Oxidation — A Degenerative Process
Why do some people look older than others? There are people that look younger than their physical age, whereas some folks look much older than their physical age. This is due to the fact that some people tend to age prematurely from a faster rate of oxidation, whereas some tend to retain youth longer due to a slower rate of oxidation within.
A healthy long life is defined as maintaining youth and health. If you break an apple into a half, you will notice that it soon turns brown. This is due to the “polyphenol” reacting with oxygen. The very same process takes place within our bodies; it is the main cause of degenerative diseases and premature aging. Free radicals cause diseases such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, atopic dermatitis, allergy and numerous others.
These non-infectious diseases, modern health challenges, and/or diseases which originate within our bodies are also known as adult-onset diseases. According to the Korean Health Ministry’s published study, the chronic disease rate from 1995 at 29.9% jumped to more than 46.2% by 2002.
What does this mean? Our modern living environment, the food and drink we eat and absorb, including water are becoming highly oxidized, and our bodies are succumbing to the oxidative stresses of our environment, falling prey to an ever increasing rate of chronic diseases. And, modern medical science doesn’t offer any real solutions.
Finding Solutions
As we age, our bodies are subjected to:
- A slow-down in body metabolism [hormones do not function effectively, causing endocrine problems and other adult-onset diseases ].
- Collagen depletion in the skin [causing wrinkles and aged skin conditions]
- Insufficient cellular respiration [lack of oxygen] throughout the body causing other disease processes. Lack of oxygen is the primary cause of cancer .
- Poor saturation of tissue fatty acids within the body, causing poor cellular function and adult-onset diseases such as atherosclerosis and cancer [lack of unadulterated parent EFAs, esp. omega-6, cause atherosclerosis, and lack of cellular respiration].
- Rapid oxidation [free radicals] throughout the body, causing various adult-onset diseases .
- Chronic dehydration causing cellular dysfunction, oxidative stress and many disease processes that mask themselves as something else.
These conditions form the age related modern health challenges and/or diseases that are experienced as adult-onset infirmities or problems. But, aging does not have to be that way. And with proper nutrition we are able to lead youthful lives, especially in the golden years. For example:
Nutritional support for healthy hormone function is available at any age so that the fires of youth keep burning strong—no matter where you are on life’s journey. Your hormones are the bits and bytes of your body’s information technology system, defining and determining the way your body operates. High-carbohydrate (low-calorie) diets, so prominent over the past 50 years, have destroyed women’s delicate hormones (Textbook of Medical Biochemistry – A Clinical Approach: Lots of carbohydrate destroys hormones). The diet roller coaster most people have been on over their adult lives can also have a negative effect on the thyroid, which plays a major role in weight management. As messenger molecules, hormones help to regulate basic functions such as growth, development and reproduction. To stay productive, the endocrine system depends on a steady diet of nutritional amino acids. MediTropin is formulated to nourish your body with the amino acids specifically targeted to keep your endocrine system working hard to keep you going strong, even in the golden years.*
Recent advances in the lab have led to products that utilize botanical extracts with powerful antioxidants to protect the outermost layer of the skin, peptides that stimulate the matrix molecules in the skin, including collagen, and vitamin-rich emollients to moisturize and rehydrate. Use of Nutraceutics’ RELASTYL and Serum C topical skin nutrition works with needed botanical extracts to nourish collagen formation and address the deficiencies of nutritional exchange within the skin.* HydrogenRich Water [active hydrogen] is essential for bathing and hydrating skin cells so that topical skin nutrition can be more effective at the cellular level.* YES Parent Essential Oils [Ultimate EFAs] containing a high level of organic omega-6 EFAs specifically nourishes skin tissue which is comprised almost exclusively of omega-6. Skin is composed of 1000 parts omega-6 for every 1 part of omega-3. And we feed the skin omega-3, or even worse, derivatives of omega-3 such as fish oil?
Essential Fatty Acid supplementation with unadulterated parent EFAs in the proper ratio may resolve oxygen deficiency and allow the body to resolve many adult-onset problems.* YES Ultimate EFAs are an excellent parent EFA blend for nourishment of the body.*
HydrogenRich Water [active hydrogen] is by far the best natural antioxidant for scavenging free radicals and hydrating the body; improving cellular function, reducing oxidative stress and reducing the potential for the occurrence of many adult-onset disease processes that mask themselves as something else.*
