What exactly is detoxing your body? (antioxidants)?!
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What exactly is detoxing your body? (antioxidants)?
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This may sound weird, but oxygen is both necessary AND toxic to life. Oxygen is used to very slowly burn your food inside the cells of your body, and this is managed by enzymes that keep it slow, and cart off the waste products. Many enzymes require 'co-factors' (most people call them vitamins, and a few of them are made in your body from vitamins and protiens), so that they work properly.
If they do not work properly, the oxidation reactions are not passed on to a safe place, but instead 'rust' (rust is any oxidation we don't like) inappropriate bits inside your cells. Anti-oxidants are especially necessary co-factors or 'fuel additives' that keep you burning your fuel clean, without 'rust'.
What is impaired by this rust are things like your mitocondria (power plants for your cells) and sometimes your genetic material itself, sometimes the bits stored in the organelles (little chemical factories in your cell that make the substances it needs to live and perform its function), sometimes in the core of your DNA (causing degradation of cell performance, and sometimes cancer).
Taking anti-oxidants cleans up the smoke of your metabolism in your cells, it makes your liver more effective in removing toxins from your body, and it supports proper function of cells to give you health and energy, delaying aging by preventing rust.