Anti-Aging Vitamins
And Anti-Aging Antioxidants
You Need To Know About

Anti-aging vitamins and anti-aging antioxidants are the third most important element in a comprehensive anti-aging program.

What are the first two?

If you've been following along, you now know that the number one most important anti-aging principle is to eat a powerful anti-inflammatory diet, with lots of low-glycemic foods, fresh fruits and vegies, phytonutrients and high quality protein, especially wild salmon and other cold water fish.

What's the second most important?

No doubt about it: high dose, ultra-refined pharmaceutical grade fish oils.

Remember, that supplements of any kind are exactly as their name suggests: they are a supplement to a healthy diet, not a substitute for one!

No matter how many anti-aging vitamins or anti-aging antioxidants you take, you will never age well or be healthy, if you continue to eat a high inflammatory diet.

I know that's a powerful statement, but if there's one thing I want you to "get" from this whole website, it is an echoing of Hippocrates famous words over 2000 years ago, "Let food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be food."

Simply put, food needs to be treated as the most powerful drug at your disposal, when it comes to anti-aging and wellness.

What Is The Difference Between
Anti-Aging Vitamins and Anti-Aging Antioxidants?

Quite simply, vitamins are molecules that your body cannot manufacture on its own that are necessary and vital for life.

There are thirteen known vitamins essential for human life. For a nice list of them and the dates of their discovery, click here.

Antioxidants, on the other hand, are not considered essential for life, the body can manufacture many of them, and there are thousands of them. Antioxidants are simply any molecule that can neutralize a free radical in the body.

Not every vitamin is an anti-oxidant. Not every antioxidant is a vitamin. Some vitamins are anti-oxidants, however.

Vitamin D, for example, has little to no antioxidant capacity. It cannot neutralize a free radical.

Vitamin E, on the other hand, is a potent free radical scavenger (anti-oxidant) and a necessary vitamin.

Before you learn about the key anti-aging vitamins and anti-aging antioxidants that can most improve your anti aging efforts, let me discuss "the Antioxidant Network."

What Is The Major Antioxidant Network?

The major antioxidant network was developed by Lester Packer, Ph.D. considered to be the father of antioxidants.

Dr. Packer has been researching vitamins for over 50 years and is perhaps the most well connected scientist regarding antioxidants on the planet.

In his book, The Antioxidant Miracle he details the five major antioxidants that make up "the major antioxidant network." They are:

1. Viatmin C
2. Vitamin E
3. Alpha Lipoic Acid
4. Co-enzyme Q10 and
5. Glutathione

It was largely due to Dr. Packer's work that we now understand the tremendous connections between these antioxidants and how they support and re-energize one another.

These five major anti-aging antioxidants are truly a network in the sense that they help and rely on one another to be as productive and protective as possible.

None of them alone, can do near what they can do together in terms of fighting off free radicals and keeping oxidative stress to a minimum.

It is important to know that the only antioxidant in the network that cannot be taken as an oral supplement is Glutathione.

This compound forms an enyzme in the membrane of the cells that is capable of quelling free radicals and protecting the cell from free radical damage.

Glutathione is the only major antioxidant that cannot be taken orally in a capsule form.

Here Are Some Key Anti-Aging Vitamins
And Anti-Aging Antioxidants That Are
Important For Your Health And Successful Aging

Alpha Lipoic Acid

Alpha Lipoic Acid: This powerful antioxidant and anti aging supplement is both fat soluble (which means it can protect the outer cell membrane and the mitochondrial membrane) and water soluble (which means it can protect the structures inside the cell membrane, an area called the "cytosol.")

Acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALC)

Acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALC): This anti aging supplement is responsible for moving fatty acids into the mitochnodria in order to improve energy production, which is the hallmark of vital, young and healthy cells.

Acetyl-L-Carnitine is readily absorbed into the body, enters cells, crosses the blood-brain barrier and also passes into the mitochondrial membrane to act as a natural anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant.

Coenzyme Q10 (Co-Q10)

Coenzyme Q10 (Co-Q10): This antioxidant is found in the mitochondrial portion of the cell and it helps transport electrons for energy production as well as protect the mitochondria from free radical damage. It is also fat soluble, which enables it to protect the outer membrane of the cell and the outer membrane of the mitochondria.

Pycnogenol

Pycnogenol: This anti aging supplement has a fascinating history and is really a complex mixture of flavonoids (a group of compounds that have anti-aging, antioxidant activity and are found in plants, mostly the pigments of leaves, barks, rinds, seeds and flowers).

Pycnogenol is really one of many anti-aging herbs that can dramatically boost the power of other antioxidants in the body. From an anti-aging standpoint, in Dr. Lester Packer's lab, Pycnogenol was able to slow down or prevent the death of brain cells exposed to high levels of glutamate, which normally trigger cell death (apoptosis).

That's a pretty profound benefit, don't you think. Hanging on to one's brain cells is a key goal in every

Resveratrol

Resveratrol: This anti aging supplement is derived from the skin of red grapes and packs an unusually powerful antioxidant punch. It makes platelets less sticky, improves blood flow and in lab animals, helps turn on a gene that produces a protein called SIRT, that is associated with a longer life.

Resveratrol also improves endurance in the laboratory and it helps improve insulin sensitivity, preventing the damaging and aging effects of high blood sugar.