Earthing: The Most Important Healthy Discovery Ever? Chapter 6
Connecting the body to the Earth automatically enables the conductive tissues of the body's living matrix to become charges with the Earth's free electrons."
http://www.vrp.com/neuroendocrine-t...nergy-homeostat-the-source-for-cellular-energ
"stray electrons interact with oxygen to produce superoxide radicals."
Earthing: The Most Important Healthy Discovery Ever? Chapter 6
"It is well established that negative charges (electrons) are attracted to positive charges (free radicals)."
http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/misc_topics/radicals.html
"There are many types of radicals, but those of most concern in biological systems are derived from oxygen, and known collectively as reactive oxygen species.
• superoxide anion [negative]
• peroxide (hydrogen peroxide) [negative]
• hydroxyl radical [neutral]"
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/estatics/Lesson-1/Charge-Interactions
"Opposites attract. And likes repel."
Earthing: The Most Important Healthy Discovery Ever? Chapter 6
"When this occurs, excess or residual immune response free radicals (which are positively charged) suddenly have, as the old song goes, the object of their affection - a readily available supply of free electrons to bond with and reduce their oxidative and inflammatory mode."
http://www.biol.canterbury.ac.nz/people/gieseg/freeradicals.shtml
"Superoxide rather than the hydroxyl radical is the most commonly encountered free radical in biology."
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/101/motm.do?momID=94
"To combat this potential danger, most cells make superoxide dismutase (SOD), an enzyme that detoxifies superoxide. SOD takes two molecules of superoxide, strips the extra electron off of one, and places it on the other. So, one ends up with an electron less, forming normal oxygen, and the other ends up with an extra electron. The one with the extra electron then rapidly picks up two hydrogen ions to form hydrogen peroxide."
http://courses.washington.edu/conj/bloodcells/oxygenradicals.htm
"Most of these cells have superoxide dismutase and another enzyme, catalase (or another enzyme, glutathione peroxidase), which converts the hydrogen peroxide to oxygen and water. In other words, the combination of superoxide dismutase and catalase removes oxygen radicals and thus is protective for cells in the body."
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/29/james-oschman-on-earthing.aspx
"Any free radicals that leak into the healthy tissue will immediately be electrically neutralized. This occurs because the electrons are negative, while the free radicals are positive, so they cancel each other out."
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/05/16/all-about-antioxidants.aspx
"Antioxidants are Your Body's Solution to Counter Excessive Free Radicals
An antioxidant is a molecule capable of inhibiting the oxidation of another molecule. Antioxidants break the free radical chain of reactions by sacrificing their own electrons to feed free radicals, without becoming free radicals themselves.
They are all electron donors.
Antioxidants are nature's way of defending your cells against attack by reactive oxygen species (ROS). Your body naturally circulates a variety of nutrients for their antioxidant properties and manufactures antioxidant enzymes in order to control these destructive chain reactions. For example, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotenes, and lipoic acid are well-known and well-researched antioxidant nutrients.
Your body can manufacture some of these antioxidants, but not others. And your body's natural antioxidant production tends to decline with age.
Fortunately, most of the vegetables you eat are loaded with potent phytochemicals that act as antioxidants. And the closer they are to being harvested, the more potent these antioxidants will be—which is why you should consume the majority of your fruits and vegetables RAW and locally harvested. If you eat vegetables that have been harvested weeks before, as is common in most grocery stores, you will not be reaping much of the potential benefit the food has to offer you."