Catalase
An enzyme the body makes that breaks down hydrogen peroxide.
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Why is sod so critical? First of all, what is sod? Super oxide dismutace is a key antioxidant enzyme that our body creates. We have genes sod 1, 2, and three to make three different versions of sod. These three different versions are all designed to operate in different
areas within our body. So there's mitochondrial sod, intracellular, and extracellular sod. Meaning sod is used within the mitochondria to reduce or to neutralize super oxides as well as out
in the cytoplasm of the cell. Extracellular sod is very interesting and that's what's used all throughout your body sent around in different places throughout your bloodstream and where sod is used to just heal where it needs to where it needs to heal. So sod
is critical to protect us against the reactive oxygen species super oxide. So super oxides are created uh during the detox process. Uh you can even just breathe them in uh through any kind of toxins and other issues. Super oxides
are pretty much everywhere and so our body has the defense mechanism of using superoxide dismutase to protect against these superoxides. But once you make a super oxide or once you neutralize a super oxide into hydrogen peroxide, what do you do next? Well, there's a chain of
antioxidants that work right after sod. And that's the catalase to glutathione peroxidase down to glutathione itself to help stabilize and keep changing those toxins into safer versions of themselves until it's finally just water and air, water and oxygen. That's why sod is
critical. So, what does this actually mean to a person? Sod is extremely anti- antioxidant protective as well as very anti-inflammatory. Sod is majorly beneficial if you have a lot of inflammation built up around your body.
So for me um having dealt with fibromyalgia as well as MTHFR, varsod is a very important supplement for me to be taking because it helps to stabilize the the oxidative stress that happens. This is just a little bit about why sod is so
important.