Do you know the difference between primary and secondary antioxidants?

by Clar8ty  | Aug 23, 2021 

Antioxidants are compounds that can prevent or slow damage to cells caused by free radicals. Did you know that there are different types of antioxidants that are more powerful with better bio-availability?

SECONDARY ANTIOXIDANTS
These come from your diet, and they perform from the “outside-in”

A healthy lifestyle includes a wide selection of fruits and vegetables, to ensure a broad range of phytonutrients to sustain life. Many sources have favorable antioxidants that can help reduce free radical activity, including those tagged ‘superfoods’. Poor absorption of these bulky molecules means they are most affective in the gut and hence play a buffering role in cellular defense.

PRIMARY ANTIOXIDANTS
These are made by your body so it’s “inside-out”

Made by the body: From a single cell at conception to the enormous number and variety that forms a human body, each has the inherent ability to ‘make its own antioxidant and detox enzymes’. Some vital nutrients can support gene expression, related our body’s ability to produce these PRIMARY Antioxidants at the source of oxidative stress inside our own cells.

PREVENT THE FIRE FROM WITHIN
In the Fireman analogy below, it’s easy to understand how an internal source of antioxidants can be more effective than an external source. Primary antioxidants (internal) instantly mobilizing multiple pathways of activity inside the cell.

PRIMARY ANTIOXDANTS
Instantly mobilizing multiple pathways of activity inside the cell, at the first sign of a small flame.

AGING, SICKNESS CHRONIC ILLNESS
Environmental toxins, aging, poor lifestyle and poor diet choices slowly diminish our cells’ ability to produce its own primary antioxidants.

IN SUMMARY
Primary antioxidant and detoxification enzymes that are made by our body are literally millions of times more powerful than anything we get in our diet. They are active at the source of oxidative stress inside our cells.