(4) Phytate is a moderately powerful antioxidant which will partly block the damage to our cells
inflicted by free radicals.
It also performs the heavy function of fighting inflammation and damage
inflicted by free radicals on the brain, by helping blood flow more easily across the blood brain barrier.
Not exact matches
Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear
inflicted upon the cell
by toxic molecules called
free radicals — in the aging process.
But she's baffled
by how
free radicals — which have very short lifetimes and travel short distances — could reach the nucleus of even adjacent cells in time to
inflict DNA damage.