 20% of your oxygen is metabolized in your brain. Free or Oxy-radicals – electron challenged oxygen molecules are created by by a variety of things , but one source is a natural and unavoidable by-product of oxygen metabolization . Since twenty percent of your oxygen intake is used by your brain, it stands to reason that the cells in your brain will be subjected to many free radicals.

Within your brain is a large concentration of naturally occurring molecules called Lipids. Lipids include sterols, waxes, fats and a seletion of fat soluble vitamins like E, A, D and K. Lipids store energy, they are signaling molecules and thy’re structural components of your cell membranes. Lipid peroxidation is the name for free radical damage to Lipids and a reason for the importance of antioxidant supplements .

Your defense against Lipid peroxidation within your brain is from antioxidants and at best from a group referred to as the antioxidant network or network antioxidants , made up of Vitamins C, E, CoEnzymeQ10, Glutathione and Lipolic acid . Network Antioxidants help each other to clear out free radicals from you brain and are also uniquely capable of repairing each other . Among the Network Antioxidants, the most important is Glutathione laso known as The Master Antioxidant. It is naturally manufactured in your body and are present in each and every cell.

Sadly , your brain maintains lower levels of Glutathione than do other organs and with aging , the average supply is further depleted since our ability to make Glutathione declines by around ten percent for each decade past our twenties . But the brain needs Glutathione to stay healthy. Look at the part that Antioxidants play in connection with Alzheimer’s Disease – or senile dementia.

There is a strong link between aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease . In an August 2009 study conducted on rats , two equal groups were deliberately given aluminum toxins, but one of those groups was also supplemented with antioxidant oxyradicals scavengers. The first group had a significant increase in lipid peroxidation and a condition known as oxidative stress – that’s the result of unchecked free radical damage. Reduced Glutathione and other network antioxidants were also noted . For the rats that were provided with the toxins along with the free radical scavengers, none of these changes were measured .

With it’s vulnerability to the formation of free radicals an abundant supply of antioxidants ( especially Network Antioxidants and most importantly , Glutathione) is key to sustaining a healthy and functioning brain. While oral glutathione supplements are not considered to be effective, you can take a glutathione precursor like Max One .

I am not a licensed health practitioner and so please don’t think that you will get expert diagnostic or treatment information from this post. You will not. But what you will get is a considered point of view about a course of action you can try if you are suffering from chronic pain.

Chronic pain – by definition – is long lasting and/or recurrent. It can persist for months or- as is often the case – for years. Chronic pain is not the immediate result of a traceable injury. The simple truth is that if you severely twist an ankle when you’re out running, it is supposed to hurt the next day. Pain is your body’s way of telling you that something is physically wrong. For many injuries and strains, the pain you fell the next day is a result of the inflammation caused in the cells.

In that sense, the immediate pain and one of the recurring themes is chronic pain is the same and that theme is inflammation. Inflammation is itself a frequent chronic condition that many of us suffer from even if we aren’t aware of it. But when the symptom of the inflammation is pain, it gets our attention.

Inflammation is often caused by the unchecked action of free radical damage within our cells. One reason that the damage can continue is that there are not enough antioxidants available to clear out the free radicals. There are many types of free radicals and many types of antioxidants that will defend against them, but not all antioxidants are created equal and on the most important is an antioxidant called glutathione.

Glutathione is often referred to as the body’s Master Antioxidant for the simple reason that it’s present in every cell of the body. Because it is meant to always be at the scene of the crime, glutathione is uniquely suited to support the removal of free radicals. Unfortunately, as we age we produce less glutathione.

So getting to the point, one tactic you can try – and something that has worked for people who have suffered from chronic pain is to increase the level of antioxidants in your body in order to clear the free radicals and treat the inflammation. You can increase your intake of Vitamins C and E. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and to boost glutathione you can try MaxGXL or MaxONE.

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Inflammation is what happens when the body’s immune systems protect us from infection and foreign substances like toxins, bacteria and viruses. But, in auto immune diseases, the defense system inappropriately sets off an inflammatory response when there are no foreign substances to fight off and causes damage to itself.
Your immune system assaults normal tissues as if they are infected or contaminated. When inflammation happens, chemicals from your white blood cells are released into the blood and/or affected tissues for the purpose of ridding the body of alien toxins. This release of chemicals adds to the flow of blood to the close-by area and may result in heat, swelling and redness. Also, the inflammatory process may stimulate nerves and result in significant pain.

