Yes, antioxidants are good for us, but the emerging research is far more exciting. I believe that the understanding and correct utilization of vitamin and “newer” natural dietary antioxidants- phytochemicals, polyphenols, flavonoids, stilbenes, and more- is the future of medicine.

Cholesterol causes heart disease? Nope, sorry. Bad science. And no longer accepted by those in the know. The new consensus among researchers is that oxidative stress in the vascular wall causes atherosclerosis. Some doctors now understand this. Yours probably doesn’t.

Free radical damage hardens your arteries. It’s a biological fact. Procyanidins “soften” them, keeping them young and flexible- also proven in animal and human studies. Apple polyphenols, purple grape juice, red wine, green tea, whole vitamin E. Problem solved.

What’s really exciting (to me, anyway) is that we can actually alter gene expression through nutrition. Andrew Dannenberg, M.D., director of cancer prevention at New York Presbyterian Hospital puts it this way: “It might just be that the most effective form of gene therapy is diet.”

Out at UCLA Berkeley, Dr. Lester Packer has discovered that antioxidants actually control our genes, switching them on and off.

Diet as gene therapy. Super-antioxidants as immediate and sustained molecular intervention. Prevention treatment and actual reversal of disease and aging symptoms. Available now. Revolutionary stuff.

So kids, when Mark tells you to eat your daily apple, you listen up, OK? Because he’s headed in the right direction- toward the new and exciting future of deeper biochemical medicine and real-time control of the molecular and genetic realities that underlie health, disease, and human aging.

David L. Kern
New Health & Longevity

Probably ahead of orange and tomato, but only slightly…and then you have to be careful, because a cup of the POM juice that delivers, say 800 ORAC, also delivers 25 grams of sugar.