Natural Vitamin Health Blog
Natural Vitamin Health: What are Free Radicals?What are "free radicals," exactly? They aren't young, free-thinking activists, for one thing, but that's not too far off either: free radicals are essentially atoms gone rogue. Normally, when atoms split off from a molecule, each one leaves with the correct number of electrons for its size in its outer shell, but when they're missing an electron, they go berserk, "looking" all over the place for an electron to steal.
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