Disease-Causing Free Radicals

Doctors and scientists now know that free radicals in our bodies are the factors that cause nearly every known disease, from heart disease to arthritis, and cancer and cataracts. In fact, free radicals are the major culprit in the aging process itself. Free radicals are the cause of premature aging. Do you want premature aging?

Cells grow, and then they replicate, and then they die. So before they die they must copy themselves.

Each cell is like a fireplace. You have energy, oxygen and heat, and that makes combustion. The combustion gives off more heat and more energy and more light, but the by-product is ashes. Ashes fill up the fireplace and it becomes less efficient until it is clogged. The ashes are like free radicals, they have to be cleaned up. Ideally the free radicals (or the ashes) should be cleaned up the instant they are formed, otherwise free radicals choke and clog and damage future combustion. Each cell is like each fireplace performing combustion, and to live healthy we have to remove the ashes.

Think of it this way — each cell is like a city — it gets power and when it has power it has garbage collection, a police department, protective walls, street-cleaners, internal power plants, water supply, and its own solar power forming energy and working the machinery. Well, what happens when the cell is damaged is every cell is then like a city that has a brown-out when it loses power.

It is like New York City losing its power, and the resulting brown-out lets New York City become dirty and filthy because there is no garbage pickup and there is no power supply, and the cells start dying because there are no police, there are no doctors, there are no nurses. The air is dirty and the water is dirty. And so free radicals in our body are just like turning down the power and then New York City is in a brown-out.

Well, the answer is easy — remove the damaging oxygen free radicals and the weakened power supply of each cell starts working again. It becomes a city that is efficient and working and growing and not dying. It is kind of like comparing Times Square versus Detroit.

We brought vitamins and antioxidants into the 21st Century.

We brought lotions and potions and wrinkle therapy treatments into the 21st Century.

The old, current lotions just add water to each skin cell like dipping a dry sponge into water and it swells up. But like any sponge, the wet sponge dries out in a few hours and the old, dry sponge starts cracking. The old face lotion technology is a waste of money.

For that reason, I was always skeptical and cynical with any advertised skin treatment ads because doctors and scientists know that wrinkles of skin are just the superficial outward sign of internal aging. Aging happens to the skin cells from the inside, so the real issue is the tissue. Lotions and potions applied ON the skin would never change skin-aging wrinkles.

The Nu Skin AgeLOC products have finally changed all of that.

Let me ask you -- Have you ever made a Xerox copy of an original? That first copy can look pretty good. Now, have you ever taken that copy and made a copy of that? That is when you find out that every time something is copied, even at 99% accuracy, the next copy rapidly gets worse than the original. After just a few copies the original and the even the fifth copy (or in the case of the cells in the body, maybe the millionth copy) no longer resemble each other.

An inferior copy of a damaged cell can become a cancer cell. So it really is that simple. You want each cell to copy itself at 100%, and each cell needs the ingredients each time it grows. Those ingredients are the nutrients and antioxidants that we get into our body.

In a perfect world our metabolism has created the oxygen and nutrition for each cell to make an exact copy, but only if we give the cell what it needs to replicate.

Did you know that almost 50 million cells replicate each minute and then die, and the offspring are the next generation of each cell?

In the real world, free oxygen radicals attack and damage the next copy and then damage the next copy until finally one next copy is a cancer cell that does not resemble the original ancestor at all.

So it is like you having kids, and then your kids have kids, and then they have kids and so on, but something went wrong and mutated and your tenth great-grandchild looks like a frog or a lump of coal.

An example may be that the more antioxidants you bring in is like having more power in the city, and more trash collection and police force, and bring in more doctors and nurses to revive each dying cell.

We only have three types of cells in our body - cells that are alive, cells that are dead, and cells that are in a coma. The cells in the coma can either be revived and survive or go ahead and die, and the deciding factor is the antioxidants. Antioxidants are like CPR for the cells in a coma and doctors and nurses reviving that patient from the coma. So it is the weak cells that are in a coma and could be dying that are the most critical, and antioxidants save them and revive them !

A simple example is when you start with three cells and one dies and you have lost one-third. Then the next cell could die and you have lost two-thirds. The one last remaining cell is not strong enough to fight off cancer or defend itself with an immune system. It is not strong enough to stop premature aging of our brain, or muscles, or joints, or heart, or internal organs, or even our outward appearance with going bald, or developing cellulite or wrinkles. It has been proven that antioxidants can save those cells from dying and slow all of that premature aging.

It's EASY ... antioxidants are the "antidotes" to aging and degenerating prematurely.

Hundreds of billions of free radicals are formed each day inside our body. If it took just a hundred free radicals to kill a cell, then over a million cells each day are damaged until they are killed. And dead cells cannot help us with our mental alertness, physical alertness, and sexual vitality.

Each cell is like one bubble in a sheet of bubble wrap. So think of a sheet of bubble wrap and every cell is inflated and helping the cell next to it. Well, a free radical is like a hot match or a sharp needle, it pops the bubble and it goes from protective bubble wrap around a million dollar Chinese Ming vase to being deflated and flat like Saran Wrap that has no protection. Your body is worth much more than a vase, so why not protect it?

Another easy example is that each cell is like one slice of an apple. If it is unprotected, it turns brown in just a few minutes. A brown apple is an example of free radicals oxidizing the cells. Mom's little secret was to squeeze lemon juice (antioxidants) on the apple slices and they never turned brown. They never oxidized.

The free radicals in our body turn our cells brown because of premature aging. Macular degeneration in our eye is just like the apple. The pink retina that gives us vision for driving, TV, computers, and cell phones oxidizes just like the apple and turns brown. That is called macular degeneration. Antioxidants are just like the lemon juice and protect the macula just like it protected the apple slices; the macula does not turn brown and we do not lose our vision. So it is so simple, antioxidants prevent macular degeneration and so, therefore, antioxidants prevent blindness. So your mother was right! Eat your fruits and vegetables and take your antioxidant supplements.

I have researched this for 30 years. If I had to take one nutritional supplement the rest of my life I would choose Lifepak Nano. I feel that this truly is an anti-aging program and the dietary supplement has the best DNA protection.

Lifepak Nano increases cardiovascular health, immune system support, bone and joint health, antioxidant defense, and brain health. Lifepak Nano helps with nutrition and metabolism benefits, promotes eye health and prevents blindness, gives skin health and prevents wrinkles, dental health and prevents loss of your teeth, weight loss, and better control of diabetes to prevent diabetic complications.

I must admit, in our busy, hectic life, there is no way that my family and I can eat six to ten helpings of fruits and vegetables in a day. But, I am sure that I can take a few antioxidant nutrient supplement pills each day because that is so much simpler, safer, and more successful. Sometimes my family and I are just lazy, or we are on the go, or not eating healthy. Taking vitamins is the KISS (keep it super simple) principle to prevent blindness, decrease cancers, and slow the aging process, including wrinkles, hair loss and cellulite.

So in summary, you can get your fruits and vegetables in a vitamin capsule. What could be easier? The vitamins, minerals, and supplements are no substitutes for real fruits and vegetables from Mother Nature, but they are the next best thing and sometimes with our busy schedules that will just have to do. Vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants are required to live, grow, and fight the free radicals responsible for premature aging, cancers, and blindness.

I am going to take my vitamins right now.