Researchers revealed that in individuals likely to develop asthma the host antioxidant defense system is compromised, and so these people might be less capable of handling environmental exposures which might result in asthma. (ahealthblog.com)
Our body will adapt to actually create more stronger antioxidant defense system when we do that. (justinhealth.com)
They injected rats fed virgin coconut oil (VCO) for 10 days with MTX and compared the results of livers from rats injected with MTX without VCO protection and determined there are ``... antioxidant and hepatoprotective [liver protective] effects of VCO supplementation against hepatotoxicity and oxidative damage via improving antioxidant defense system in rats.» (healthimpactnews.com)