Tuesday, March 24, 2009

More on Free Radicals

What Causes These Free Radicals?

Basically any stress we put on our body can cause free radicals. While obvious things like polluted air, smoking, stressful events and unhealthy foods can cause free radicals - many "healthy" activities can also create free radicals. Almost any type of exercise will put stress on our body. Athletes that train at a high intense level are high performance generators for free radicals.