The chemical aging process with which you are probably most familiar is oxidation. In the catabolic process of oxidation, body tissues are 'burnt' or 'rusted' by unbalanced and untamed high energy substances known as free radicals. Many of those free radicals can come from the mitochondrial electron transport chain when there is insufficient oxygen available to receive the spent electrons at the end of the chain. That is an all-too-common tissue condition known as hypoxia. Free radicals seek to steal an electron wherever they can find one. If they take one from a lipid bilayer membrane, it tends to initiate a chain reaction, like a 'fire' in that oily layer. Our fundamental protections against this oxidative aging process are the components of the intracellular antioxidant system. These compounds, including Vitamin C, not only protect the cell against this damage, but they also support each other by regenerating the active forms of the compounds when they are spent in that protective process. That's why we developed a unique Functional Formulation that supplies the complete intracellular antioxidant network, called Synergy C. Synergy C is also synergistic with the alkaline, anti-oxidant, ionized water described above.