Arthritis is a general term that describes inflammation in joints. Some, but not all types of arthritis are the fallout from misdirected inflammation. Some types of inflammatory arthritis include:rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, tendinitis and Gout .

While not all need to be present , the basic symptoms of inflammation are redness, a swollen joint that is warm to the touch, pain and stiffness in the joint and a loss of joint function. Also, inflammation might as well be associated with general “flu-like” symptoms like – feeling chilled or feverishness tiredsness and a loss of energy, headaches, stiff muscles and a loss of appetite.

While the original pain caused by inflammation can seem bad enough, the added cells and it can get much worse – in the long term wearing down of cartilage (cushions at the end of bones) and joint lining. Inflammation can also be a problem for organs. The type of symptoms depends on which organs are inflamed .

* An inflamed heart (myocarditis) may result in shortness of breath or leg swelling
* Inflammation of the narrow tubes that bring air to the lungs may set off an asthma episode
* Inflamed Kidneys (nephritis) may lead to high blood pressure or kidney failure
* Inflammation of the large intestine (colitis) might lead to cramps and diarrhea.

Pain may not be a primary symptom of the inflammatory disease, since many organs do not have a lot of pain-sensitive nerves.

There are several treatment alternatives for inflammatory diseases, but as a rule, the medical community will rely on prescription anti-inflammatories, pain medication, rest, exercise and surgery to correct joint damage.

The goals of treatment are to:

* Avoid or modify activities that aggravate pain
* Relieve pain with analgesics (pain-relieving medications ) and anti-inflammatory medications
* Maintain joint movement and muscle strength through physical therapy
* Decrease stress on the joints by using braces, splints or canes as necessary

What’s absent are any preventative steps or treatment courses designed to basically help your body by increasing your antioxidant levels , making dietary improvements , reducing stress in your life and neutralizing everyday toxins – because they truly are everywhere. Antioxidants will help your body to fight toxins and inflammation. Importantly, when you increase your glutathione – the master antioxidant (which your body actually makes itself), you will fight inflammation from free radical damage in every organ of your body.

Trans Resveratrol is a naturally occurring antioxidant found in peanuts and grapes . It is present in in the roots, seeds and vines of grapes , but mostly occurs in grape skins. The presence of resveratrol is much higher in red wine than white wine due to the varieties of grape they’re made from and the ways they are made . For red wine, the skin and the seeds are involved in the process and the beneficial polyphenols are included in the wine.

An article published in a 2006 issue of Nature looked at the effectiveness of resveratrol for stretching the life-span and reversing the problems caused by obesity. Laboratory mice were divided into 3 cluster . The first group was given a high-calorie diet in which 60% of the calories were from fat . In addition , the mice were given trans resveratrol. The second cluster received the same high fat diet, but received no resveratrol. The third group received a basic , calorie-reduced diet. When the results were reviewed for the both high-calorie groups , they observed that resveratrol reduced the death rate by one third and impacted fat- related problems from Edit this text heart disease and diabetes. The resveratrol group had similar health metrics as the calorie-reduced group .

In a paper released in a 2006 issue of Current Biology, scientists measured the impact effect resveratrol could exert on stretching the lifespan of short-lived fish. At one month old , they were divided into four clusters . The control cluster got a standard food diet. The remaining groups of fish were fed food that included a resveratrol supplement in three different concentrations ranging from twenty four – six hundred micrograms/gram .

Fish in the control group and the lowest resveratrol cluster enjoyed a survival rate that matched the expected lifespan of the species . Fish receiving the next higher amount of trans resveratrol had a median life expectancy that was 30 percent longer than normal . Fish in the third resveratrol cluster (600 micrograms/gram of food) survived 59% longer. Scientists observed that the subject fish in the high dose cluster were breeding at age twelve weeks while all the fish in the control group were already dead . In addition , researchers tested all fish during the study and discovered that the subjects receiving the resveratrol demonstrated good retention of learning skills and a decease in age-related brain deterioration. They concluded that resveratrol significantly extended the life of these short -lived fish and delayed the start of age-related memory difficulties .

Updated production procedures have made it easier to concentrate the beneficial ingredients from grape skins and a wealth of other plants so they can aid pursue better health. Consider that , Resvinol-25™ used in RGarden’s Trans Resveratrol Supplement is a high potency product in which every 100 mg contains the same amount of resveratrol as thirty five glasses of red wine.