Pulse Health creates unprecedented access to key health drivers through inexpensive, accurate and noninvasive medical testing.
The Pulse Health innovation is their reagent technology. Originally used in alcohol breathalyzer tests, Pulse Health’s reagent reacts colormetrically to chemicals in exhaled breath. Pulse Health created REVELAR™, a clinical testing device that measures free radical damage.
REVELAR is the first device that provides an immediate, reliable measurement of free radical damage. This provides consumers the ability to monitor the results of supplementation, diet and lifestyle choices.
What are free radicals?
Why monitor free radical damage?
What are antioxidants?
What are the effects of free radicals?
What contributes to free radicals?
How can free radical damage be measured?
What are free radicals?
A free radical is an unstable molecule that has one or more unpaired electrons in its outer electron shell. Free radicals essentially steal an electron from other molecules to make themselves stable, initiating a potentially damaging chain reaction. Compromised molecules become unstable free radicals and continue the process of stealing electrons from other healthy atoms or groups of atoms. Free radicals are most commonly produced from the body’s processing of oxygen, so a certain amount is inevitable. An excess amount is damaging.
Why monitor free radical damage?
In excess, free radicals can contribute to premature aging, as well as increase the risk of cancer, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis. Knowing their free radical score allows individuals and their wellness practitioners to take preventative health measures, such as modifying exercise programs or introducing antioxidants or nutritional supplements to a diet. By monitoring free radical damage, patients and caregivers can obtain immediate feedback about the efficacy of an adopted health plan or product.
What are antioxidants?
The body’s defense system of antioxidants protects it from reactive oxygen-based free radicals. Antioxidants are stable molecules and can donate electrons to free radicals without becoming unstable themselves, thus ending a destructive chain reaction and protecting the body from oxidative stress.
Antioxidants can prevent or slow the damage caused by free radicals, and wellness practitioners often introduce antioxidants and nutritional supplements to a preventative health plan to improve health, slow the aging process and defend against a myriad of other diseases. While some antioxidants are enzymes only produced by the body, others—such as beta-carotene, lycopene, vitamin C, vitamin E and vitamin A—come from a nutritious diet.
What are the effects of free radicals?
Excessive levels of free radicals can result in a condition called oxidative stress, which may lead to premature aging or chronic illness. Because of its potential to damage tissue, excessive free radical activity also may cause susceptibility to conditions such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease, among other ailments.
What contributes to free radicals?
Genetics, poor diet, and lack of exercise are all factors that can weaken cell bonds and, in turn, generate free radicals. Other sources of free radicals include the residual effects of the body’s interaction with herbicides and pesticides, alcohol, ultraviolet light, and air pollution like cigarette smoke.
How can free radical damage be measured?
The most common testing for free radical damage has been carried out in laboratories with blood or urine samples. While accurate, such tests are costly and invasive.
Pulse Health uses breathalyzer technology to make rapid, precise and noninvasive testing of free radical damage possible. Equipped with specialized patented breath tubes, REVELAR reads the concentration of aldehydes in the breath and provides an accurate free radical score in less than one minute. Greater concentrations of aldehydes – a byproduct of oxidative stress – may indicate higher oxidative stress and thus higher risk for early aging or certain diseases. Healthcare professionals may then use the free radical score to guide patients in lowering their free radicals and improving their health.