Modern medicine, by the preponderance of evidence, states that most damage in the body is the result of damage from free radicals. Free radicals are unstable molecules in the body that result from many causes besides disease, including your own body's digestion, metabolism, immune system function, and many other ways. Stable molecules in the body normally have their electrons come in pairs. Molecules that lose an electron are usually unstable and are called free radicals. These unstable molecules, with only one electron, cause many problems in the body. Read the article the, "Free Radical Cascade," to understand more about free radicals.

The idea is that neutralizing free radicals is often as important, or more important than neutralizing disease. For example, a person gets the flu. The flu creates stress and the body attempts to neutralize the stress from the flu swiftly. If the flu is not neutralized swiftly then a whole cascade of events follow. The bodies' immune system responds, which leads to a pro-inflammatory response, which creates free radicals and swelling of tissue. The free radicals and the swollen tissue create more free radicals and more swelling. This makes it difficult for the body to repair the damaged tissue due to the decrease in circulation from the swelling and continued damage from free radicals. The body needs to decrease swelling so it activates cortisol, which will suppress the immune system and lead to less inflammatory responses, which will help decrease swelling. However, now you have decreased immune response, which makes healing more difficult. You also have swollen tissues, so even though inflammatory responses have been slowed down by cortisol, the swollen and damaged tissue is not easy to repair and rebuild. You also have ongoing creation of free radicals due to all the processes going on that are healing and destroying tissue. For example, immune responses can lead to free radical creation, while swelling can also lead to free radical creation.

The idea is that stress is what results in creation of free radicals and even when tissue stabilizes or continues to degenerate, the creation of free radicals continues. Therefore, to neutralize free radicals the body uses antioxidants. Antioxidants are nutrient substances that the body uses to neutralize free radicals. So whenever you are dealing with disease processes you must be sure that besides the therapies you are using to handle the disease aspect, you need to supplement optimal antioxidant protocols to help repair, rebuild, and resist further disease and free radical production. To find more information about this read the article, "Dr. Bob's Methods to Boost Immunity."

There is one other idea we would like to express about free radicals. Free radical production can be accumulative. Free radicals are generated by stress. Stress can be from the environment, the nutrition, from activity, and from inner stress such as psychological stress. This means the body does its best to neutralize free radicals, but free radicals continue to accumulate from stress until eventually you are unable to handle the total load and disease, degeneration, and breakdown occurs.

For example, allergies, toxic substances such as chemicals in the air, pesticides for your garden, ultra violet rays, magnetic energy, energy from power lines, poor nutrition, inadequate amounts of exercise, mold, poor air, toxic water supply, extreme cold or heat, pesticides in food, bug sprays, cosmetics, fungus, yeast, dust, pollen, carbon monoxide breathed inside your car as you drive, improper venting, undetected small gas leaks, improper house construction and supplies used, pets, non-organic foods, denatured foods, over processed foods, genetically altered foods, toxic substances breathed or eaten, heavy metals in the body, mercury fillings, chronic disease, poor energy, lack of good rest and sleep, emotional stress, extreme emotions such as compulsive behavior and extreme anxiety, depression, overweight or underweight by extremes, accidents, traumas, medications, antibiotics, hormonal imbalance, travel, and many other stresses can lead to free radical accumulation. When the body can no longer handle the total load of free radical accumulation that is often when disease, degeneration, and breakdown begin to happen. Therefore, a key to health is to avoid or eliminate as many things as you can that create stress in the body. Also you can begin to add things that promote health and neutralize stress in the body, such as proper exercise, optimal antioxidant supplementation, better nutrition, and so on.

In conclusion, stress creates free radicals. Many disease processes result in free radical accumulation and addressing free radical accumulation as well as other problems in the body from disease is vital. Also, reducing free radical accumulation, which means reducing the total load of free radical production in the body, can also help in reducing total free radical production in the body, which can help combat the disease process and the cascade of events from disease.


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