Did you know?
Did you know?
- Toxins like smoke from cigarettes and vapes, chemicals, pesticides and pollution cause free radicals.
- Toxins from drinking too much alcohol or carbonated fizzy drinks cause free radicals.
- Toxins from eating braai vleis, deep-fried foods, unhealthy fast foods, ready-made meals, refined sugars, sweets, salty chips and shisa nyama cause free radicals.
- Exercising too little, exercising a lot for endurance events or working on your feet all day cause free radicals.
- High stress and anxiety levels cause free radicals.
- Chronic illnesses and certain medications cause free radicals.
What does an Antioxidant do?
- Antioxidants neutralise harmful free radicals.
- Antioxidants reduce the impact of oxidative damage.
- Antioxidants lower oxidative stress.
- Antioxidants support metabolic health.
- Antioxidants may increase energy levels.
- Antioxidants are great for your heart health.
- Antioxidants may help you through stressful times.
- Antioxidants are good for your hair, skin and nails.
- Antioxidants are beneficial for eyesight.
- Antioxidants lower inflammation.
- Antioxidants may boost brain function.
- Oxiprovin is a balanced and natural antioxidant.
What are free radicals?
- You are made up of 100 trillion living cells to form tissues that are always being replaced.
- To support life your cells use oxygen to produce energy. This process makes free radicals. Free radicals are the by-products of being alive.
- You also make free radicals from the unhealthy toxins that you breathe, that you consume and that you apply onto your skin.
- The more toxins you have and you are exposed to, the more free radicals you have.
- Too many free radicals cause harm and destroy the cells around them.
What is oxidative stress?
- An overload of free radicals results in oxidative stress in your body.
- Too much oxidative stress creates oxidative damage throughout your body.
- Oxidative damage produces inflammation, harms tissues and may damage your DNA.
- Too much oxidative stress is implicated as the root cause of many illnesses.
- Oxidative stress has been linked to accelerated ageing and inflammation leading to weaker immune function, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, certain cancers and neurological illnesses.
What is grape seed extract?
- Grape seed extract is a natural antioxidant that neutralises free radicals, lowers oxidative stress and protects you against oxidative damage.
- You make antioxidants inside your body and you get them from your diet.
- Colourful fruits and vegetables, wholefoods, raw nuts and seeds and grapes are good sources of antioxidants.
- Grape seed extract is rich in a type of antioxidant called polyphenols (oligomeric proanthocyanidins).
- These polyphenols are antioxidant compounds. Grape vines make them to survive that protect them from pests, the weather and threats called stressors. They are stored in the grape seeds.
- When extracted, these antioxidants can be used therapeutically to fight free radicals.
- Oxiprovin is a natural grape seed extract that is made from fresh South African grape seeds.
What are free radicals?
- You are made up of 100 trillion living cells to form tissues that are always being replaced.
- To support life your cells use oxygen to produce energy. This process makes free radicals. Free radicals are the by-products of being alive.
- You also make free radicals from the unhealthy toxins that you breathe, that you consume and that you apply onto your skin.
- The more toxins you have and you are exposed to, the more free radicals you have.
- Too many free radicals cause harm and destroy the cells around them.
Did you know?
- Toxins like smoke from cigarettes and vapes, chemicals, pesticides and pollution cause free radicals.
- Toxins from drinking too much alcohol or carbonated fizzy drinks cause free radicals.
- Toxins from eating braai vleis, deep-fried foods, unhealthy fast foods, ready-made meals, refined sugars, sweets, salty chips and shisa nyama cause free radicals.
- Exercising too little, exercising a lot for endurance events or working on your feet all day cause free radicals.
- High stress and anxiety levels cause free radicals.
- Chronic illnesses and certain medications cause free radicals.
What is oxidative stress?
- An overload of free radicals results in oxidative stress in your body.
- Too much oxidative stress creates oxidative damage throughout your body.
- Oxidative damage produces inflammation, harms tissues and may damage your DNA.
- Too much oxidative stress is implicated as the root cause of many illnesses.
- Oxidative stress has been linked to accelerated ageing and inflammation leading to weaker immune function, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, certain cancers and neurological illnesses.
What does an Antioxidant do?
- Antioxidants neutralise harmful free radicals.
- Antioxidants reduce the impact of oxidative damage.
- Antioxidants lower oxidative stress.
- Antioxidants support metabolic health.
- Antioxidants may increase energy levels.
- Antioxidants are great for your heart health.
- Antioxidants may help you through stressful times.
- Antioxidants are good for your hair, skin and nails.
- Antioxidants are beneficial for eyesight.
- Antioxidants lower inflammation.
- Antioxidants may boost brain function.
- Oxiprovin is a balanced and natural antioxidant.
What is grape seed extract?
- Grape seed extract is a natural antioxidant that neutralises free radicals, lowers oxidative stress and protects you against oxidative damage.
- You make antioxidants inside your body and you get them from your diet.
- Colourful fruits and vegetables, wholefoods, raw nuts and seeds and grapes are good sources of antioxidants.
- Grape seed extract is rich in a type of antioxidant called polyphenols (oligomeric proanthocyanidins).
- These polyphenols are antioxidant compounds. Grape vines make them to survive that protect them from pests, the weather and threats called stressors. They are stored in the grape seeds.
- When extracted, these antioxidants can be used therapeutically to fight free radicals.
- Oxiprovin is a natural grape seed extract that is made from fresh South African grape seeds.
Antioxidants – like grape seed extract – work in multiple ways in the body to fight free radicals, lower oxidative stress and prevent oxidative damage.
Neutralises free radicals without creating further inflammation.
Lowers the free radicals caused by health conditions.
Directly protects cells, tissues and organs from oxidative damage.
Shields and repairs DNA from oxidative damage.
Stimulates the body to make more of its own antioxidants.
Benefits of grape seed extract:
- Antidiabetic.
- Cancer-protective properties.
- Cardioprotective properties (protects the heart).
- Combats insulin resistance.
- Faster muscle recovery.
- Healthier circulation.
- Hepatoprotective (protects the liver).
- Immune support.
- Lowers LDL (bad) cholesterol.
- Neuroprotective and anti-ageing.
- Quicker wound healing.
- Systemic anti-inflammatory (works throughout the body).
How does grape seed extract work?
Grape seed extract is a special antioxidant that combats free radicals on three levels.
1. Protects and prevents lipid peroxidation
- Stops free radicals from damaging certain components of every cell in the body called the lipid layer.
- This is the outer layer of every cell in the human body.
- The lipid layer holds cells together and makes them strong through the cell membrane.
- Stops free radicals from breaking down the outer layer of the cell membrane.
- It prevents and protects against lipid peroxidation.
2. Protects the health of your endothelium
- Protects free radicals from harming the health of the endothelium.
- This is a single layer of cells that line your arteries, veins and capillaries.
- Your endothelium is in direct contact with your blood.
- Free radicals damage your endothelium when you are inflamed or have an inflammatory response through illness, stress, toxins or ageing.
- Fights free radicals from causing further oxidative damage to your endothelium.
3. Helps the immune system’s signalling pathways
- Neutralises free radicals in the immune system for a more appropriate immune response.
- When there is too much oxidative stress in the immune system some immune cells cause an exaggerated inflammatory response which can be damaging.
- Some immune system cells self-destruct through apoptosis causing more inflammation. Antioxidants help reduce this.
- Upregulates the body into producing more of its own protective antioxidants.