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Even if you eat a healthy, predominantly plant-based diet with lots of fruits and vegetables, chances are good that the food comes from depleted soils. Added to that, there is also the long transit time for the food to reach us. It is not harvested and appeared in your grocery store kind of thing.

To make things worse, we have the habit of cooking our food “to death”, causing a massive loss of nutritional value, and also skipping meals. Grabbing a bite and making up later in the day at an “all-you-can-eat” buffet is not the best interest to our bodies. It puts undue stress on the digestive system and will eventually cause a lot of uncomfortable symptoms.

Those mentioned are not the last of all, there are also the aging process of our bodies that leads to fewer enzymes being produced by the bodies, and the many stress in our lives that takes a toll on our body and weakens our immune system.

Taking supplements can help bridge that gap and give our body some of the nutrition it needs to function optimally.

The increased and prolonged exposure to these wild and reckless free radicals cause a faster build-up of "rust" or disease in our bodies.

So what are some of the most common reasons our bodies' oxygen molecules oxidise themselves into an increased amount of free radicals? Some of them you're probably well aware of, and some of them may come as a surprise.

• Excess Stress

• Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications

• Excessive Exercise

The Heroic Role of Antioxidants

The key ingredient, by far, to reducing the amount of free radicals in your system is antioxidants. Antioxidants are fantastic little substances that wander through your body, giving up an electron to the greedy free radicals charging through your system. They neutralise the free radicals and allow your body to do its business of excreting them safely and without harm.

Our bodies already make several different types of antioxidants all on their own. But as our exposure to harmful free radicals in the environment and through our lifestyles increase, our need for outside supplies of antioxidants is vital in the war against aging and degenerative disease.

Increasingly, through harmful growing practices and soil depletion, and can no longer be relied upon to protect us from the oxidative stress all around us.

With a healthy supply of free-radical-neutralising antioxidants, you can see how our bodies are better able to withstand and ward off the "rusting" for decades longer than we currently do.