by Lawrence Wilson, MD

ANTI-OXIDANTS AND ANTI-OXIDANT THERAPY

Many people want to take more antioxidants on their nutritional balancing program. In fact, it is not necessary and it is harmful. Here are the reasons why:

1. The program already includes many anti-oxidant nutrients - over 100 - in the form of a diet consisting of 70% cooked vegetables. Also, the supplements usually have even more of the basic anti-oxidants, such as vitamin A, C, E, selenium and perhaps others.

People in a fast oxidizer or a 4-lows pattern cannot take many of the supplements above. These substances, and most other anti-oxidants, will interfere the balancing of their body chemistry and we cannot afford that. When the chemistry changes, which it usually does quickly, then they can be added to the program, but not before or the person will not progress well.

2. Anti-oxidant nutrients are almost all very yin in Chinese medical terminology. It is also a yin that is quite harmful, in fact, to the yin-yang balance of the body. This interferes significantly with the program and makes one worse, in fact.

3. Too many anti-oxidants are bad for health. This is known. There is a proper balance and many people overdo with too much vitamin C, methionine, cysteine, alpha-lipoic acid, quercitin, berry extracts, resveratrol, noni juice, acai berries, goji berries, and many others. It is easy to overdo on them, in fact, but few researchers teaches that bit of truth. Oxidation and anti-oxidation are always a balance and one must maintain the balance of the body chemistry suffers.

4. Most anti-oxidant therapy is therefore mainly a symptomatic nutritional approach. We do our best to avoid this approach as it is totally inadequate, often unbalances the body, creates dependency and does little or nothing to really improve one's deeper health level. It is fine for the short term, but that is all it is - a kind of Band-aid therapy that really does not work well at all in the long run. Instead, it is best to balance the body, including the oxidant and anti-oxidant aspects of body chemistry. This is a goal of nutritional balancing science.

5. Nutritional balancing goes far beyond just taking anti-oxidants by removing the causes completely and permanently in most cases. Here is how it is done. One must remove oxidized forms of minerals that float around the body, and one must remove at least two dozen toxic metals and hundreds of toxic chemicals from the body.

The amigos. We call some of the minerals that are the culprits in oxidative damage "the amigos". These include oxidized forms of iron, manganese, aluminum, and often other minerals such as copper, calcium, magnesium, nickel, boron, vanadium and even chromium and selenium. Some, such as copper, actually destroy vitamin C and perhaps other important anti-oxidant nutrients within the body.

The amigos are among the actual cause of too much oxidation. When these oxidized forms of minerals are removed, along with other toxins that cause the problem, the need for anti-oxidants diminishes significantly.

In fact, once they are removed, one can easily overdo on anti-oxidant nutrients, which just unbalances the body severely. To read more about the amigos, read Iron, Manganese And Aluminum And Other Amigos on this website.

6. Other aspects of nutritional balancing programs also deal with the problem of anti-oxidants on a deeper level. These include:

a. The use of a Near Infrared Sauna. This can dramatically improve circulation, oxygenation and hydration of the tissues, and this can often stop some oxidant damage.

b. Coffee enemas. This also seems to have many anti-oxidant effects, even beyond the several anti-oxidant nutrients in the coffee itself. Anything that benefits the liver often helps with oxidative damage.

c. The Ozonator/Ionizer air purifier we suggest, placed in the bedroom, adds oxygen to the body in a gentle manner. It does not appear to cause more oxidant damage, but in fact helps remove damaging toxins that cause oxidant damage.

d. Making the body more yang helps reduce oxidant damage, it appear.

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