A short educational transcript of Dr. Corey Goldberg's second installment on oxidative stress — its internal and external sources, the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in mediating UV and radiation damage, health and skin effects (cancer, pigmentation, aging, wrinkles), and the body's defenses such as superoxide dismutase (SOD). The speaker previews a follow-up episode about GlycoSODin (an antioxidant-boosting product).
Hi there. It's Corey Goldberg again. This is our second installment looking at oxidative stress, where it comes from, how we combat it, and the various types of damage and issues that it causes to our body. So in the first episode, I talked about superoxide dismutase, or sod, as being one of the common enzymes that we have as well as all life forms to combat this oxidative stress. But where does the oxidative stress come from? Well. Well, there are sources both inside and outside of our body. Now, outside of our body is what most people would think about things like smoking, pollution, environmental factors, dietary sources, sunlight and UV exposure. All of these are things outside of us that cause oxidative stress, and our body has to combat that. Now, a lot of people think about ultraviolet light and UV damage to the skin and the aging effect and the cancer that it causes. And this is very true. But one of the things that many people aren't aware of is that the ultraviolet radiation doesn't directly damage our cells very much. A lot of the damage that ultraviolet radiation and other types of radiation cause us is because that radiation actually creates these reactive oxygen species, and that causes oxidative stress. And so, in fact, it's the oxidative stress that's damaging us as a result of the sources of radiation. And so all of these extrinsic or sources outside of our body that causes this oxidative stre on us results in things like cancer and disease states. And as far as our skin and our faces go, of course, this contributes to the appearance of pigmentation, redness, aging, thinning of the skin, wrinkles. And so all of these extrinsic sources certainly damage us and also includes our skin and how it appears. Now, our body has defenses, the sod, or superoxide dismutase molecule, to try and combat against this. And so certainly one question you would ask is, is it possible to increase these antioxidant defenses that we have? And the answer to that is yes. And we'll talk about that in our next episode where I'll discuss a product called Glycodin antiaging, which is a source of increasing our own antioxidant defenses. See you soon.
