Your cells rust from the inside out as you age, driven by oxidative stress and a harmful molecule called peroxynitrite. The damage accumulates like orange buildup in old pipes, but can be cleared and prevented with the right approach.
What is oxidative stress? What's nitrosative stress? I tell all my patients, it just means getting rusty inside. As we get older, we get rusty, and that rust is caused by oxidative stress, right? Think about a pipe of a 200-year-old house, and in that metal pipe, over the years, there gets this orange buildup, layer upon layer upon layer, and that layer is just layers of rust. It's like the pipes in London. And as we get older, the pipes in our body are getting rusty. So I think about oxidative stress, and when you use that analogy, people start to understand, man, I'm getting rusty, and How do I prevent this rust buildup and what's causing it? How do we clear it out? So peroxynitrite is a very powerful oxidative and nitrosative stress molecule, and that is one of the things we need to be thinking about.
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