Benefits of Antioxidants for your Health
Antioxidants help to reverse the effects of free radicals that can damage your cells and your DNA1. Free radicals are a natural by-product of the metabolism of healthy living cells and can be used to neutralise viruses and bacteria. Too many free radicals however, can seriously damage your cells and this damage can accumulate as we become older2. A free radical is an atom that doesn’t have enough electrons in its outer shell, so it searches for other atoms hoping to steal an electron to make itself stable. Unfortunately, the other atom now has one less electron and itself, becomes...
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