Antioxidants: Our Natural Protectors
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Antioxidants protect us. They are our bodies natural defences against oxidant agents that damage or destroy our tissues, initiating disease and accelerating normal aging.
Antioxidants protect us. They are our bodies natural defences against oxidant agents that damage or destroy our tissues, initiating disease and accelerating normal aging. Our defence team of antioxidants includes enzymes, minerals and nutrients such as vitamins C and E, coenzyme Q
10, alpha-lipoic acid, glutathione, taurine, carotenoids and flavonoids.
Whenever these antioxidant defences are breached, whether through mineral or nutrient deficiencies, or simply excessive oxidative challenge, oxidative reactions self-propagate and explode out of control, mutating DNA, crippling enzymes and disrupting membranes. As cells disintegrate, oxidative products leak out of cells to travel around the body and attack at other sites. As they escape antioxidant restraints, oxidativ
The Martha s Vineyard Times
Naming West Tisburyâs streets
Who were Nabs, Mott, Nat, and Hopps?
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West Tisbury father-and-son farmers Orin Look, left, and Davis Look, right, for whom Davis Look Road (sometimes called Orin Look Road) is named, seen here in an early 20th-century north shore picnic with Lois Luce and others. â Courtesy Chris Baer
Approaching West Tisbury center, circa 1893, from the Chilmark side. â Courtesy Chris Baer
State Road, West Tisbury, c. 1893. The old North Tisbury post office (no longer extant) is visible on the right; on the left is property later owned by Forrest Bosworth. â Courtesy Chris Baer
What They re Not Telling You: 4 Natural Ways to Fight Ebola
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October 10, 2014
October 10, 2014
Amid the mainstream media hype surrounding Ebola, it may come as major shock to discover that for quite some time there
have been major scientific breakthroughs regarding the numerous ways in which we may be able to diminish or even halt the virus at a base level. What’s even more powerful and of note, however, is the substances by which scientists were able to exhibit these effects. Numerous plant compounds, which also come with a host of additional medicinal benefits outside of their role in the fight against the Ebola virus, have been documented to have extreme promise in the deterrence of yet another virus epidemic.