I'm on Cloud Nine. Preach it to us, Sister Victoreah!
;D
Our bodies are under stress from the environment every day.
And if anyone duzn't know whut a free radical iz
...ya betta find out. This is easy to understand:
success-is-us.net/ebay/html/freeradicals.htm Environmental sources of free radicals include:
Physical Pollution
Exposure to ionizing radiation from:
*Industry
*Sun exposure; ultraviolet rays
*Cosmic rays
*Medical X-rays
*Noise
Heavy metals such as:
*Mercury
*Cadmium
*Lead
Air Pollution:
*Cigarette smoke (both active and passive)
*Nitrous oxide (primarily from automobile exhaust)
*Ozone
*Hydrocarbons
*Carbon Monoxide, Trichloroethylene, Formalin,
*Solvents, Cadmium, Tetraethyl lead
Food Pollution:
*Pesticides
*Alcohol
*Unsaturated fat, oxidasic fatty acids
*Detergents
*pyrolyzed amino acids (caused by heat)
*Insecticides
*Water Pollution: nitrates, heavy metals
*Infections: bacteria, virus, parasites
Chlorine, New Carpeting, Air Fresheners etc...
*Other Chemicals and Compounds from Food, Water, and Air
All these stress agents are present in our bodies in one form or another.
QUOTE:
"All that mankind needs for good health and healing is
provided in nature…the challenge to science is to find it."
--- Paracelsus, the father of Pharmacology
The word nutraceuticals is an unofficial term that came from the combination of nutrition and pharmaceutical. The word is meant to describe natural food-based (nutrition) substances that have pharmacological (healing) effects on the human body. Nutraceuticals is a relatively new term used by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine for all natural, standardized, non-toxic dietary supplements designed to optimize health through improved nutrition.
A glyconutrient is a new and more specialized type of nutraceutical. They support the process our individual tissue cells use to recognize, and communicate with, each other. The 1999 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to DR. GÜNTER BLOBEL for his work in this NEW field of Science-Medicine called Glycobiology.
Yay Victoreah! Go lady-goil! I knew you could!!!