Aging is the accumulation of body changes that affects the
length of the human body’s functional existence. Science today has
linked premature aging to our exposure to toxic metals and chemicals
which are in every aspect of our lives today. Various factors cause the
body to deteriorate, including injuries that do not heal completely,
toxic heavy metals and chemicals, allergies, poor nutrition, stress, and
inactivity.
People worldwide today are concerned with healthy aging and
longevity due to the increase of degenerative diseases we all face
today. Without the diseases of premature aging, normal human life
expectancy is estimated to be 120 years. Most people are capable of
living their lives without pain and suffering caused by such chronic
degenerative diseases.
Unfortunately, conventional medical care has focused more on
symptom relief with pain medications and surgical procedures and less on
reversing the accelerated aging process, which is potentially more
effective over the long term. If premature aging can be halted and
normal function reestablished, then people not only will live longer but
also will have a higher quality of life with the elimination of pain.
Premature aging of the brain, circulation, heart, joints, skin,
digestive tract, and immune system can begin at any time of life.
Toxic Metals Cause Cellular Oxidation & Free Radicals
In nature, oxygen will easily snatch electrons from molecules.
When molecules give up electrons, this is called oxidation. Because most
everything in nature is exposed to oxygen, most everything in nature
undergoes the process of oxidation.
Basically, things exposed to oxygen oxidize. To give you a good
example of this process, just think about a hunk of iron left out in
the back yard. Over a period of a few weeks, that iron will have a thin
coating of rust on its surface. How did that happen? Essentially the
electrons in the molecules of iron freely gave themselves up to the
oxygen around them.
Well guess what? We breathe oxygen. And over time we oxidize -
or you could say we rust. Though we don’t necessarily turn brown with
actual rust, we do get age spots, gray hair, wrinkles, aches and pains
and are subject to various disease processes. This is evidence of
oxidation - part of the aging process.
Oxidation is a natural chemical process that occurs in all
cells. However, uncontrolled oxidation is harmful to cells and can kill
them. Most anti-cancer treatments, from radiation therapy to
chemotherapy, produce oxidative events to kill cancer cells.
Free radicals are a type of highly reactive molecule that
causes oxidation in cells. Cells generally make proteins, known as
antioxidants that have the ability to “mop up” the harmful free radicals
and thus prevent injury to the cell.
Heavy metals in your body multiply those free radicals chain
reactions several thousands, possibly several million times. When a free
radical molecule hits a metal atom in your body, the effect is
multiplied many-fold. This is why it is so important to remove toxic
metals from your body with Kelatox®.
Oxidation in the human body is associated with little molecules
known as free radicals. When atoms come together, they form molecules.
How those molecules are formed is through the joining together of the
atom electrons. Electrons like to be in pairs. If something comes along
(like oxygen) and strips an electron off this molecule, that molecule
now has a free, unpaired electron. Now this makes for a very unhappy
little electron because it is missing its partner. It now behaves very
radical-hence the name free radical. When this happens in the body, that
free radical will look to find an electron anywhere it can. If it finds
one on a good cell, it will snatch an electron from that cell, damaging
it in the process and thereby creating another free radical. This
process is repeated in infinitum until the free radical meets up with a
molecule that has an extra electron that it can donate to the equation
to stop the reaction.
It’s impossible to be alive and not have some oxidative damage,
because free radicals are produced by normal processes in the body,
such as the production of energy and immune function. Free radicals also
come from environmental sources including heavy metals, household
chemicals, ultraviolet radiation, tobacco smoke, food additives, foods
that have been fried in oil that’s been used over and over again
(typical in many fast-food restaurants), and other pollutants. Once free
radicals are released, they will multiply exponentially in chain
reactions, unless they are stopped by antioxidants.
The more toxic metals in your body, the higher the free radical
activity.
Healthy aging can be accomplished by:
In nature, oxygen will easily snatch electrons from molecules.
When molecules give up electrons, this is called oxidation. Because most
everything in nature is exposed to oxygen, most everything in nature
undergoes the process of oxidation. Basically, things exposed to oxygen
become oxidized. To give you a good example of this process, just think
about a scrap of iron left out in the back yard. Over a period of a few
weeks, that iron will have a thin coating of rust on its surface. And
this is the process of oxidation.
Now take that idea into the context of human physiology. We
breathe oxygen, and over time, we oxidize — or you could say we rust.
Though we don’t necessarily turn brown with actual rust, we do get age
spots, gray hair, wrinkles, aches and pains, and are subject to various
disease processes. This is evidence of oxidation — part of the aging
process.
Oxidation in the human body is associated with little molecules
known as free radicals. When atoms come together, they form molecules.
How those molecules are formed is through the joining together of the
atom electrons. Electrons like to be in pairs. If something comes along
(like oxygen) and strips an electron off this molecule, that molecule
now has a free, unpaired electron. Now this makes for a very unhappy
little electron because it is missing its partner. It now behaves very
radically — hence the name free radical. When this happens in the body,
that free radical will look for an electron anywhere it can. If it finds
one on a good cell, it will snatch an electron from that cell, damaging
it in the process and thereby creating another free radical. This
process is repeated continually until the free radical meets up with a
molecule that has an extra electron that it can donate to the equation,
to stop the reaction.
