Healthy Cells, Healthy Life
and USANA Health Sciences
Body Health From the Inside Out
What is Cellular Nutrition? Well let's say these apples are healthy cells. Plump, unharmed and what we would want them to look like. Cellular Nutrition is having more antioxidants than free radicals inside and outside our cells.
In brief, USANA's nutritional products have been tested for decades on live human cells in the laboratory of scientist, Dr. Myron Wentz. Dr. Wentz was originally well known for his breakthroughs in disease diagnosis. But after losing family members to Cancer and Heart Disease, he changed his research to disease prevention.
In researching optimal nutrition at the cellular level, he tested a variety of vitamins off the shelf and found they did not benefit human cells anywhere near the degree necessary for today's standards, and in some cases, did more harm than good. So he created his own, and USANA was born.
So now let's suppose that these Rutabagas are degenerating cells, on their way to a degenerative disease such as Cancer or Heart Disease. They are suffering from "oxidative stress", from free radical damage. A free radical is a molecule with an unpaired electron. It is extremely volatile zapping cells left and right in search of its pair, leaving destruction in its wake. Free radicals damage all parts of the cell including the DNA. Oxidative stress is when the cell takes on a chemical form of oxygen that is "poisonous" to the cell.
However, when these damaged cells receive an influx of a wide range of antioxidants, they begin to repair themselves. Antioxidants "snuff out" free radicals and protect the cells from further damage. The degenerating process is reversed. There are lots of cancers that are caused by our environment and lifestyles, and are therefore preventable. The key to health is the cell.
Balance is Key
Antioxidants can not do the job alone. In order for antioxidants to be most effective, they need their mineral cofactors: Selenium, Zinc, Copper, Maganese, and their Vitamin B cofactors: Folic Acid, B1, B2, B6, and B12. Without this synergy, antioxidants can not work optimally. The main sources of antioxidants are fruits and vegetables, especially those rich in color: berries, green leafy vegetables etc. A wide variety is necessary.
Here are some sources of free radicals:
Stress, poor air and water quality, chemical additives in food AND skin care, stress, hydrogenated oils (trans fats), our on-the-go diets, smoking, excessive exercise (marathon running etc.), medications, pesticides, sunlight, stress, stress and stress.
Chronic degenerative diseases take decades to form in our bodies. This gives us time to intervene.
So, now what?
In brief, USANA's nutritional products have been tested for decades on live human cells in the laboratory of scientist, Dr. Myron Wentz. Dr. Wentz was originally well known for his breakthroughs in disease diagnosis. But after losing family members to Cancer and Heart Disease, he changed his research to disease prevention.
In researching optimal nutrition at the cellular level, he tested a variety of vitamins off the shelf and found they did not benefit human cells anywhere near the degree necessary for today's standards, and in some cases, did more harm than good. So he created his own, and USANA was born.
So now let's suppose that these Rutabagas are degenerating cells, on their way to a degenerative disease such as Cancer or Heart Disease. They are suffering from "oxidative stress", from free radical damage. A free radical is a molecule with an unpaired electron. It is extremely volatile zapping cells left and right in search of its pair, leaving destruction in its wake. Free radicals damage all parts of the cell including the DNA. Oxidative stress is when the cell takes on a chemical form of oxygen that is "poisonous" to the cell.
However, when these damaged cells receive an influx of a wide range of antioxidants, they begin to repair themselves. Antioxidants "snuff out" free radicals and protect the cells from further damage. The degenerating process is reversed. There are lots of cancers that are caused by our environment and lifestyles, and are therefore preventable. The key to health is the cell.
Balance is Key
Antioxidants can not do the job alone. In order for antioxidants to be most effective, they need their mineral cofactors: Selenium, Zinc, Copper, Maganese, and their Vitamin B cofactors: Folic Acid, B1, B2, B6, and B12. Without this synergy, antioxidants can not work optimally. The main sources of antioxidants are fruits and vegetables, especially those rich in color: berries, green leafy vegetables etc. A wide variety is necessary.
Here are some sources of free radicals:
Stress, poor air and water quality, chemical additives in food AND skin care, stress, hydrogenated oils (trans fats), our on-the-go diets, smoking, excessive exercise (marathon running etc.), medications, pesticides, sunlight, stress, stress and stress.
Chronic degenerative diseases take decades to form in our bodies. This gives us time to intervene.
So, now what?
Health information on this site is based on:
The New England Journal of Medicine
The Journal of American Medical Association
The British Lancet
USANA Scientists
