Antioxidants

Your body needs antioxidants to neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals. Free radicals are the by-product of common bodily processes (eating, breathing, exercising) and can also result from environmental factors like pollution, pesticides, cigarette smoking, and alcohol consumption. This is exacerbated if you don’t get enough sleep, regular exercise, lack a nutritious diet and live a stressful life. All these factors can cause the deterioration of your cell structure, making you age faster or become ill Antioxidants bond to these free radicals, returning them to a stable state. When you increase the antioxidants available to perform this neutralizing work, you support your body in limiting the free radical damage which also accumulates with age. Good antioxidants support your body in protecting you from these negative effects Until

now, scientists believed drinking red wine had health benefits and a range of resveratrol products have hit the market in recent years extolling the virtues of the anti-oxidants found in wine. Now they believe the resveratrol in wine has little to do with the actual wine itself. This latest research indicates that highly-concentrated resveratrol without the alcohol, sugars and calories of wine, is found within the actual grape seeds themselves. These antioxidants are found in a large family of natural antioxidant compounds called Polyphenols exist in plant floods and their contribution to the antioxidant capacity of the human diet is much larger than that of vitamins. And a subclass of this antioxidant-rich family found in fruits and vegetables is flavonoids.

Dietary supplements won’t replace a healthy, well balanced diet of wholesome, unprocessed food. But grape seed extract and other specific fruit antioxidants are an excellent complement to a healthy diet in providing you with free radical protection and healthy aging.