Many powerful antioxidants exist. These important nutrients have many health benefits, including boosting the immune system, and helping to fight off cancer and free radical damage. Some of these powerful substances are in some of the most amazing foods, foods that you may cherish, and love to eat.
One of the most powerful antioxidants in the world is packed in a tiny package. Cherries contain anthocyanins, which provide cherries with their incredibly vibrant color. On top of this cherries contain a chemical known as a flavonoid. This powerful substances contains some of the most potent anti-inflammatory and anti-aging benefits available to man.
Cherries are often recommended to individuals suffering from chronic inflammation, including those with arthritis or similar diseases. Cherries contain more anthocyanins than other fruits including blueberries and raspberries, blackberries and even strawberries. That’s quite a powerful statement.
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Another powerful antioxidant is Alpha Lipoic Acid, or ALA. This antioxidant helps remove free radicals too, which are nothing more than wastes produced when the body converts food into energy. Unfortunately free radicals can do a lot of damage. They can result in degeneration of cells, and illness.
ALA helps protect certain vitamins, including vitamin C and E, helping these two vitamins in the fight against free radical damage. ALA helps in the fight against high blood pressure, heart disease, hepatitis C, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. That’s quite a powerful antioxidant!
Where can you get this powerful antioxidant?
It is most widely available in natural sources, including from dark leafy vegetables, like spinach, collard greens, and from broccoli. You can also get ALA from meat products including organ meats and beef. One of the best parts of ALA is that it is what is known as a “universal” antioxidant meaning that it can travel to all cells, deactivating free radicals working with all other agents that contain antioxidants.
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