What is oxidative stress? Well, everybody's heard of oxidative stress but they may or may not know exactly what it is. It has a lot to do with the balance between the free radicals in your body and the antioxidants. We know that these things balance themselves out. But when you have too many free radicals, then you can start having things like rusting and rotting. If you will, if you think about taking a bite of it out of an apple and leaving it on the countertop, you're going to see oxidation happening to that apple. It's gonna start to turn brown. Well, that can happen inside our bodies too sort of a Yin and Yang situation because we do need some free radicals. We've been hearing for decades that they're bad but your body uses free radicals all the time, but it likes to reverse those or negate them because of this balance. Now, like I said, when those things are out of balance, that's when you start to see problems arise from it, from the oxidative stress
Anything that affects our mitochondria is going to affect the balance of these molecules. So things like pollution, aging is a big one. Medications, electromagnetic fields, any kind of stress is going to affect our mitochondria and maybe cause mitochondrial dysfunction. So as we get older, we know we lose
our mitochondria per decade after puberty. So we're on a downhill hill slide after puberty. And then like I said, all these other things are are harming the efficiency and the effectiveness of our mitochondria and that causes an imbalance. So when you restore the balance of
So when you actually overcome that imbalance or you fix that imbalance, you start to see the effects of oxidative stress negate. So that's a very important thing for homeostasis in the body is to have that balance. Now, it's not always going to be perfect. You're not always going to be centered. But what is really important is the ability to go back to center to re center when you're pushed to one side or the other, when one becomes a little bit more active than the other, to be able to get back to center to back to balance is what we're really striving for. And that's what leads to our overall wellness is that ability to overcome that stress.
