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Editorial Review: 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...
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2 of 2 found this review helpful:
Changed My Life, 2007-10-27
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.
3 of 3 found this review helpful:
Great Book - a clear explanation of a difficult topic, 2007-08-04
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.
3 of 3 found this review helpful:
Amazing book, 2007-05-23
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.
4 of 4 found this review helpful:
So you think you take the right dietary supplements!, 2006-11-11
I was given the title of this book by a friend, who suggested I read it. I was recovering from surgery for breast cancer, and what I read in this book made me realise that I needed to change my diet supplements to include a regime of anti-oxidants, both to help protect myself from further bouts of cancer, and to increase my general health by giving my body the building blocks it needs to heal itself. The book was easy to read, and extremely well referenced.
7 of 7 found this review helpful:
Breakthrough Information, 2006-04-10
This book truly made a great impact in my life. My husband and I are glad that we are taking the right path to a healthy lifestyle after reading Dr. Packer's book. We have been taking supplements that contains the optimum amount of antioxidants mentioned by Dr. Packer especially lipoic acid. Our health greatly improved most specially my husband who is already a candidate for diabetes.
Now, we know the reason why many of our friends commented that we looked younger than our age and my husband lost so much weight but looked healthier and younger than ever. We realized now that the reason for this was because of the antioxidants present in our supplement.
My husband usually experiences numbness. After taking supplements rich in lipoic acid, he no longer experiences it. His urine as well is often swarmed by ants. But this has stopped after taking supplements rich in antioxidants mentioned by Dr. Packer.
Health is Wealth. This book will truly change the way you view your lifestyle. It will make you see things you have never seen before. Health is very important for us because my husband and I are business people and if our health fails us, we don't know what to do. We have two great kids who cries just the idea of us getting old.
If your family and people you love matters to you, read this book and recommend that they read it also. This is the one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself and your family.
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