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Antioxidants: Defenders against damage from free radicals

Ordinarily speaking, body uses oxygen in most, but not all, bodily chemical reactions, particularly in the production of energy. It uses this energy to perform a variety of routine bodily functions that sustain life in the broadest terms such as defending itself against bugs (bacteria, fungi, viruses, you name it), and against other constant threats, so-called free radicals, being the inevitable byproducts of turning food into energy by the body itself, but also present in diet, in the air we breathe or the result of sunlight’s action on skin and eyes.

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