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My Granddaughter Had To Open A Jar Of Jam For Me. Then A Friend On A Park Bench Asked About One Antioxidant Nobody Had Mentioned In Years.
A retired florist from Oregon on stiff hands, tired eyes and slow mornings, and the everyday nutrition question she wishes she had asked much sooner.
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Diane is an illustrative composite based on the stories customers share with us. Individual results vary.
Please take five minutes and read this before you write it off as "just getting older."
I am not a doctor, and nothing here replaces your own. I am a 66-year-old who spent years taking the wrong things for the right reasons. What changed for me started with one question from a friend, about one antioxidant that nobody had ever brought up with me.
The Afternoon I Knew Something Had To Change
I ran a flower shop for 34 years. I wired corsages, stripped thorns off roses by the bucket and tied wedding bouquets before dawn. My hands were how I made my living, and I was proud of them.
So it is strange to admit that the lowest point was a jar of strawberry jam.
My granddaughter Lily, who was ten, had come over to bake thumbprint cookies with me, the way we did every autumn. I needed the jam for the centres. I twisted the lid, then twisted again, and my knuckles simply would not close hard enough to turn it.
Lily took the jar out of my hands, popped it open and said, "Here you go, Grandma," without even looking up.
She meant nothing by it. I went into the pantry afterwards and cried anyway.
Somewhere along the way I had stopped being the grandmother who could do anything with her hands. I had become the one who needed help with a jar.
Everything I Tried
The stiffness crept in during my late fifties, along with eyes that tired long before the rest of me did. My doctor called it ordinary wear and told me to keep moving. I did, and I tried plenty more:
Some of it was fine. None of it felt like it was doing much. I had a cabinet of bottles and no real idea whether any of them were earning their place.
Meanwhile I stopped offering to do the flowers for friends' parties. I read less in the evenings. I said no to things I used to love, and every no made my world a little smaller.
The Question On The Park Bench
Every Thursday I walked with a group of women from church, and every Thursday I ended up resting on the bench under the cherry trees. One afternoon my friend Marjorie sat down beside me.
Marjorie had dealt with her own stiff hands for years and reads more nutrition research than anyone I know. She looked at the pill organiser in my bag and asked me something I had never been asked:
"Out of all those bottles, has anyone ever talked to you about astaxanthin?"
I had never heard the word. Years of supplements, and not one label or leaflet had mentioned it.
She explained that it was an antioxidant made by a tiny sea algae, and that what she had learned about it finally explained why her own cabinet full of bottles had never seemed to add up. I went home and read about it until midnight. Then I took my notes to my doctor.
The Everyday Wear Happening Inside Your Cells
Every cell in your body makes energy all day long. A by-product of that work is a steady stream of unstable molecules called free radicals. Sunlight, screens and the simple passing of years add to the pile.
Your body has its own defences to mop them up. For most of our lives, they keep pace.
Here is the part that stopped me cold. As we get older, those natural defences tend to fall behind the daily load, and the extra wear lands on the busiest tissues: the ones in your joints, your eyes and your skin.*
When the wear gets ahead
The load builds a little every day. Mornings get slower, eyes tire sooner, and you start passing jars to other people.
We call this pattern Oxidative Wear. It does not show up on an X-ray or an eye chart, but you feel it in the way your body handles an ordinary day.
Suddenly, Everything Made Sense
I sat at the kitchen table with my notes and, for the first time in years, the pieces fit together:
Why the fish oil was not the whole answer
Omega-3 fats are useful, but they are not designed to be the antioxidant that shields a cell's outer layer.
Why the glucosamine felt so narrow
It is aimed at one tissue. It was never meant to help my eyes or my skin.
Why the multivitamin felt like nothing
The antioxidants in most multivitamins come in small amounts, and many of them work mainly in the watery part of the cell.
Why the creams and drops stopped at the surface
They help where you put them. They do not change what is happening inside the cells underneath.
My body was not simply "worn out." The daily wear had got ahead of my defences, and nothing I was taking was aimed at helping them catch up.
Not All Antioxidants Are The Same
When I brought this up at my next appointment, my doctor agreed that a diet rich in antioxidants was a sensible thing to focus on, and had no objection to me adding a supplement.
The catch is finding a natural source in a form your body can actually absorb. That is where Marjorie's next suggestion came in.
The Softgel I Take Every Morning
It is called Algaris. It is one 12mg softgel of natural astaxanthin from Haematococcus pluvialis microalgae, the algae that makes it as its own sunscreen, sealed in organic extra virgin olive oil.*
I will be honest: I almost did not order it. I already had a cabinet full of bottles. My husband, Frank, pointed out that Algaris was covered for 90 days, money back, and said, "Then it costs you nothing to find out." I checked it against my other medications with my doctor, and ordered that night.
Natural, not synthetic
Grown from sun-loving microalgae rather than made in a lab from petrochemicals.
Sealed in olive oil
Astaxanthin is fat-soluble, so each softgel comes with the healthy fat it needs to be absorbed.*
One softgel with breakfast. That is the whole routine. I keep the bottle next to the coffee.
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My First 12 Weeks
Day 1
Nothing dramatic, and I would not trust anyone who says there will be. One softgel with my eggs, and on with the day.
Week 2
It had become a habit. I noticed I was reaching for the eye drops a little less in the evenings.*
Week 4
Mornings felt a touch easier. I could make a proper fist around my coffee mug without waiting for my hands to warm up.*
Week 6
I read a whole chapter before bed without rubbing my eyes. Then another one.*
Week 8
Cookie day with Lily. I opened the jam myself and did not say a word. She did not notice. I did.*
Week 12
At my check-up my doctor told me to keep doing what I was doing. I still have stiff days, but far fewer of them.*
*Individual results vary. Diane's timeline is illustrative. Keep following the plan agreed with your own doctor.
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Where I Am Today
It has been a little over a year since my first softgel.
On Saturdays I help my old assistant at her flower stall at the farmers market, trimming stems and tying bouquets like I used to. I read in the evenings again. Lily and I have baked our way through half a cookbook, and I open every jar.
I still take Algaris every morning. It has become part of my routine, like my walk and my coffee. The rubber jar opener I bought "just in case" lives in a drawer.
What I Want You To Know
If you saw yourself anywhere in this letter, here is what I would tell a friend on that bench:
You do not have to keep shrinking your world. I am writing this so fewer people wait as long as I did.
— Diane
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I could tell within a couple of months that this was different for me. Give yourself the chance to find out.
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