The Antioxidant Miracle: Put Lipoic Acid, Pycnogenol, and Vitamins E and C to Work for You
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Imagine there was an easy way you could keep your heart strong, your mind sharp, and your body youthful. Imagine this program could keep you young, improve your sex life, prevent cancer and heart disease, and keep your skin supple and wrinkle-free. And perhaps best of all, imagine this was something readily available at your local drugstore or natural food store. These and other benefits are the miraculous results of antioxidants. Lester Packer is the world's foremost authority on these natural healers. In The Antioxidant Miracle, he explains for the first time exactly how you can design a practical, personalized antioxidant program for disease prevention and optimal wellness.
The Antioxidant Miracle is the first popular book to reveal the full range of healing benefits of lipoic acid, the most versatile and powerful antioxidant and nature's secret weapon in treating heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and liver disease. This breakthrough book also unveils the astonishing strength of the antioxidant network, the combination of vitamin E, vitamin C, lipoic acid, Co Q10, and glutathione that—when taken together in the proper amounts—battles disease and aging far more aggressively than supplements taken individually.
After an accessible explanation of the science behind antioxidants, Packer and bestselling health writer Carol Colman show you how to develop your own state-of-the-art supplement regimen designed to keep your body strong, your brain at full speed, and your antioxidant network working at its peak. They include specialized supplement programs for smokers, diabetics, people with a family history of cancer or heart disease, menopausal women, athletes, and picky eaters. You'll find out how to incorporate antioxidant-rich foods easily into your diet and develop your own plan for smooth, healthy, young looking skin. And you'll discover the benefits of "booster" antioxidants—bioflavonoids like ginkgo biloba and Pycnogenol—and others like beta carotene and selenium.
The Antioxidant Miracle can enhance and extend your life. Make the antioxidant miracle work for you!
Advance acclaim for The Antioxidant Miracle
- "Finally, a book by a renowned and active researcher that proves the value of nutritional supplements. The Antioxidant Miracle provides a shield protecting us from disease and ensuring health. The information in this book could save your life!"Julian Whitaker, M.D., Founder, Whitaker Wellness Institute and
- Editor of Health and Healing.
"Life is like a candle flame, and antioxidants make it burn brighter and longer. Lester Packer is the keeper of the flame. For those of us seeking to combat the debility and diseases of aging, The Antioxidant Miracle is an essential tool.—William Regelson, M.D., Coauthor of the New York Times bestseller, The Melatonin Miracle
"Any health-conscious person will want to read The Antioxidant Miracle. It makes the understanding of these miracle nutrients easy to comprehend and utilize in his or her everyday life.—Earl Mindell. Author of The Herb Bible, The Vitamin Bible, and The Supplement Bible.
A pill that strengthens your heart, sharpens your mind, keeps your body young, extends your life, prevents cancer, and keeps your skin wrinkle-free? Sounds like a joke or a dream, doesn't it? According to molecular cell biologist Lester Packer, these pills exist--they are antioxidants. "Literally thousands of studies have confirmed that antioxidants can help prevent numerous diseases and will not only enhance life, but in all probability extend life," he writes. In The Antioxidant Miracle, he describes breakthroughs in antioxidant research and prescribes the Packer Plan: his "state-of-the-art antioxidant supplement, diet, and skin-care regimen."
According to Packer, five antioxidants "network" in our bodies with "special powers" that slow aging and fight disease: Vitamins C and E, glutathione, lipoic acid, and Coenzyme Q10. The first two are obtained through food, the others are produced by the body, but these levels decline as we age, so we need to supplement. Packer describes the benefits and actions of these special antioxidants and also recommends flavonoids such as ginkgo biloba and pycnogenol (made from the bark of pine trees), a number of carotenoids, selenium, and a variety of foods high in antioxidants. He spells out exactly what supplements you need and how much, with special modifications for smokers, diabetics, menopausal women, athletes, and people at high risk of cancer or cardiovascular disease. The book is not easy reading: lots of scientific explanations and study descriptions.
Reviews
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-09-22
Summary: "Book was very used!"
The book itself is very good and well written. The condition of the book was very used, don't mind the highlights and notes from past user, but the torn pages was another issue.
Pleased on how fast it was deliver!
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-07-07
Summary: "Excellent"
Good introductory book on antioxidants. Very informative regarding Lipoic Acid. This is a key antioxidant we need to be taking as we get older. Remember to only get the R enantiomer.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-10-27
Summary: "Changed My Life"
I first read this book six years ago and have been following the Antioxidant Daily Cocktail since then.
