Articles in Bone & Joint Health
Free Radicals and Muscle Flexibility
As we get older, our bodies get stiffer, and we gradually lose the natural flexibility we once possessed as children. Why does this happen? Flexibility comes not just from stretching, but from possessing adequate current flow in your body.
While babies are born very flexible, if you were to feed a child a diet of free-radical inducing foods – such as fried foods – that child would lose flexibility very quickly. This is because free radicals rob electrons from the body, which then leads to abnormal tissue oxidation. This in turn causes the collagenous and elastic connective tissues located around your muscles to ‘stick’ to each other (called cross-linking), which is a leading cause of stiffness.
