Make no mistake, the world as we know it today is not in the best shape. The surrounding environment, from air to food to water to everything we touch, is certainly far from perfect. Since they say the environment is everything when it comes to looking after our mental and physical health, often we wonder how much healthier we’d be if we could just whisk ourselves away to a calmer, less polluted world.
But, like it or not, our world is the only one we’ve got. Without stepping into a time machine or moving in with some penguins and polar bears in Antarctica, there is simply no way to escape the health hazards of our planet. They’re all there, in everything around us. Yes, even the most healthy organic vegetables have unwanted compounds, and the wildest sections of first-growth forests still have air pollution.
We can’t avoid it; the world’s imperfections will eventually reach our bodies, some way or another. And the body knows this, so over the long course of human evolution, our body has built up a fairly strong defense system against the pollutants and toxins it encounters. Much like how the body is able to fight off 99% of unwanted bacteria and viruses without you even noticing, the body is also pretty darn good at protecting itself from toxins and getting rid of the ones that do manage to sneak in. Let’s take a look at the power of antioxidants!
Antioxidants form the body’s second line of defense, after the physical barrier that the skin provides, against inorganic toxins and unwanted compounds that enter the body. Collectively known as “free radicals,” if these toxins manage to sneak into the body (and news flash, they do), it’s now up to your body’s antioxidants to catch them and get them out of your bloodstream. In the same way that blood cells are the knights of the immune system, riding through the bloodstream to catch bacteria and viruses, antioxidants do the same in their mission of catching free radicals.
But unlike white blood cells, antioxidants are not living cells that reproduce within the bone marrow, but inorganic chemical compounds that your body ingests not unlike nutrients and vitamins. They’re not something your body can just produce and replenish on command; you need to make sure that you’re putting enough in your body, and your body is able to make use of them. And it goes without saying that, in today’s polluted and less-than-healthy world, this is more important than ever.
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