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ANTIOXIDANT EXTRACTS
Many people think "extracts" when they think about getting more antioxidants. The supplement aisle, however, is not the only place to find these important compounds. Better places include the produce section, the frozen fruit and vegetable section and the whole grains section of your supermarket. Why? Because the foods in these sections come packaged with other complementary nutrients and phytochemicals. They can provide better insurance than supplements that you're getting the antioxidants you need in the right amount and form. Here are some good food sources of the six most studied antioxidants.
Garlic Extracts - Sniffing Out the Truth About Garlic:
We get a lot of queries about garlic—that pungent, delicious (to some people) member of the onion family. Garlic has been in humanity’s medicine chest for centuries, and modern investigators have taken it seriously, too.
What healthful compounds does garlic contain?
It’s hard to say. Like all members of the onion family, garlic contains a sulfur compound called allicin, released only when the clove is crushed or cut and allowed to stand for 10 minutes. This (and the compounds it converts into) is what gives these vegetables their strong taste and smell, and is what’s thought to be beneficial. It’s a now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t situation, however. The enzyme that forms allicin (and other sulfur compounds) is destroyed by heating; and allicin converts quickly to other compounds. But maybe the heat turns some of these compounds into beneficial substances. Then again, none of these may be the healthful component, if there is one.
What good is garlic, if its health benefits are so hard to verify?
If you enjoy it, garlic makes other good foods savory. It is a wonderful addition to cooked meats and vegetables. Many people like it raw in salads, salad dressings, and other foods, but raw garlic is likely to irritate the mouth and stomach lining. The odor is pungent and long-lasting—and may limit your social contacts if you’re among people who haven’t also eaten raw garlic.
Flax Seed Extracts
Bottom Line: Flaxseed oil is heart-healthy because it contains alpha-linolenic acid. Flaxseed itself (ground or whole) also contains lignans, which may have antioxidant actions and may help protect against certain cancers, though this is far from certain. Skip flaxseed supplements, though.
The flax plant, an ancient crop, yields the fiber from which linen is woven, as well as seeds and oil. The oil, also called linseed oil, has many industrial uses—it is an important ingredient in paints, varnishes, and linoleum, for example. Flaxseed oil also comes in an edible form, sold mostly at health-food stores. Like olive, canola, and most other plant oils, it is highly unsaturated and heart-healthy. And flaxseeds have yet another very interesting component—lignans—which may have anti-cancer properties.
Lignans are a type of fiber, and at the same time a type of phytoestrogen—a chemical similar to the human hormone estrogen. Flaxseeds are the richest source of lignans. When you eat lignans, bacteria in the digestive tract convert them into estrogen-like substances called enterodiol and enterolactone, which are thought to have anti-tumor effects. Lignans and other flaxseed components may also have antioxidant properties—that is, they may reduce the activity of cell-damaging free radicals. (Flaxseed oil lacks lignans, but some processors add them to their oil.
Vitamin C Extracts
Also called ascorbic acid, vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin found in all body fluids, so it may be one of our first lines of defense. This powerful antioxidant cannot be stored by the body, so it's important to get some regularly -- not a difficult task if you eat fruits and vegetables. Important sources include citrus fruits, green peppers, broccoli, green leafy vegetables, strawberries, raw cabbage and potatoes.
Vitamin E Extracts
A fat-soluble vitamin that can be stored with fat in the liver and other tissues, vitamin E is promoted for a range of purposes -- from delaying aging to healing sunburn. While it's not a miracle worker, it's another powerful antioxidant. Important sources include wheat germ, nuts, seeds, whole grains, green leafy vegetables, vegetable oil and fish-liver oil.
Beta-carotene Extracts
The most studied of more than 600 different carotenoids that have been discovered, beta-carotene protects dark green, yellow and orange vegetables and fruits from solar radiation damage. It is thought that it plays a similar role in the body. Carrots, squash, broccoli, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, kale, collards, cantaloupe, peaches and apricots are particularly rich sources of beta-carotene.
Selenium Extracts
This mineral is thought to help fight cell damage by oxygen-derived compounds and thus may help protect against cancer. It is best to get selenium through foods, as large doses of the supplement form can be toxic. Good food sources include fish, shellfish, red meat, grains, eggs, chicken and garlic. Vegetables can also be a good source if grown in selenium-rich soils.
For the past three years our research team at Sharp Labs Inc. has been watching the outcome of many placebos for various tests on many so claimed "Super Antioxidants". We know now so much more about what vitamins and minerals work as true antioxidants for our immune system and what vitamin co factors work well together with regard to antioxidant performance. We are proud to offer our best antioxidant formula yet. "Cell Protect" is a super antioxidant formula that is dynamic and keeps changing with modern research results. We keep our formula top notch for only the best in aiding your diet for immune system boosting power.
For instance did you know this?
 Vitamin A has been ruled out as a super antioxidant in high doses and can actually be harmful and increase
cancer risk especially in smokers. Vitamin A in small doses such as in "Cell Protect" although works well with Vitamin E and other vitamins.
 Flax Seed extracts have had good results while being tested for antioxidant performance.
 Garlic is quickly becoming our most exciting antioxidant ingredient yet amd tests have shown that garlic
is all good and has no bad side effects. Garlic powder extract will be released in our newest "Cell Protect"
formula being released shortly.
 Vitamin C can be used in large amounts and not be harmful but our bodies will only process set amounts for what it needs. We know this and apply this formula to the production of our super "Cell Protect" antioxidant supplement.
This is just a brief description of some facts that we have researched and uncovered throughout our antioxidant and immune system studies and hope you will choose "Cell Protect" as your daily antioxidant supplement. We offer you only the finest and purest extracts and strains in all of our supplements!
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