All About Antioxidants and Your Brain

admin | February 27th, 2011 - 10:29 pm

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 .

MAX GXL and Glutathione

admin | March 22nd, 2009 - 7:54 pm

Glutathione is big news, this amino acid based compound that’s manufactured by your body can be found in every cell. Your body tries to manufacture a steady supply of it. Orally supplementing glutathione seems to be ineffective, but a different alternative, presented by a product called MAXGXL is considerably more promising – to the extent that people taking MAXGXL in a controled study showed a 400% increase in their levels of glutathione. The developer of MAXGXL Dr. Robert Keller, was awarded a composition patent from the US government, something that is usually reserved for pharmaceuticals.

MAXGXL is not a glutathione supplement or a replacement for glutathione or a synthetic clone. It’s what’s called a precursor, which is a substance that needs to be present in order for the body to manufacture glutathione. It supports a totally natural process, enabling the body to replenish itself. As we grow older, our bodies lose the ability to manufacture gluathione at the same levels as when we were young. And it doesn’t take all that long either, production slows down when we leave our twenties. Because as an anti-oxidant glutathione scavanges free radials from our system, when the levels are reduces, these cell damaging toxins build up on our systems. Studies done on lab mice, born with decreased levels of liver glutathione only survived for 2-3 months. It’s a demonstration worth noting and it supports the importance of glutathione.
Staying healthy and vigorous for as long as possible is an important goal for most people. You don’t need to be a “health nut” to want your body to keep on functioning and functioning well. Pollutants in the air, poor diets and a build up of toxin creating free-radicals in our systems age us and that’s a short way of saying that we physically degenerate.

Consider MAXGXL. Taken twice a day as directed, many people have reported an increased feeling of well being and heightened energy levels in as little as a week.