Health and Wealth 247

Dr. White has been known to talk about antioxidants and the need to protect our cells and how nature has given us powerful weapons in the cell protection armoury in the shape of the ones we make ourselves and the ones that we have to get from our diet. Additionally I mentioned that animals’ cells need protection too and the fact that we use a standard called the ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) unit to measure the antioxidant potential of any given substance with antioxidant properties, and there are many, ranging from the three intracellular ones to vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and a host of others.

Antioxidants, as we now know, ward off the attacks of the free radicals produced from energy production in our cells. If we do not have sufficient antioxidant protection our cells suffer damage to all of their components including the DNA. We minimize that damage with the right combination of self-produced and dietary sourced protection. The problem with the average North American diet though is that it is poor in really good antioxidants and high in salt, fat and sugar…not so good. So we can improve protection in two ways, 1) Eat better 2) take the highest quality antioxidant formulation around such as Provit Xcell +.

Those two will really protect your beleaguered cells in concert with those intracellular ones we make ourselves. So how do we know what is a good antioxidant preparation versus a moderate or poor one? We measure its Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) which tells us how much of that nasty old corrosive by-product of intracellular energy production the preparation will mop up.

The higher the score in ORAC units, the better the antioxidant protection. This is where SomaLife’s outstanding ProVit Xcell + comes in. It was formulated by the scientific advisors to have the highest ORAC unit score of any product that we are aware of, in the right blend of vitamins, minerals and plant based antioxidants to provide all of the other non antioxidant related benefits that many of these substances have in addition to their antioxidant protection. Brilliant concept, exceptionally well executed, and even without the fish oil, ProVit Xcell + has an ORAC unit rating of 7200, which is far in excess of the 5 or 6,000 units we need daily to protect ourselves fully, and more than twice as much as in the average North American diet which contains only about 3,000 ORAC units worth of protection. This really is a case of more is better and anyone not taking it should consider how seriously they really take their own well being. Interestingly, the more active you are, the more protection you need as you will need more energy and hence make more free radicals.

So it is even more vital for the athlete, or very active individual, and the cats whose basal metabolic rate (remember?) is higher than ours, to avail themselves of optimal antioxidant protection. Unfortunately for Chubby George the Marmalade Cat and Evie the Svelte black one that I fall over at night now that fall is almost here and it is dark by 8pm or so, we have not got an optimal antioxidant product for them yet, but we will and hopefully they will be able to enjoy some health and life extension benefits. Next month, Fish oils (the cats should be happy with that!) and why you must take them.

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