Antioxidants

Antioxidants are substances that tend to neutralize or minimize the destructive aspects of free radicals or oxidants which have the ability to markedly damage cellular elements of the human body.Antioxidants are also used industrially to minimize the oxidative destruction of chemical substances oils and other hydrocarbon derivatives.

Although oxygen is crucial for life its metabolites can  be very destructive to many organs of the body. When iron rusts and foods spoils it is an oxidative reaction. Antioxidants are  classified into water or lipid soluble and each reacts somewhat differently. The importance of  these issues relates to their synergy or interaction with each other or how they function independently. I do not wish to get too technical but suffice it to say that combinations of antioxidants are essential to counteracting the severe metabolic reactions in the human body.

I started to develop an antioxidant formula in 1985 when I developed a Detoxification unit in my medical practice. It was a supplement to my heat chamber IV nutritional therapy and protein supplements. The process took weeks of treatment. It was very successful. By the way so called detox procedures that are touted over the internet and health food stores which use oral supplements and colonic cleansings cannot rid the body of  most toxins. These free radicals and poisons are in the intracellular and extracellular parts of the body. They are generally not in the gut.

As a board certified Ophthalmologist I had seen many cases of early and advanced cases of Macular Degeneration. After reading many European medical journals in the early 90’s I found some early writings of supplemental treatment with simple use of antioxidants. I then reformulated my antioxidant formula to include every substance that could enhance and synergize these antioxidants..This was then formulated by one of the most respected pharmaceutical company in the United States. It took a while since every thing had to be natural and organic.

I began using this antioxidant formula on selected patients with close follow-ups and retinal photographs by my retinal consultants. It worked! My patients did not lose sight and we had photographs to show lack of progressive pathology. This was used solely in the dry form of Macular Degeneration. Many of my patients are still using that supplement. Back then my professor colleagues at the medical school considered me more than weird for using “vitamins” for therapy. Today every ophthalmologist considers antioxidants a viable therapy. The trouble is most of the touted antioxidant formulas are barely adequate and made cheaply for the mass market. Check out the formulas yourself for comparison.