An antioxidant is a substance that helps protect your cells from damage caused by free radicals
Free radicals are unstable molecules that your body produces as a reaction to the environmental (e.g. pollution, smoking, radiation, or stress, unhealthy foods).
Free radicals can cause oxidative stress, which may damage cells and contribute to aging and other health issues, including fertility issues as well as endometriosis, PCOS, Hashimoto’s and poor sperm quality.
The good news is that reducing oxidative stress and increasing antioxidant intake can improve fertility as well as endometriosis, PCOS, Hashimoto’s and sperm quality.
Below is a list of some foods rich in antioxidants.
Some powerful antioxidants with proven benefits fertility as well as endometriosis, PCOS, Hashimoto’s and sperm quality are impossible to get from the diet. It is worth considering a fertility supplement which includes these antioxidants such as;
- · Alpha lipic acid
- · Carnitine
- · Co-enzyme q10
- · N-acetyl carnitine
- · N-acetyl cysteine
one such product is Fertility Phix which contains these 5 antioxidants + 22 other fertility nutrients
Perhaps the most comprehensive assessment of the antioxidant content of foods and drinks, ever, was published in the prestigious: ‘Nutrition Journal’
The scientists behind this research directly assessed the antioxidant content of over 3,000 foods, drinks as well as spices and herbs! The results uncovered that the antioxidant content of foods varies several thousand-fold and that antioxidant rich foods originate from the plant kingdom while meat, fish and other foods from the animal kingdom are low in antioxidants. Diets comprised mainly of animal based foods are thus low in antioxidant content while diets based mainly on a variety of plant-based foods are antioxidant rich, due to the thousands of bioactive antioxidant phytochemicals found in plants.
Although spices and herbs contribute little weight on the dinner plate, they may still be important contributors to our antioxidant intake, especially in dietary cultures where spices and herbs are used regularly
