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How Can Antioxidants Benefit You If You Workout, and What Are the Best Ones?
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In recent years, fitness enthusiasts have started to take note of how antioxidants could be beneficial to health and performance. Antioxidants are nutrients and enzymes that fight free radicals, which are charged molecules that roam around like rogues.
These aggressive molecules circulate in your body-they basically go around screwing up the function of cells and other molecules that move in the blood.
Some experts believe that free radicals are involved in numerous diseases such as cancer, arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease, and that they are associated with the aging process, even resulting in death. Scientific research has indicated that strenuous exercise increases the number of free radicals; thus many sports nutrition experts are recommending increased antioxidant protection for avid exercisers.
Some examples of effective antioxidants include Vitamins C and E, carotenes (like beta-carotene), glutathione, CoQ10, N-acetyl-cysteine, selenium, and Alpha Lipoic Acid.
These antioxidants may help your body prevent free-radical damage that could ultimately lead to a decrease in performance as well as boost immune-system function to keep you going strong, strengthen collagen, and protect connective tissue cells. On top of that, Alpha Lipoic Acid is a multi- faceted compound and may help you improve the action of insulin, safeguard cells against free-radical damage, increase energy production in your muscles and decrease fat storage in your body.
As far as the best way to get your daily dose of antioxidants goes, it's always better to get them through natural food sources such as broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, mushrooms, spinach, peppers and garlic. On the sweet side, fruits and berries- blueberries, cranberries, plums, goji berries, and watermelon. These sources are more complete in that they often contain phytonutrients and other substances not contained in the isolated supplement types
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