Free radical and reactive oxygen species (ROS) damage from heavy metals occurs when your body accumulates harmful levels of heavy metals, triggering oxidative stress that harms vital cellular components such as enzymes, DNA and proteins.
Some metals like Iron and Zinc are necessary for everyday bodily functions, but others such as Arsenic, Lead and Mercury can be toxic even in small amounts. This damage can occur through eating certain foods like fish, drinking water from older lead pipes, living in an area with high pollution or handling metal-related products or pesticides without proper protection.
The good news is that recent research has found that certain antioxidants and nutrients with antioxidant abilities can help decrease this damage, and the most effective way to ensure your cells are fully utilizing those critical nutrients is through IV Drip Therapy.
How Heavy Metal Toxicity Affects the Neurological System
Let’s first address why heavy metal toxicity is harmful. Whether heavy metals are absorbed through the skin or directly inhaled or ingested, once they enter your body they react with your cells and organs and prevent them from properly functioning, which can cause an unhealthy domino effect on every system in your body.
This damage can contribute to severe health issues like inflammation and tissue damage, cardiovascular disease, cancer, autoimmune diseases, diabetes and various neurological diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis.
This is because oxidative stress—which occurs when there aren’t enough antioxidants to combat an excess amount of free radicals in the body—has the greatest effect on the brain, which is most vulnerable to heavy metal exposure.
How Antioxidants Can Help Decrease Free Radicals & ROS Damage
When it comes to antioxidants, research has found that they have the potential to play a vital role in preventing oxidative stress and treating damage caused by heavy metals. Their function is to seek out free radicals in the body and neutralize them, reducing their power to do damage.
One of the best ways to ensure your body has the antioxidants it needs to fight and help prevent damage from free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) is through IV Drip Therapy, which involves an intravenous infusion of essential antioxidants directly into your bloodstream. This science-backed therapy provides 100% bioavailability of nutrients, as compared to 15-20% when you just consume food.
IV Drip Therapy Ingredients to Help Damage
Here are the top three antioxidants you can get in your IV Drip that may help to decrease free radicals and ROS damage.
Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA)
Also known as the “Universal Antioxidant,” alpha lipoic acid (ALA) is both water and fat-soluble, whereas many other antioxidants are usually one or the other. This allows ALA to work in every cell or tissue, helping to reduce inflammation, prevent cardiovascular diseases, regulate blood sugar, reduce the signs of aging and support brain health.
N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC)
As a supplement to Cysteine, NAC works to help make and replenish Glutathione, one of the most important antioxidants in the body. NAC has been found to support the body’s natural detoxification process of heavy metals, improve mental health conditions, reduce symptoms of respiratory diseases, improve memory and brain health and reduce the risk of heart disease.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is vital for protecting cells from free radicals but isn’t naturally produced in the body, which means the only way to ensure adequate levels is through eating certain foods and direct supplementation methods like IV Drip Therapy. This antioxidant plays a key role in immune function, reducing oxidative stress, protecting cells from damage, reducing inflammation and maintaining healthy skin, joints and muscles through collagen production.
Decrease Free Radical & ROS Damage at Restore
Heavy metal toxicity can have severe health implications ranging from neurological disorders to cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Talk to your healthcare provider if you believe you are suffering from heavy metal toxicity.
IV Drip Therapy delivers antioxidants directly into your bloodstream, providing powerful support to combat free radicals and ROS damage, ultimately enhancing your overall health and well-being.
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Editor’s note: Not all free radical damage comes from reactive oxygen species (ROS), and not all ROS are free radicals. Free radicals are unstable molecules with unpaired electrons, and ROS are a group of molecules that include some free radicals and some non-free radicals.
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