Antioxidant Selenium activates thyroid hormones
Ultratrace mineral selenium is required in very small amounts in our body. It not only acts as an antioxidant, but is also very important in the activation of thyroid hormone.
Antioxidants
Iron the oxygen carrier
Iron is essential to our health as an oxygen (and carbon dioxide) carrier in the blood cell protein hemoglobin. Iron is one of those substances that can be dangerous if too much, or if too little.
Alpha-Carotene can be made into Vitamin A but is a co-factor for other substances
Alpha carotene is found in carrots, peppers and other plants. Alpha Carotene may be important in the prevention of cervical cancer but it is also a source of vitamin A, since it can be converted by our body.
Beta-Carotene is a powerful antioxidant used to make vitamin A
Beta Carotene is used by the body to make vitamin A. If you don’t get enough beta carotene your body can get vitamin A from other foods, like oily fish.
Aspartame (E951)
Aspartame (E951) is a very common sweetner. If you listen to some people, it’s a major cause of cancer. Read the truth about Aspartame.
Vitamin B5 is used to make coenzyme A which is needed for hormones and other substances 1
B5 deficiencies were common in prisoners of war in the second world war but quite rare these days as it is found in a lot of different foods. Unless you live on burger, fries & cola, you probably don’ have anything to worry about. But what does vitamin B5 do in the body? Read on to find out.
Biotin (vitamin B7) an enzyme co-factor
Biotin is one of the vitamins most people have not heard of. Even by the common name of B7, people still scratch their heads. Biotin is a necessary to help many of the bodies enzymes carry out their functions. Making, storing and releasing energy are three important uses for this co-enzyme.
Vitamin A a multi-functional, essential vitamin.
Vitamin A is extremely important for a number of reasons most notably the maintenance and growth of membranes (including the retina of the eye), but it is also a toxic vitamin in high doses. Read how early artic explorers and their dogs faced death when eating the vitamin A rich livers of polar bears.
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) more than just an antioxidant
If you don’t have enough vitamin B2, your body can’t use vitamin A, folic acid, or vitamin B6, and it can’t make vitamin B3 (niacin). Deficiency in vitamin B3 is extremely deleterious to your health.
Multipurpose Manganese acts as co-factor, antioxidant and more
Manganese is one mineral you are unlikely to have to supplement in your diet. It is involved in many enzyme reactions as it is a co-factor required by the enzyme. It is involved in removing free radicals as well as regulation of sugar release from muscle and liver tissue.
What are antioxidants and free radicals?
Antioxidants are chemicals that can clean up rogue free radicals in the body. In doing so, they remove potentially harmful free radicals from circulation. However, not all free radicals are bad, and not all antioxidants are good.
PQQ (pyrroloquinolone quinone) – the new vitamin involved in energy production 5
PQQ is a powerful antioxidant that helps the mitochondria in the body create energy. PQQ clears up any free radicals, but also controls the mitochondria, letting them know when it’s safe to make more energy.
Vitamin C – the scurvy vitamin that acts as a powerful antioxidant
Vitamin C is the vitamin we think of when we think of oranges or lemons, but truth be told, you can get a far higher dose of this vitamin from a lot of vegetables. Vitamin C is an antioxidant that mops up free radicals in the body, but it does so much more.
Vitamin E – a potent antioxidant
Vitamin E is the free-radical vitamin cleaning up 99.9% of free radicals formed when the body takes in toxic substances.