Posts Tagged ‘Energy’
Aerobic for Healthy
The existence of beings that breathe oxygen for energy appears as a constant struggle against oxidation. The same breath, as well as external factors such as chemical pollution and radiation produce reactive oxidant species, usually free radicals, molecules that are normally very active small and can damage macromolecules essential to life as nucleic acids (carriers genetic information) and proteins (mainly responsible for the functioning of living organisms). Oxygen is essential to our lives, and paradoxically also is responsible for the “combustion.”
Oxygen breathing organisms have endogenous mechanisms of defense against free radicals, but in some circumstances these systems are inadequate and should be complemented through food. Read the rest of this entry »