This has been shown to actually damage the lining of and may even cause spasms of your arteries. When individuals take high doses of antioxidants with these fatty meals, these effects are eliminated. Decreasing our exposure to these risk factors is a start, although it is impossible to eliminate all of them. We must live in our environment. It is critical to our health to learn how we can optimize our antioxidant defense system to handle ever-changing levels of oxidative stress.
Balance is the key to winning the war within.
We must have enough antioxidants available to handle all of the free radicals produced or we will lose the battle. If oxidative stress is allowed to persist for a prolonged period of time, we will lose the war. This then is the very foundation for the mechanism of degenerative disease. In the coming chapters, you will begin to see oxidative stress is the common denominator to degenerative disease. As we look at the overwhelming evidence in the medical literature in the following chapters, I believe you will become just as convinced as I have that nutritional supplementation is not only wise but a necessity.