I bought it again in Sept. 2007 to review its suggestions.
I'm 69 years old and have no aches and pains of any sort and attribute it to this book. Recently had a heart scan and no plaque was found - a "0" reading which is unusual for a person of my age.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-08-04
Summary: "Great Book - a clear explanation of a difficult topic"
This is a great book giving a clear and detailed explanation of one aspect (antioxidants) of an emerging new approach to health care - i.e. real prevention and healthy aging by leveraging the body's own miraculous capabilities.
Meanwhile, mainstream medicine continues to be enamored with a different kind of miracle: e.g. triple-bypass surgery and organ transplants. Even so-called preventative health care is often no more than early detection and uses expensive tests. Follow the money. You can't patent naturally occurring substances.
This sentence on p35-36 sums it all up:
"I believe that the practice of medicine in the 21st century will focus less on curing diseases from the outside with drugs that are foreign to our bodies and more on empowering the body from within by boosting the disease-fighting powers of the antioxidant network."
Lester Packer is a world-renowned researcher with hundreds of scientific publications. He explains what free radicals are and how they wreak havoc in the body. For example, they speed up aging, cause or exacerbate heart disease, chronic inflammation, strokes, cataracts, and cancer to name a few.
Free radicals cause harm when combined with oxygen, a process called oxidation. Oxidation is all around us. It causes rust, the browning of food, and is why old windshield wipers leave streaks and need to be replaced. An anti-oxidant is something that neutralizes a free radical and thus limiting oxidation damage.
Oh by the way, if you a smoker, you should know that one puff of a cigarette contains billions of free radicals that can overwhelm your body's antioxidant network. Most of the diseases associated with smoking are alleviated by a strong antioxidant network.
He explains that there are many kinds of antioxidants, typically working individually. However there is a network of special antioxidants that work together synergistically. The trouble with most antioxidants is that when they neutralize a free radical, they lose their ability to neutralize another one. An antioxidant is recycled when it is again made able to neutralize a free radical. The antioxidant network consists of 5 antioxidants that are able to recycle each other. They are: vitamins C and E, glutathione, coenzyme Q10 and lipoic acid.
Full chapters are devoted to each of these five network antioxidants. After that, other important antioxidants are considered that interact with some of the network antioxidants (network boosters). Pycogenol and ginkgo biloba are important examples of "flavenoids" a group of more than 4000 individual antioxidant compounds found in plants. Another chapter is devoted to the more controversial `carotenoids', which are natural pigments found both in plants and animals - with a good explanation of the beta carotene debate. Another chapter is devoted to surprising selenium, which has many benefits in trace amounts.
The latter chapters review and summarize and suggest what to do with all this information. He tells what foods to eat to get the various antioxidants, and when to supplement with how much of what.
The benefits of these antioxidants are now well documented, but little known in the mainstream. Most people never heard of `flavenoids' 'alpha lipoic acid" or `glutathione' but after reading this book you will want your them in your body. The benefits are wide-ranging and profound. For example, keeping your network of antioxidants healthy can prevent and treat a wide range of ailments, including aging, itself. Some of the many benefits include:
* slowing down and even reversing the aging process
* protecting your DNA from damage
* turn off bad genes that would result in disease
* strengthen your immune system
* enhance memory & mental function
* keep your skin youthful,
A good antioxidation program can prevent or limit the impacts of:
* many forms of cancers, especially prostate cancer
* arthritis and other inflammation diseases
* chronic fatigue syndrome
* hepatitis C liver disease,
* heart disease
* diabetes
* strokes
* cataracts
* gum disease
* impotence
These are not anecdotal claims, they are backed by decades of scientific study. There are around a hundred references to the scientific literature included in the book, for the interested reader.
A good companion book to read is The Metabolic Plan: Stay Younger Longer, by Stephen Cherniske. It includes a condensed version of the material in The Antioxidant Miracle, in the broader context of outlining a plan for staying younger longer. Both books are about true preventive health care (vs. early detection and disease care) through healthy lifestyle that can reverse biological aging.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-05-23
Summary: "Amazing book"
This is really the Bible of Antioxidants and the way they protect us. The author is outstanding and certainly his research into this subject is incredible. This book is a must for those trying to slow down the aging process.