Boost your antioxidant LEVEL and maintain your health with these supplements from Holland & Barrett
Building up your antioxidant level is essential to help your body prevent damage to the cells caused by free radicals.
Free radicals occur when the cell molecules break up causing weakness and instability. Each free radical, clings onto the nearest healthy molecule and causes it to become a free radical as well, causing a chain reaction.
Taking the right supplements can help slow and prevent free radicals from taking over and damaging the body.
What Are Antioxidants
Antioxidants are believed to play a role in preventing the development of chronic and degenerative diseases such as cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and macular degeneration.
Free radicals are natural by-products and cause no problems if kept in balance with antioxidants neutralising them. Our antioxidant systems are not perfect. As we age, damage of body cells by oxidation accumulates and we need more antioxidants to fight the free radicals.
Well-known foods with antioxidant properties are oranges, berries and grapes.
50mg, rapid release capsules
Grapeseed Extract
Holland & Barrett’s Grapeseed Extract contains proanthocyandins (OPCs), a group of flavonoids found in pine bark, grape seed, grape skin, bilberry, cranberry, black currant, green tea, black tea and other plants that have shown to strengthen capillaries in double-blind research, using as little as two 50mg tablets a day.
French researchers reported reduced symptoms in women with chronic venous insufficiency – a condition where the veins cannot pump oxygen-poor blood back into the heart – with a total of 150mg a day.
100mg, rapid release capsules
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Their Alpha Lipoic Acid supplement is a powerful natural antioxidant. Trials have found that supplementing with 600-1200mg of lipoic acid a day improves symptoms of diabetic nerve damage. In a preliminary study, supplementing with 600mg of alpha lipoic acid a day for 18 months slowed the progression of kidney damage in people with Type 1 diabetes.
60mg, with Citrus Bioflavonoids, rapid release capsules
Pycnogenol
Holland & Barrett also has Pycnogenol, a high quality maritime pine bark extract sourced from pine trees found in sustainable forests in the southwest of France. It naturally has OPCs and can help with hypertension by reducing diastolic blood pressure and improving some measures of kidney function in hypertensive patients.
Who Needs Antioxidants
Almost everyone and anyone needs antioxidants in their diet. People who especially need antioxidants include those with stressful, busy lifestyles, or who are exposed to a polluted environment, or flight attendants who are constantly exposed to UV radiation, or smokers, or even athletes, as exercise can increase free radical activity.
People on restricted diets or who have poor diets are also in need of antioxidants.
To ensure sufficient consumption of this important health supplement, head down to one of Holland & Barrett’s 23 outlets including at CityLink Mall, #B1-51, 313@Somerset, #B3-08, VivoCity, #B2-27A or Wisma Atria, #B1-47 to get some today.
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