The chart above shows that excess free radicals generated from stress, pollution, smoking or lack of exercise, overwhelms your body’s antioxidants. When your body’s antioxidants can’t adequately fight these free radicals it results in oxidative stress, then inflammation occurs. Inflammation then leads to many problems affecting your joints, heart, brain and more.

1. Reactive Oxygen Free Radical – These are created in your body from everyday functions of your metabolism. They need to be eliminated by antioxidants or they will cause damage.

2. SOD – Reacts with the harmful free radical to form Hydrogen Peroxide radical.

3. Catalase and Glutathione Peroxidase (GPx) – Reacts with hydrogen peroxide to render the free radical harmless.

4. Result – The free radical is gone!

Side note: GliSODin® boosts all three antioxidants your body produces: SOD, Catalase and GPx.

We created FlexEssentials to help your body fight free radicals and oxidative stress, which are the root cause of inflammation and chronic discomfort.

Here is a list of organizations from which we learn about the key issues that affect our health and well-being.

National Fibromyalgia Association
National Arthritis Foundation
Lupus Foundation of America
Chronic Fatigue Association of America
American Pain Foundation

* Providing links to other websites does not imply that FluidEssentials endorses the information or services provided by them. Those organizations are solely responsible for the information they provide. The links presented are for educational purposes only. They are not intended to treat, prevent or diagnose any health problems. The information has not been evaluated by the FDA.

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