Antioxidants are our body’s front line defense against free radicals. When we breathe, we take in oxygen and free radicals. Free radicals are atoms that have at least one unpaired electron, thus making them unstable and highly reactive. Free radicals then roam throughout the body causing damage to our cells, by stealing stable electron partners from other cells, causing more free radicals and instability. This cell damage can impair our body’s ability to fight against illness.

Antioxidant nutrients protect against this oxidative by making the free radicals stable. Our bodies naturally produce some antioxidant compounds but not enough. Research has shown that plants and seeds also need antioxidant protection, thus they are a great source of antioxidants.

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