What exactly is meant by a “broad” or “full” spectrum antioxidant complex?
You will hear some use “full” spectrum, but no one can use this term properly as researchers have not even discovered the “full” spectrum of free radicals, or their enemy antioxidants. Broad spectrum is the most appropriate language to use. First, there are many forms of free radicals, which are atoms or molecules with an unbalanced electron in their orbit, making them extremely reactive and dangerous because they attack cells and body tissues and can even change DNA cell replication and thus become carcinogenic. Some of the types of free radicals which attack the body are superoxides hydrogen peroxides lipid peroxides singlet oxygen and hydroxyls. Life is sustained with oxygen. Lack of oxygen leads to disease. Cancer, for example, thrives where there is little or no oxygen. This is why, for example, that organic germanium which releases oxygen for cell use is so effective as a therapeutic treatment. However, free radicals of oxygen are among the most dangerous. While PCO’s (proanthocy
