The Antioxidant That's 6,000 Times More Powerful Than Vitamin C
We’ve known for a while now that antioxidants are our most effective weapon against the cell-damaging free radicals that cause oxidation and inflammation throughout our bodies. Free radicals literally accelerate the aging process, making way too many of us feel “old” and tired during what should be the best years of our lives.
It’s been more than 50 years since Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling shook the medical world to the core with his breakthrough book, Vitamin C and the Common Cold which quickly became a bestselling sensation.
Finally, vitamin C got the attention it deserved, and millions of people began taking this powerful antioxidant to help build resistance and maintain good health.
And Dr. Pauling’s work helped trigger the avalanche of antioxidant research that followed.
And while vitamin C remains a popular remedy to boost immunity and combat the common cold and other seasonal ailments, in recent years, groundbreaking research has shown astaxanthin (pronounced asta-zan– thin), a rare, deep red-colored carotenoid found in microalgae, to be perhaps the most powerful antioxidant available in nature:
- 100 times stronger than vitamin E
- 550 times stronger than green tea (EGCG)
- 800 times stronger than CoQ10
- And 6,000 times stronger than vitamin C
Unlike most water-soluble antioxidants, which simply circulate throughout your bloodstream, astaxanthin is fat-soluble, which means it has the remarkable ability to actually integrate itself into every cell, tissue and organ in your body where it can neutralize health-robbing free radicals.
And it is especially effective at combatting a particularly damaging form of free radical oxidation called singlet oxygen.
To live, each of us relies on the oxygen we receive from the 25,000 or so breaths we take each day. But our oxygen-rich world carries the inevitable risk of oxidative stress, because over time, oxygen, when combined with sunlight, damages all organic matter.
Think of a nail that is exposed to the outdoor elements. At first the nail is smooth and shiny but, as the years go by, oxidation causes it to rust more and more until it eventually becomes rough and brittle.
Astaxanthin is the best antioxidant on earth at neutralizing the “rusting out” that results from this singlet oxygen oxidation process, and it is dramatically more powerful in this regard than other potent antioxidants*