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🔥 Dealing with constant inflammation? Try VARS SOD. Protect your body at the cellular level.

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Hi. What is sod? Why is it important? It's not some plug of grass you put in your front yard or backyard. Sod is super oxide disbutase. Super oxide disbutase is the second most potent antioxidant in your body. Super oxides are oxygen molecules minus two electrons

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and they're everywhere in your body. They're everywhere in every animal. And they cause massive damage and destruction wherever they go. Think of it like a BB. Well, no. Think of it more like a bowling ball in a china shop and an earthquake goes off and that that bowling ball is just ricocheting through

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the room doing damage to all the crystal. So there are three forms of super oxide dismutace and each one is in a specific part of your body your anatomy and they do specific things. The first sod one is the super oxide dismutase for your nerves. It dismutes

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the super oxides in your nerves and prevents nerve damage. If you don't have a very functional sod one, you can develop the familial type of ALS or L Garrick's disease. But sod 2 protects your mitochondria and the DNA in there

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and it prevents cancer cuz if you damage your DNA and that mitochondria, it's able to mutate or form a mutation that can cause certain cancers or any kind of cancer. So you want to be able to help the super oxides in your mitochondrial

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space. Sod three is ubiquitous sod or extracellular sod. It's everywhere in your body. It's in your arteries. It's in your brain. It's in your bones. It's in your joints. It's everywhere. If you don't make enough sod 3 and sod and sod one and we have ways to test for that

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and genetics will show me that, then you need to have sod replacement. No one's ever really address these problems. We don't know why. So, we're doing this. We have our bar sod capsules which has both sod one, saw two, saw three in it, and our rejuve gel, which has sod two and

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saw three in it. And they work extremely well. Especially if you can't make sod or sod. If you have problems making both, we can deal with it. We'll find out. If you have a lot of inflammation, you can't figure out what's causing them, you might need our help. So, please reach out to us and let's see if

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