HEALTH E FLIGHTCREW

Free Radicals & Flight Crew

As professional flight crew members it”s important to understand the effect of free radi-cals on our health. Please forgive the technical lingo, but firstly a brief discussion of biochemistry is in order. In our bodies, atoms make up molecules, molecules make up cells, cells make up tissues, tissues make up organs and organs make up systems.

Our bodies are made up of around 75 trillion cells. Normally, these cells are working in concert with one another repairing and rebuilding. Our cells replicate and make new copies of themselves at the rate of about 50 thousand cells every three seconds. That requires a lot of energy. Around the clock, even when we are sleeping, in fact espe-cially when we are sleeping our bodies are hard at work repairing and rebuilding in or-der for us to survive and thrive. For a fascinating view of actual cell mitosis go to: www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm

The problem is, due to outside influences like pollution, radiation, and lack of sleep free radicals are formed in our bodies. To make matters worse, as we age our bodies natu-ral defenses against free radical damage are diminished. A free radical is an atom that is missing and electron. Scientists tell us that these atoms must find a donor electron to replace the one that is missing. They will rob from a nearby cell that is capable of do-nating the needed electron creating another free radical in the process staring a cascad-ing domino affect of damage within our bodies. In addition, the element that is most ca-pable of donating an electron is oxygen. When oxygen comes in contact with a free radical it will easily donate the needed electron the the free radical is asking for.

We all know from watching a cut apple turn brown how oxygen reacts with substances to break them down. This is not a good thing inside our bodies. Of course our tissues need oxygen for survival and here’s the key point: without the protection of antioxidants our cells our vulnerable to unnecessary oxidation that can cause extensive harm to our tissues, organs and systems. An antioxidant is a substance that is capable of donating that missing electron nutralizing the harmful affect of a free radical. Antioxidants are measured by their ORAC value (oxygen radical absorbance capacity).

As professional flight crew were are exposed to a tremendous amount of ultraviolet and gamma radiation from the sun in the upper atmosphere creating free radicals. Much more than the average individual. In addition, we breath in enormous amounts of air pollution from burnt jet fuel exhaust on the ground. Have you ever wondered why when you have extensive ground delays out on a taxiway it makes for an especially fatiguing day? I believe its due to all the air pollution we breath in from the aircraft in front of us in the line-up again creating free radicals that our bodies have to deal with. I don’t have to tell anyone what lack of sleep does to us.

So what do we do? We need to take a high quality supplement that is loaded with anti-oxidant as well as other phytonutrients. Phytonutrients are substances in plants (fruits and vegetables) that provide a myriad of nutrition that scientists are only recently begin-ning to discover.

Enter Nanogreens

As a professional flight crew member and a healthcare professional I have extensively researched this topic and I have found the highest quality antioxidant/phytonutrient rich supplement on the market. Nanogreens has an extremely high ORAC value. Nanogreens is not only the highest quality green-food supplement on the market, it just happens to be the best tasting as well.

I can tell you from my personal experience, I have considerably more energy and men-tal alertness at the end of the day when I’ve taken Nanogreen than when I haven’t. Not only that but my whole family including my two girls ages 6 and 4 take it every day. By the way, my kids ask for more. It truly tastes that good. To read more about the manu-facturing process and the patented liposomal delivery system that puts Nanogreens head and shoulder above the rest of the products on the market go this this link: www.mybiopharmacy.com/a/1600

If you would like a FREE SAMPLE email me at: david@abundantlife.biz If you are ATL based I will put a sample in your v-file or I can mail you one.

Fly safe In health,
David Sandstrom