Antioxidants, and their role in life and cosmetics

So it it actually and whether there is a sense from their application? Let's try to understand.

Antioxidants, what is it and what they are eaten with …
Antioxidants, in fact, antioxidants are the natural or synthetic substances capable to slow down oxidation process. Oxygen, probably, the most important and widespread chemical element on our planet, its participation in chemical reactions provides with energy all biological processes in an organism, but... It appears, one of consequences of these reactions is appearance of "free radicals" - unstable molecules which lack an electron. They were declared, in recent times, main "villains" and destroyers of an organism.

In the world there is a set of the assumptions and theories as the aging mechanism and why people are ill works. One of the most popular in recent years – the theory of the American chemist Harman. He conferred the main responsibility for aging of an organism on free radicals. The molecules deprived of an electron try to take away it from other molecules, damaging them and turning, in turn, also into free radicals. Any cages, any bodies can be damaged.

This process is resisted by antioxidants which give the electron, but do not lose stability and do not try to select an electron at other molecules. A part of antioxidants makes an organism itself, a part arrives with food (vitamins A, With, E, copper, zinc, selenium, flavonoids, etc.). For the time being balance in an organism remains, but as a result of some failure it is broken. Free radicals become too much, there are not enough antioxidants for a zalatyvaniye of holes, cages of an organism collapse, begin diseases and fast aging.

Harman's theory won huge popularity, she assumed very simple way of fight against an old age and diseases, apparently, it is worth saturating an organism with antioxidants and … farewell decrepitude and senile diseases! And with reserves of antioxidants of problems any is not present, they contain in the majority of food products, especially there are a lot of antioxidants in vegetables, fruit, berries, tea leaves. Moreover, antioxidants began to synthesize, enrich with them food, cosmetics.

As far as it is justified – a big question! The matter is that the last researches on efficiency of antioxidants indicate that their role in rejuvenescence of an organism is a little exaggerated, or to tell more true, fatal influence of free radicals on aging is exaggerated. Moreover, it turned out that high concentration of free radicals at all not pathology, but a way of fight of an organism against an infection.

Worms of doubt …
Grains of doubt in the miracle force of antioxidants seeded researches of biologists from the London university college (University College London). These researches on roundworms were conducted, and a conclusion became their result – antioxidants do not influence aging process in any way. What was made by scientists? If you think that they applied cosmetic medicines on poor worms or fed them with dietary supplements, then you are deeply mistaken. They genetically modified hearts nematodes (very convenient experimental object of biologists, because of the short term of life) in such a way that free radicals in the bodies began to suppress that. And, alas, this process did not affect life expectancy of hearts nematodes in any way, and their appearance it seems also.

Whether it is possible by results of such experiences (and similar) to draw an unambiguous conclusion about uselessness of antioxidants in aging prevention? I do not know, but very much I doubt, in any case, the question is not closed and scientific work in this direction is continued.

Even if antioxidants also do not influence directly preservation of youth, the healthy, balanced food (and we remember that antioxidants are included into many food), has huge value for reduction of risk of many diseases, and for the blossoming appearance.

So, we will not go into extremes.

Laudable ode to antioxidants
The fact that vegetable food, grass infusions, vegetables, fruit (and juice from them) well affect an organism knows mankind long since, and without any scientific research, on the basis of the practical experience. Not without reason the Chinese emperors considered a tea leaf "the state property" and hundred illnesses medicine, and drink to a karkada (infusion of cups of flowers of a hibiscus) was "drink of Pharaohs". And these drinks contain a large amount of antioxidants.

Bilberry, grapes, cranberry, mountain ash, black-fruited mountain ash, currant, pomegranates belong to fruit rich with antioxidants. It is possible to distinguish from drinks still (except tea) cocoa, red wine, natural coffee, kvass and fruit drinks from fruit.

Among vegetables sweet pepper, tomatoes, violet haricot, cabbage of all grades are rich in antioxidants. In the XX century broccoli cabbage conquered the whole world, thanks to the miracle properties opened in it. This plant contains unique antioxidant an indole-3 karbinol and also record amount of vitamins C and And, by the way too antioxidants. Broccoli stimulates work of heart, cleans vessels, protecting them from atherosclerosis, treats an ulcer, and even prevents a breast cancer.

The secret of curative effect of fruit, berries, vegetables for certain is not only in their antioxidant action, but in all combination of various useful components - fruit and other acids, antioxidants, amino acids, digestible carbohydrates, macro and minerals, vitamins, polysaccharides, bioflavonoids, vegetable fibers, cellulose etc.

In any case, the synthesized antioxidants work not so successfully as natural, it is visible something to them after all is not enough, besides it is easy to overdose them, and then instead of advantage harm is done to an organism.

Even many representatives of official medicine are convinced: 500 grams of fresh vegetables and fruit will bring more benefit, than daily reception of a handful of synthetic antioxidants.

And how cosmetics? Let's be optimists!
The most widespread antioxidants in cosmetics are: vitamins E, C, A, F, carotinoids, bioflavonoids, Q 10 coenzyme, lipoic acid, selenium.

In spite of the fact that the rejuvenating effect of antioxidants in cosmetics is still not proved whether it is possible to consider that means? supporting them, are absolutely useless? No, it is impossible! Today it is precisely proved that antioxidants in cosmetics heal, remove inflammation, protected from ultraviolet. And adverse environmental conditions are in many respects responsible for early aging of skin, not without reason first of all skin of hands and a face suffer, and the skin closed by clothes remains young longer. So use of antioxidants in day face creams, in hand creams, means from suntan, protivospalitelny creams after suntan, cream and other, quite reasonably.

Besides, antioxidants protect actually cosmetic from oxidation on air. So introduction to composition of cream of antioxidants allows to reduce a little in it amount of preservatives that too is quite good.

Whether save antioxidants from an old age or do not save, this is still authentically unknown to science! But we will not be upset ahead of time who knows what else experiences will be thought up by these inquisitive scientists. Very often results of some experiments directly contradict results of others. So if your favourite cream or a mask does your skin younger, softer, more gentle, then what in principle the difference, at the expense of antioxidants it occurs or at the expense of other mechanisms.

Using the quality cosmetics containing including antioxidants, avoiding excessive solar bathtubs, looking after skin carefully and constantly, we can significantly slow down skin aging speed already now, and there, look, and will invent miracle cream of "eternal youth".