We often hear words like antioxidant oxidative stress free radicals and reactive oxygen species thrown around all the time in skincare and diet and supplements ,what do they all mean? One of the ways in which your body ages is through oxidative stress which is a fancy way of saying free radical damage.Everything in this world that we currently see with our eyes,feel and even smell are made of molecules or single atoms.Floating around, doing their thing that includes the air that we breathe, and our skin obviously.When we take a look at atoms, they are made up of a pair of electrons that circle around a shell,normal ones will have two,but sometimes one of these electrons is missing, and that's what we're referring to when we talk about free radicals.So what this means now is that it's moving in a radical and destructive way because it doesn't have a paired electron.Free radicals in nature tend to destroy things. When we take a look at atoms,they are made up of a pair o...
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