Oxidative stress has nothing to do with emotional distress: it is the negative effect that free radicals in the body have on healthy cells.
Dr. Helga
Mission impossible
Oxidative stress is experienced by everyone, but as we age the body's ability to fight free radicals weakens more and more. The oxidation process takes place in the body all the time as we breathe oxygen. However, due to diseases, negative environmental influences, and bad habits, the amount of free radicals increases, and antioxidants may not be enough to fight them. This causes cells to break down, age faster and stop fulfilling their functions.
The risk of oxidative stress increases with age, especially in premenopausal and postmenopausal women.
The description doesn't look simple, so let's look at it a little more closely. For various reasons, a free radical is an electron that "unhooked" from its nucleus and went free floating. Moving chaotically, it collides...
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