Quotes About Antioxidant

Grow some wild geranium," he suggested. "Or buy the extract online." Geranium niveum is the Tarahumara wonder drug; according to the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, it's as effective as red wine at neutralizing disease-causing free radicals. As one writer put it, wild geranium is "anti-everything—anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, antioxidant.

Vanilla is anti-inflammatory and reduces free radicals.

Dried oregano has thirty times the brain-healing antioxidant power of raw blueberries, forty-six times more than apples, and fifty-six times as much as strawberries, making it one of the most powerful brain cell protectors on the planet.

Berries have the highest nutrient-to-calorie ratio of all fruits. •  Berries are some of the highest antioxidant-rich foods in existence. •  Cherries, which are a stone fruit, are also rich in flavonoid antioxidant compounds.

Lycopene is the signature carotenoid of the tomato.

Lycopene is an extremely potent antioxidant; its antioxidant capability is said to be double that of beta-carotene and ten times that of vitamin E.

Give people about a quarter cup a day of tomato paste, and get an improvement in artery function within fifteen days, an effect attributed to both anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.

The most antioxidant-packed common herb is peppermint.73

curcumin pills; they merely got less than a teaspoon a day of just the regular turmeric spice you'd find at the grocery store. Of course, turmeric can't completely mitigate the effects of smoking. Even after the participants ate turmeric for a month, the DNA-damaging ability of the smokers' urine still exceeded that of the nonsmokers'. But smokers who make turmeric a staple of their diets may help lessen some of the damage.

It turns out that sodium intake appears to suppress the activity of a key antioxidant enzyme in the body called superoxide dismutase,49 which has the ability to detoxify a million free radicals per second.50 With the action of this workhorse of an enzyme stifled by sodium, artery-crippling levels of oxidative stress can build up.

Crush one medium clove of garlic and let it sit for ten to fifteen minutes, then mix with a tablespoon of honey to make it more palatable. Eat one to two cloves daily.