How Antioxidants Protects

Most people are unaware that by far the enormous majority of heart disorders angina pectoris and heart attacks are not primarily heart problems. The same goes for the enormous majority of strokes minor and major which are not really brain problems. The explanation of this seemingly paradoxical statement is that, in both cases, the trouble is in the arteries that supply the heart and the brain with blood. The heart is a powerful muscle and the brain is a mass of nerve tissue and supporting tissue. Both work very hard and both require a massive and continuous supply of well oxygenated blood. Without this blood supply which also carries the principal cell fuel, glucose both the heart and the brain would quickly die.

Blood is supplied via the arteries, so it is of vital concern that these arteries should be healthy and, in particular, unobstructed. Few of us really appreciated how fundamentally important our arteries are. We worry and complain about our joints, backs, lungs, legs, veins, skin, even our waterworks, but seldom, if ever, about our arteries. The truth is that artery trouble is far more serious than any of these other things we complain about.