Dr. Gez Agolli hosts his weekly podcast focused on insights and trends in Integrative and Functional. This week, Dr. Agolli has invited Dr. Gena Mastrogianakis on the show to discuss COVID-19.
The paradox: We spend a lot of money and time on increasing our antioxidant intake through foods and supplements. Yet most of us never know if this effort is making any impact on our health.
Should we be checking our oxidative stress levels as often as we check our cholesterol?
Not a day goes past that we don’t hear about oxidative stress in the news and interwebs, and how it is shortening our lifespan or causing diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
You also know that antioxidants protect us from oxidative stress. And you most probably spend some of your dollars on antioxidants through healthy food choices and supplements.
But how do you know if those dollars spent reward you with any real benefit?
Let’s look into measuring oxidative stress, how to use biomarkers to assess your health status, and whether your antioxidant purchasing efforts are paying off.
Oxidative stress is behind many illnesses and diseases in the body and brain. A few of the most major ones are:
Cancer is like a seed. Not every seed sprouts. Not every seed produces a plant. Not every seed produces fruit. BUT provided the right environment, the seed can thrive…cancer can thrive. Oxidative stress is the fertile soil for cancer to grow. Oxidative stress is your best biomarker as a risk factor for cancer.
Oxidative stress is the main contributor to why cholesterol becomes “truly bad” plaque.
The simplest biomarker to test for oxidative stress is a first morning urine test to see if someone has too much oxidative stress overall.
Oxidative stress can affect different areas of the body, and different parts of the cell. Another way to say this: there are different parts of the oxidative stress system. Fortunately, there are 30 biomarkers are currently available for testing oxidative stress. Certian markers are more associated with certain conditions. For example, Cytosol of the cell is associated with ALS. Damage to the Mitochondria is associated with Fatigue & Cancer.
For treatment of oxidative stress, we first treat the root cause of the pathology for an individual. If it is a nutritional deficiency, leaky gut, an underlying infection, heavy metal toxicity, Lyme disease, or another diagnosis, that should be a primary course of treatment.
The Methylation processes in the body are also tied to the health of cell mitochondria and oxidative stress. This complicated process is cruicial for detoxification in the body…in the liver and the brain, in dna and enzymes. Fortunately, there are broad strokes that can improve methylation throughout the body. Lowering the burden of oxidative stress helps with methylation.
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