Free-radical stress and its effects on our health and longevity are of justifiable concern to many people. Because free-radicals are created as part of normal biological processes, our bodies have built-in methods for neutralizing or ‘scavenging’ them. However, today’s toxic environment and life styles have enormously increased the free-radical stress our bodies must now balance or deactivate to maintain good health. Fortunately, nature has provided an abundance of natural antioxidant food nutrients and botanicals that actually scavenge free-radicals in the body as well as enhance the body’s own production of antioxidant enzymes. These nutrients and botanicals may be further enhanced through the use of culturing, a technique people have used for thousands of years to preserve and improve the health benefits of foods.