Martha Perrusi

Before I talk about today's supplement, which is Vitapulse from Princeton Nutrients, I want to talk about free radicals, because Vitapulse helps in reducing free radical damage and changing radicals into normal pairs of electrons and preventing them from causing damage any further.

So, free radicals, what are they? They can also be called radicals, without the free, and essentially they are pairs of atoms which have one or in some cases multiple electrons that are unpaired, without a pair.

It's as simple as that, and when they lose their pair, they become unstable.

Think of it like a bike that loses a wheel or something, if it helps, only the bike doesn't become reactive like unpaired electrons do, causing damage left and right in order to find its lost wheel, or in the case of a radical, another electron to form a pair with.

After they become unpaired and unstable and reactive, they attack and damage cells as well as other molecules and groups of atoms and steal electrons.

If it finds another electron to form a pair with, it no longer is unstable but it produces another radical and this can go on, this is what they call a radical chain reaction and it's really bad when chain reactions happen and they don't stop, it's often called oxidative stress and it can in some cases lead to blindness, Alzheimer's, cancer and more.

I also want you guys to understand that you have free radicals in your body, everyone does. Metabolic processes in your body produce free radicals as well, however what can make things worse and cause chain reactions and a lot more damage is smoking, pollution, chronic stress and other factors that can cause more free radicals by themselves.

Gas in cigarette smoke for example contains many radicals from oxygen and carbon and they are very reactive, which is one of the main reasons why smoking leads to cancer, accelerated ageing and more. I needed to talk about this because Vitapulse helps reduce the damage that free radicals cause, with antioxidants of course.

The damage that free radicals cause has a name, oxidative damage or oxidation. Antioxidants, like their name implies, can stop this damage or atleast reduce it. How? Well it's very simple, more simple than you think.

Radicals are electrons without a pair so antioxidants offer them a pair and just like that, they are no longer unstabl