VCO supplementation prior to MTX injection attenuated MTX - induced oxidative nephrotoxicity via prominent increases in GSH and
antioxidant enzyme activities in a dose - dependent manner.
In a study of forty overweight women between 20 and 35 years of age that were randomly divided into 2 groups who consumed meal replacements containing either white rice or mixture of brown rice and black rice, it was concluded that replacing meals with mixed rice was superior to white rice for weight control, and
improved antioxidant enzyme activity, and as such, should be recommended for diet therapy in obese women.
People have 2 means of building antioxidant defense: the increase of dietary intake of antioxidants, known as the «non-enzymatic approach;» and to strengthen the host defense system to more effectively make use of
antioxidant enzyme activity for removing oxidants from the system, known as the «enzymatic approach.»
Three of the identified mechanisms behind these healing effects are its ability to accelerate re-epithelialization,
improve antioxidant enzyme activity, and stimulate higher collagen cross-linking within the tissue being repaired.
VCO supplementation prior to MTX injection attenuated MTX - induced oxidative nephrotoxicity via prominent increases in GSH and
antioxidant enzyme activities in a dose - dependent manner.