So today I want to touch on the antioxidant network, okay, you may have heard of antioxidants in free radicals

I just want to explain simply how it all works in a very simplistic

presentation, okay, so a free radical is a

An atom with an unpaired electron basically if you envision a little spinning disc, okay, with two weights on it

If you take one of the weights off you're gonna see this little

non-symmetrical spinning

disc and it's going to be lopsided. It's not going to be very very

Smooth, it's going to be a radic, right? So that would be a free radical an antioxidant is an atom that has a paired electron

So it spins nicely and it's balanced, okay, it's stable in nature

So this is very unstable and this can create a lot of damage inside your body

You can kind of think of it as rust on your car

The oxidation from the water and the oxygen it goes on there, and it's just it rests a hole in your car

I'm from Wisconsin. We have a lot of

Salt on the road and we have a lot of cars that are rested, but anyway examples of free radicals or

Occidence would be iron

Free iron like in some of the enriched foods that we consume radiation

Sugar large quantities of sugar really destroy the body

Chemicals pollution smoking vegetable oils can act as an oxidant and create free radicals

And so an antioxidant what it does is it donates it gives up one of its electrons to make this free radical stable

Now the problem is

When vitamin E for example gives up this electron it becomes unstable

It becomes a free radical, but not as severe as this, but it still becomes unstable

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