Sometimes it seems that there is no worse than the evil to the human body than the free radicals. And only some miraculous qualities or credited antioxidants? Let's try to separate the "wheat from the chaff" and find out where is the truth and baseless fantasies.
Myth 1: Free radicals - is an absolute evil in relation to health
Reality. Make free radicals "universal horror stories" in the eyes of mankind tried to media. On their destructive actions speak much and often, at the same time, few people know that free radicals entirely without human body can not exist. It turns out that free radicals to protect the human body from various infections, because they have pronounced antibacterial properties.
Myth 2. Free radicals enter the body from the outside
Reality. Free radicals produces the human body itself. Millions of radical compounds are produced daily in every cell of the body. These compounds are actively interacting with others to acquire or give up electrons. The amount of free radicals is increased in connection with a number of diseases as well as in aging humans.
Myth 3. Physical activity - a sure method to combat free radicals
Reality. With too strenuous, for that matter, and intelligent load the number of free radicals in the body is greatly increased. Any fatigue fraught with their sharp rise.
Myth 4. antioxidants that actively fight free radicals in the diet is not enough
Reality. It all depends on eating habits. If you eat a hamburger, chips and Coke, of course, you are contributing to the rapid growth of only free radicals in the body. If your diet is a lot of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits, and sometimes for dinner you drink a glass of red wine, then there is no reason to worry. Many antioxidants in blueberries, grapes, sea buckthorn, horse chestnut, tea tree leaves.
Myth 5. The synthesized antioxidants to help fight free radicals is not worse than the natural
Reality. In fact, this statement is far from the truth. Better align the nature of the protective properties of antioxidants to fight free radicals still has not learned. Manufacturers of all kinds of dietary supplements and cosmetics are not yet able to make such effective substances that exist in nature. Although, of course, science does not stand still and moving forward.