Detect Cell Damage in Minutes!
Free radicals play an important role, both in health and disease. They have been implicated in countless human disease proceses, but are also vital to human health. Any molecule can become a free radical by either losing or gaining an electron. Molecules containing these uncoupled electrons are very reactive. Once free radicals are initiated, they tend to propagate by becoming involved in chain reactions with other less reactive species. The chain reaction compounds generally have longer half-lives and therefore extend the potential for cellular damage.
The life of a free radical has three stages: the initiation stage, propagation stage, and finally the termination stage. Free radicals are terminated or neutralized by nutrient antioxidants, enzymatic mechanisms, or by recombining with each other. The quest is to find that delicate balance between free radical activity and optimum antioxidant therapy - thus achieving homeostasis.
The OxiData Test is a technological breakthrough wihic has been developed by reseachers in a major university has been developed by researchers in a major university hospital to help in this important quest. This test measures the distant end of the polyunsaturated fat chain where aldehydes form as a result of free radical attacks. It is particularty valuable because it tests urine where aldehyde activity is much more concentrated. Research has shown that urinary MDA readings provide a global index of oxidative stress.
FREE RADICAL MEASURING MECHANISM
In the process of free radical production in the body there are certain chemical by-products produced. One of these products is malondialdehyde (MDA), which is the substance that produces the color reaction in the OxiDataR Test.
TEST VALIDATIONS
The OxiData Test is a colorimetric (color absorbent) reading from the urine, whick has evolved frome blood/plasma flurometric data. The test was scientifically validated by means of the Conti Fluorometric assay. This is a highly sensitive laboratory test that can measure minute quantities of MDA present in the body fluids.
The test was scientifically validated by means of the Conti Flourometric assay in the laboratory. This is a highly sensitve test that can measure minute quantities of MDA present in body fluids.
The Oxidata Test is not a quantitiative test, nor is it diagnostic test for any particular disease condition. The OxiData Test provides a useful, nutritional guide in the form of a color chart that helps determine the amount of oxidative activity in the body and can be helpful in making appropriate lifestyle and dietary changes.