Start with complete free radical protection with the network of nine antioxidants in protect. By reducing the ravages of free radicals, you immediately slow the aging process and in the process reap these benefits: reduced susceptibility to all degenerative diseases, improved immunity, as the overall body is stronger, improved energy and improved ability to deal with stress. You will look and feel better today and maintain your youth longer with protect.

Antioxidants to the Rescue

So we've determined that free radicals are a major cause of aging and other degenerative diseases. But avoiding free radicals is impossible for most people in today's stressful and pollution-filled world, so there has to be another solution. And there is one - free radical quenchers, or antioxidants as they are more commonly known.

Antioxidants are molecules that can donate electrons to free radicals without becoming free radicals themselves. This stops the chain reaction of the free radical. The body can and does produce its own antioxidants (glutathione being the primary one). However, with the additional load of environmental toxins and the affects of stress, the body cannot keep up. Enter supplements - both those that are antioxidants themselves and those that aid the body in its own production (antioxidant precursors).

Network Antioxidants - The Latest Science

There is now scientific evidence from Dr. Lester Packer and the prestigious Lawrence Berkley Laboratory that specific antioxidants work together to form a complete barrier against free radical damage. In essence, they regenerate each other as they battle free radicals creating their own positive chain reaction.

protect has been formulated based on this network theory. Since being presented to the United Nations and World Health Organization's First Joint Conference on Healthy Aging, this theory has been considered a real breakthrough in antioxidant research. By providing your body with a network of antioxidants you are ensuring that even if the body is deficient in one antioxidant, the system will remain strong as a whole, and thus defense against free radicals remains in place.

We've heard so much about free radicals and antioxidants in the last few years that these words have become part of our everyday language. We take our Vitamin C, our Vitamin E, and our Beta Carotene and hope to prevent the accumulation of free radicals in the body and thus limit the damage they can cause.

But what if we could take one single supplement that was a combination of these key ingredients and others for better protection than any other single or multiple antioxidant on the market? Fewer bottles and pills to deal with, less money to spend and more benefits sounds like the ideal situation. With the launch of protect we make this a reality for Canadian consumers like you. Based on new antioxidant research and developed in conjunction with nutritional researcher Brad King, author of the books Fat Wars and Bio-Age, protect is the logical solution to a much-talked about problem.

With protect you will reduce the damage caused by free radicals and in doing so experience immediate and long-term health benefits. Slow the aging process, improve your immunity and your energy levels and look and feel younger, longer. Safely, naturally and without side effects. protect is for anyone at any age who wants to shield themselves from excess free radical damage.

What Exactly Are Free Radicals?

Free radicals are atoms that have an unpaired electron. They steal electrons from other atoms to solve this problem. This of course creates more free radicals on the hunt for their own electrons and so on. A chain reaction begins which only stops when a molecule can donate an electron to a free radical without becoming a dangerous free radical itself.

In the body, free radicals can damage almost all of our cells and contribute to the occurrence of the degenerative diseases of aging such as cardiovascular problems, respiratory disorders and cataracts. As we age, the free radical load builds up and breakdown of the body occurs more quickly.

Where Do Free Radicals Come From?

The sources of free radicals are almost infinite in today's world. They are found in food additives, environmental chemicals, pollutants, tobacco, and pesticides. But they are also produced by the body as a byproduct of normal functions such as energy production and the use of oxygen. Stress causes the body to create free radicals. And in an effort to rid the body of A.G.E. (Advanced Glycation Endproducts) the body actually produces free radicals. (To learn more about A.G.E. and how to prevent them, see our A.G.E inhibitors product info.) When you add all these sources of free radicals together, the load to the body becomes extreme and problems begin to arise.

Vitamin E - Why it May Not be Enough

To give you an example of the network antioxidants in action, let's look at Vitamin E. This nutrient is one of today's most popular antioxidants and is extremely beneficial. But if you take Vitamin E alone, you may not be reaping its maximum benefits.

As an antioxidant, Vitamin E can donate an electron to a free radical without becoming one in the process and thus ends the chain reaction. But once an atom of Vitamin E has donated an electron, it becomes inactivated and cannot neutralize more free radicals. This means that each atom of Vitamin E attacks and neutralizes one, and only one, free radical.

protect extends the lifespan of Vitamin E through the regeneration effect of the other ingredients. Alpha Lipoic Acid, Selenium, NAC and CoQ10 all regenerate Vitamin E so an atom can go on to neutralize more free radicals. As a result, the antioxidant effect is extended and free radical protection is greater in both time and quantity. This is the same result you would get if you took higher doses of Vitamin E more frequently, but with no danger of taking too much and in a far more economical and convenient manner.

The above scenario can similarly be applied to Vitamin C, another very popular single nutrient. Get the most from your antioxidants by taking them together in protect.

The Synergy of protect

protect is unique, convenient, cost effective and provides a synergistic blend of antioxidants for full free radical protection. We searched the globe for the best ingredients and research in formulating protect to ensure you the highest quality and most effective product available today. Try it and see your quality of life improve now and stay that way as you age.

The Benefits of protect

By reducing the ravages of free radicals, you immediately slow the aging process and in the process reap these benefits: