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Top 5 Health Benefits of Zinc

Posted by Dan Hammer //

03/15/2021

Zinc is a key mineral for optimal health. Because of this we want to look at the health benefits of zinc.

This mineral is needed for proper immune function, wound healing, bone health, metabolism, and DNA synthesis.

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Because your body can’t produce or store it, zinc is considered an essential nutrient. This means you need a daily consumption of it through either diet or supplementation.

The normal RDI is 11 mg for men and 8 mg for women.

Because zinc is present in every cell, it’s the second most abundant trace mineral in your body. Needed for over 300 different enzymatic reactions, zinc helps with the following:

The production of more than 90,000 enzymes.
Repairs and strengthens proteins, especially hemoglobin.
Helps with digestion and absorption of calcium.
Responsible for transporting amino acids and magnesium through the cell membranes.
Important for proper blood flow and growth of new red blood cells.
Essential for healthy skin, hair, and nails.
Helps the body absorb magnesium, vitamin A, vitamin E, and vitamins B2 and B12.
And Zinc is a powerful antioxidant, which gives it anti-inflammatory properties.

That’s just a small sampling of the health benefits of zinc. Which brings us to the 5 key benefits. Read More →

Health Benefits of Lycopene

Posted by Dan Hammer //

01/22/2021

If you are a fan of tomatoes, watermelon, and pink grapefruit, then you’re enjoying multiple health benefits of lycopene.

Lycopene is the pigment in fruits and vegetables that make them red in color. This red pigment is part of the carotenoid family, which includes beta-carotene and lutein.

Lycopene is a very powerful antioxidant or free radical scavenger. And can provide the following benefits.

Antioxidant Health Benefits of Lycopene

As I’ve shared in previous articles, free radicals are unstable molecules that steal electrons from another molecule to stabilize themselves. This action creates a new free radical that then repeats this process. It finally stops when the last free radical steals an electron from a cell wall. This results in inflammation.

Antioxidants are your natural defense against this process.

Antioxidants are molecules that give away one of their outer electrons, which then stabilizes the free radical. The remarkable property of an antioxidant is that it does not become a free radical. It remains stable with or without the electron it gives away.

This means that antioxidants like lycopene can protect you from cellular damage. And significantly reduce the potential for inflammation. This makes the following health benefits of lycopene possible: Read More →

Slowing The Aging Process With Fisetin

Posted by Dan Hammer //

01/08/2021

Slowing the aging process is relative to your age. When we are young we really don’t think about it. But once we hit the age of 35, and our bodies begin to decline in their health, the idea of slowing the aging process begins to enter our thoughts.

For many, once they reach the age of 60 they really begin to look for ways to help extend their life with good health.

There is a class of compounds called senolytics that have been used in experimental models to improve health and extend the lifespan.

One new compound that has shown great promise is fisetin. This is a flavonoid found in various fruits and vegetables like strawberries, apples, grapes, and onions.

In animal studies, fisetin has extending lifespan by approximately 10 percent.

Senolytic compounds like fisetin help your body clear away old and damaged cells to make room for new and healthy cells.

This removal of old and damaged cells is critical to your overall health because: Read More →

The Power of ORAC!

Posted by Dan Hammer //

10/22/2020

If you don’t know about the power of ORAC to help you fight free radical damage, then it’s time that you learned. Free radical damage is one of the leading causes of inflammation and contributes to the aging process.

So let’s start with a definition.

ORAC is an acronym for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. That’s just a fancy way of measuring how effective a food is in delivering needed antioxidants to help your body fight free radical damage.

The ORAC Value is the number assigned to a food and represent its ability to provide antioxidants. The higher the ORAC value, the greater the number of antioxidants that food can provide.

Currently, the United States Department of Agriculture recommends a diet of fruits and vegetables that will allow you to consume between 3,000 to 5,000 ORAC units per day. This will help you maintain an optimal level of antioxidant protection.

Learning how to apply the ORAC value of foods is one of the most effective tools you can use to slow down the aging process. And help your body prevent degenerative diseases.

There are several key factors that cause our body to age. Free radical damage is one of them. Not only does it cause us to age prematurely, but it’s also a leading contributor to inflammation and the development of degenerative diseases.

Just the act of respiration to produce energy creates free radicals. Add in environmental factors, cooking techniques, and unhealthy habits like smoking, and your body is bombarded every second by thousands of unstable molecules called “free radicals.”

To become stable each free radical will steal an electron from another atom or molecule resulting in a new free radical, which then repeats the process. Eventually, this chain reaction ends when free radicals steal their electrons from your body’s cells causing cellular damage. Over time this results in, or greatly contributes to, the development of most diseases.

Antioxidants are one of the keys to stopping free radical damage. They are molecules that freely give away an electron and remain stable after they do so. This effectively stops the chain reaction and spares your body’s cells from potential damage.

And while fruits and vegetables can be powerful sources of antioxidants, wouldn’t it be useful to know which ones provide the greatest antioxidant protection or ORAC score? Read More →