NADH has a direct, positive role in many of the body's cells (like the immune system, the repair of damaged DNA and damaged cells). This is in addition to NADH's primary role in energy production. The next few pages describe one function: NADH as the most biologically potent antioxidant.

NADH is nature's superman of biological antioxidants defending against the damage caused by free radicals.

Antioxidant Summary:
An antioxidant is nature's way to neutralize free radicals. An antioxidant is a scavenger of free radicals. Free radicals damage the body's cells in a variety of ways.

Medical science has shown that free radicals are involved in the development of neuro-degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Free radicals have also shown to be involved in the development of Parkinson’s disease auto immune disease, cancer, coronary disease, artherosclerosis, diabetes, and much more.

NADH, on the basis of its biochemical features, has the strongest positive effect in fighting the threat of free radicals and their potential to do damage.

High reduction power:
NADH has strong antioxidant features, in addition to all its other functions. NADH is the body's most potent biological antioxidant. In terms of biochemistry, aging is a transition from an energy rich state to an energy poor state. An energy rich state is also called the reduced form. An energy poor state is also called the oxidized form. An analogy would be oxidized steel (or rusted metal) is the poorer of the two states of the metal. In biology it is much the same way:

• An energy rich state is the reduced form of a biological compound.
• An energy poor state is the oxidized form of a compound.

NADH is the reduced form (energy rich) of the biological compound called coenzyme #1. It is called coenzyme #1 based on its level of importance to the body. It's the highest ranking coenzyme in the body.

Coenzyme #1 is the substance within the cell with the highest reduction power of all biologically active compounds. This is a complex topic, but we are attempting to teach you why: NADH has the number one antioxidative capability.

The high reducing power of NADH is used in creating energy. The body uses excess NADH as its scavenger of free radicals. Remember this is coenzyme #1. It does the scavenging of free radicals better than any other biological substance known to the body.

Free radicals:

Free radicals cause good hard working cells to turn bad

. . . What does NADH do, part 3?
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