Oxidative Stress
What is Oxidative Stress?
Before and after oxidation procces.
Scientists agree that ageing and age-associated diseases are the result of cellular deterioration due to destructive molecules called Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), which are produced in cells as a result of the own metabolism.
With more and more ROS produced in our cells, it is noteworthy that our internal defences are overwhelmed and the equilibrium is broken in favour of ROS. That is what is called OXIDATIVE STRESS, the same process that causes RUST.
In a sense, AGEING is your body’s way of RUSTING from the inside out!
Oxidative stress caused by ROS plays an important role in ageing and age-associated degenerative diseases. With these constant attacks by free radicals, it’s easy to see how the body gets worn down. So, decreasing ROS is essential to guarantee a healthy ageing process.
In a sense, AGEING is your body’s way of RUSTING from the inside out!
Oxidative stress caused by ROS plays an important role in ageing and age-associated degenerative diseases. With these constant attacks by free radicals, it’s easy to see how the body gets worn down. So, decreasing ROS is essential to guarantee a healthy ageing process.
How Oxidative Stress is produced?
The oxidative stress is continuosly produced in our body. In fact, there are millions of processes taking place in our bodies at this moment that can result in oxidative damage. When we age, our body has more and more problems to control this overrun process.
Why is Oxidative Stress a problem?
There are over 200 chronic diseases in peer-reviewed scientific studies linked to oxidative stress. Some of the health challenges associated with oxidative stress include: cardiovascular disease, both male and female infertility syndromes, hearing loss, chronic inflammatory diseases (like bowel disease), cognitive impairment due to ageing brain, joint diseases associated with pain and inflammation, skin pathologies, and more.
Indeed, genetic mutations and manipulations that confer resistance to oxidative stress also cause extended life-span as scientist have discovered. Thus, interventions aimed at decreasing free radicals are essential to guarantee a healthy ageing process.
How to reduce Oxidative Stress?
The first shield against oxidative is the superoxide dismutase (SOD) enzyme. Ubiquitous to all forms of life exposed to oxygen, SOD has been protecting living beings from oxidation for over 2 billion years.
SOD plays a critical role in preventing oxidative stress: it is the most important antioxidant agent able to control the production of ROS and to prevent cell oxidation.
Antioxidant enzymes (also called “primary antioxidants”) have high catalytic properties and are involved in the elimination of millions of free radicals. On the contrary, classical antioxidants (also called “secondary antioxidants”) quench only one free radical and are quickly exhausted, needing additional enzymes for renewal.
Studies of Oxidative Stress: did you know that…?
TetraSOD® is an activator of the transcription factor Nrf2. Recent studies have stated that the activation of Nrf2 pathway is the clue to restore the balance between ROS and cellular defences because is the key switch/shift for maintaining the proper antioxidant status of the cell. Nrf2 is known to activate hundred of genes, most of them involved in cytoprotective functions, stimulating endogenous production of SOD, CAT and GPx. SOD is an active ingredient that reacts against ROS and remains active to react with other ROS, neutralizing up to 1 million free radicals/s.
So, wouldn’t it be far more efficient to treat the core cellular driver of all of these health challenges rather than using medicines to individually treat one by one?
In fact, there are actually a growing number of scientists & consumers who believe this and are switching to this approach!
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