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The Antioxidant Miracle Will Help Reduce the Risk
of Heart Disease.
WHAT is HEART DISEASE?
There are several forms of heart disease, but heart disease primarily
comes from the buildup of fatty deposits on the inner surface of
arteries. Eventually these deposits block blood flow, leading to
a heart attack or stroke.
How FREE RADICALS CAUSE AND/OR CONTRIBOHE TO HEART
DISEASE.
Scientists now believe that it's not just the eating of fat that
causes the buildup on the inner surface of the arteries, but those
fats that have been damaged by free radicals. This is called "oxidized
fat," which causes the fat to be more "sticky" therefore
adhering to the inner artery walls more easily. This explains why
smoking and stress are risk factors to heart disease - as are high
fat consumption.
"Don't underestimate the threat free radicals pose to our health.
Scientists now believe that free radicals are causal factors in
nearly every known disease, from heart disease to arthritis, cancer,
and cataracts.
In fact, free radicals are a major culprit in the aging process
itself. By controlling free radicals, antioxidants can make the
difference between life and death, as well as influence how fast
and how well we age."
Free radicals are involved in both the onset
and the progression of heart disease in several different ways.
When you think of heart disease, you undoubtedly think of chest
pain or a heart attack, but heart disease begins long before the
first symptoms are ever felt. Heart disease begins years earlier
with the oxidation of LDL (low-density lipoproteins), also known
as "bad" cholesterol. This is the first domino to fall
in a long sequence of events that lead to the formation of plaque
in the arteries delivering blood to the heart.
The process can take many years, but if the artery becomes clogged
with plaque, the result can be a suddenloss of blood and oxygen
to the heart, or a heart attack. As with a stroke, much of the damage
that occurs to the heart muscle from a heart attack is caused by
a burst of free radicals after the blood flow is resumed.
Recently we have learned of another way in which free radicals can
promote atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), and how one
free radical in particular, nitric oxide, may play a central role.
Although it is essential for normal blood circulation, excess nitric
oxide can be very dangerous and is believed to be a factor in heart
disease and stroke. In order to have good circulatory health, the
body must maintain the right balance of nitric oxide, and doing
that job falls to the network antioxidants and their boosters.
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