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Scientists Discover
Energy Boosting Antioxidant
updated 6/30/2009
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Story Highlights:
- In the past people often consumed stimulants and sugar to boost energy, now a specific antioxidant has been identified that boosts energy naturally
- World champion athletes use antioxidant Quercetin to support immune system and boost energy
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Until recently many people in need of an energy boost relied on stimulants and sugar.
In the short term they felt an energy boost, but later had to deal with the energy low that followed. Also, with stimulants and sugar, some people experienced anxiety, jumpiness, might have had trouble sleeping, and over time, stimulants can deplete the body’s adrenal system, leading to greater fatigue. Now scientists have proved that the antioxidant Quercetin boosts energy. The sustained energy boost that you get from Quercetin is different from the boost from a stimulant, because Quercetin enhances your body’s natural energy production system. This discovery could revolutionize the energy supplement and energy drink industry, like electric cars are revolutionizing the auto industry. Electric cars drive like gas engine cars, but the way they create the power is completely different. Similarly, Quercetin boosts energy but the way the energy is created is different. Stimulants boost energy by forcing your system to release more energy which leads to an energy high followed by an energy low. Quercetin has been shown in preliminary animal studies to increase the amount of mitochondria in cells in muscle and brain tissue. Since mitochondria produce energy, if you have more mitochondria, your system can produce more energy at the cellular level. In this case you’re not depleting your energy stores, you’re producing more energy. |
Quercetin In The News
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The general health benefits of antioxidants have been studied for many years. Antioxidants have been shown to prevent and repair cellular damage caused by free radicals. Antioxidants act as "free radical scavengers" and prevent and repair damage done by these free radicals, and may also enhance immune defense. Everyone is exposed to free radicals through by-products of normal processes that take place in your body (such as the burning of sugars for energy and the release of digestive enzymes to break down food) and from pollutants. Health problems such as heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, and many other diseases have been linked to damage from free radicals.
Today it is accepted science that antioxidants are beneficial to health, but in the future, people will also connect antioxidants with sustained energy. Several years ago, researchers at Harvard University were studying the health promoting properties of the antioxidant Quercetin, and much to their surprise, they saw that their test subjects reported less fatigue and more sustained energy when consuming the antioxidant, Quercetin.
Quercetin naturally occurs in fruits and vegetables like grapes, apples, and onions, but to get a significant amount of Quercetin from fruits and vegetables, you’d have to eat more fruits and vegetables per day than is possible. So the only practical way to realize the benefits of Quercetin is by taking Quercetin supplements.
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