Superoxide Dismutase (SOD)
A family of enzymes made by the body that convert superoxide into hydrogen peroxide.
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Superoxide dismutase. It's the baseline firstline defense against superoxide radicals within your cells and throughout your bloodstream throughout your whole body. Super oxide disysmutase is an antioxidant enzyme that protects you against the most harmful free radical out there, superoxides.
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Super oxides come from either metabolism, all the different processes that happen within your cell and actually from uh the detox process. Free radicals are created during that. And so our body has the mechanism to protect itself against these free radicals.
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Protect the cells, protect the proteins that are created in the cells and protect your DNA specifically. That's most important. Vars sod is the most potent version of superoxide dismutase in supplement form on the market right now. It's packed with a full dose of sod
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