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Protecting Against “Free Radicals”
by Laura Lee
(Copyright) by David Antion (Pasadena, California) “Free Radicals” is a term that sounds like Muslim terrorists being let out of prison. But that’s not what I’m talking about here. Perhaps the best way to describe a “free radical” is to explain the difference between carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO). As you probably know carbon dioxide is what you breathe out and is relatively harmless in your body. That’s because the O2 has a balance of electrons. When an atom has an imbalance of electrons it attacks a molecule in some organ in the body to take an electron […]