Healing by Design by Scott Hannen

Author:Scott Hannen [Scott Hannen, DC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2011-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

UNDERSTANDING ANTIOXIDANTS

My search for answers to those questions listed above drove me to begin studying the immune system and how to strengthen it against the destructive effects of oxidation and other forces. In my search, I began to study a classification of compounds called antioxidants. Just as the rust was formed on the weather-exposed steel as a result of oxidation, so human cells can be destroyed when they are exposed to the environment with no protection. Antioxidants form a protective layering around the cell so that agents or contaminants cannot harm the cell.

We prove this principle every time we sprinkle ascorbic acid powder (vitamin C powder) on fruits and vegetables to keep them from oxidizing, or turning brown. Zinc is another antioxidant that can be sprayed on a steel pole to keep it from rusting. Zinc creates a protective layer around the pole so that oxidation cannot occur. In the same way, when you put antioxidants inside your body, they insulate the cells and form a protective barrier around them against harmful invaders. If you learn to insulate the basic unit of life—the cell—you can possibly keep it protected from anything that will destroy it or make it vulnerable to disease. As you keep it safe and healthy, you increase resistance to disease for the whole body.

Increasing the resistance of a cell is called giving it immunity. This means the cell has become immune to its harmful environment. The more you protect the cell, the better your body’s immunity becomes. In other words, your body will have the ability to resist harmful organisms, viruses, and bacteria. And the good news is that these natural antioxidant compounds that give your cells immunity don’t cause harmful side effects.

When you are not producing healthy cells, you are prematurely aging. Aging sooner than you should is caused simply by a literal breakdown of cellular health. Your cells are dying, and you are aging. The faster your cells break down, the faster you age.

Antioxidants slow down or reverse the aging process to some degree. They can insulate the cells and keep them healthier, which gives them a higher resistance and a greater immunity. Dr. Ali is one of the foremost experts in the field of alternative and integrated medicine. He was also a twenty-year pathologist in a hospital in Miami and is a very highly respected author. While I was attending postgraduate studies at Capital University of Integrated Medicine, during a lecture he stated boldly that he believes virtually all disease stems from free-radical damage. The more I study the body, nutrition, and nutrition’s effect on the body, the more I am convinced that he may be right!4 Disease is a result of the cell breaking down and becoming vulnerable in any area of the body or any organ where it is formed. If cells are dying in any area, that cell or system or part of the body becomes diseased.

Understanding that our cells are vulnerable to breakdown or death, and knowing that there are

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