The Oxygen Paradox
October 11, 2007 by Sasha Manuel
Filed under Beauty
What is the Oxygen Paradox
Oxygen is a vital life-force and, at the same time, is a proven harmful cause of cellular deterioration.
Genuinely indispensable, oxygen transforms nutrients into energy. Nevertheless it can also prove to be injurious as during the different chemical stages of this transformation process, intermediary molecules appear – these are “reactive oxygen species” or free radicals. Their distinctive feature is that they have all lost an electron. In order to recover their missing electrons, these molecules attack their neighboring molecules in turn, provoking a series of oxidation reactions.
Free Radical Chain Reaction. This refers to the domino effect of …read more
