Can Antioxidant Dietary Supplements Improve your Health?

What Are Antioxidant Supplements?

Free radicals are molecules which attack and change cells within your body. They are caused by things like poor dietary habits, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol, and pollution.

And free radicals cause aging, illness, serious diseases and death. So antioxidant dietary supplements work by preventing free radicals from attacking your cells to begin with. They work on prevention, as opposed to cure. But they can also fix some of the damage already done to your major organs and reverse some of the harm caused by free radicals and the aging process.

Is It Necessary to Take Supplements?

The main source of antioxidants is healthy foods, especially fruits and vegetables. Most people do not eat enough of these foods to get the antioxidants their body needs, so supplementation is recommended.

All food types are assigned an ORAC value (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity). The foods that have higher antioxidant content have a higher ORAC value.

Berries like raspberries, cranberries, pomegranate and blueberries have much higher ORAC values than other foods, but berries are highly perishable and not available year round.

There are supplements available that contain these berries – even the wild Alaskan blueberry, which has ten times the ORAC value of ordinary blueberries. So you can benefit from the antioxidant properties of these berries, when they are not in season.

What Health Benefits Will Antioxidant Supplements Give You?

The concentrated number of antioxidants in the supplements will prevent free radicals from attacking your cells. This will result in a slowing down of the aging process and prevention of serious disease including cancer and heart disease.

By taking antioxidant supplements you will feel and look younger and healthier. But to get the best results, you should cut down, or eliminate food and substances containing free radicals. And you should also improve your diet, to include more antioxidant rich foods and begin an exercise regime.

By combining diet, regular exercise and antioxidant dietary supplements you will be able to reverse some of the damage already done by the aging process.

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Antioxidant Sources – The Essential List
The following antioxidant sources will help you to choose foods with higher ORAC values, to ensure that you get enough valuable antioxidants in your diet.

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