An apple slice turns brown. Fish becomes rancid. A cut on your skin is raw and inflamed. All of these result from a natural process called oxidation. It happens to all cells in nature, including the ones in your body.
To help your body protect itself from the rigors of oxidation, Mother Nature provides thousands of different antioxidants in various amounts in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and legumes. When your body needs to put up its best defense, especially true in today's environment, antioxidants are crucial to your health.
One of the backbones of the Clairify philosopy is the inclusion of several different antioxidants in the plan.
Free radicals are molecules produced when your body breaks down food, or by environmental exposures like tobacco smoke and radiation. Free radicals can damage cells, and may play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
In generations past food was eaten as fresh as possible or it would rot. The nutritional value or composition of the food was not altered by synthetic or artificial compounds like it is today. Almost everywhere we look there is processed food and with that free radical oxidation. This contributes to the health or “unhealthy” crisis we are dealing with right now as a nation.
There are more free radicals in today’s day than in the past for many reasons. The main two are: the over processing of our food which leads to the depletion of antioxidants, and the environmental toxins we come in contact with on a daily basis. In addition to the free radicals we produce in a normal day, we also produce more during exercise, after physical trauma, after any injury, during infections and emotional stress, after strokes and heart attacks and with those who smoke, take most any drug, drink lots of alcohol, and during exposure to both solar and background radiation.
Most people use Lent as a time to heal their souls, but it is a great time to heal your body as well. With Clairify, we promise - your skin, kidneys, and liver will thank you.
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