Sentences with phrase «oxidative damage to our bodies»

Antioxidants are nutrients in our food that work as slowing or preventative agents against oxidative damage to our bodies.

But successful approaches are converging on a few key areas: calorie restriction; reducing levels of insulinlike growth factor 1 (IGF - 1), a protein; and preventing oxidative damage to the body's tissues.

This leads to stress, which causes oxidative damage to the body's cells.

This list will never get smaller.This leads to stress, which causes oxidative damage to the body's cells.

Studies suggest that vitamin C can, therefore, prevent stress - induced oxidative damage to the body, reduce overall inflammation and help prevent chronic illnesses like obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Not exact matches

Foods rich in anti-oxidants are very important for the body to balance the oxidative stress is encounters each day and protect the skin cells from free radical damage.

Over a lifetime, an overactive immune system will contribute to an overproduction of AGE's, advanced glycation end products, initiating oxidative reactions within cells that will gradually damage organs throughout the body.

They're also abundant in phytochemicals and antioxidants, compounds that work to protect the body from oxidative stress and cell damage.

The purpose of catalase in living cells is to protect them from oxidative damage, which can occur when cells or other molecules in the body come into contact with oxidative compounds.

Oxidative stress is damage to the body caused by an accumulation of unstable molecules called free radicals.

The body protects itself against free radicals using antioxidants, but if the level of antioxidants is too low, radiation produces oxidative stress and genetic damage, which leads to aging and death.

«From a health perspective, oxidative stress in the cells causes different types of damage in the body, for example, skin ageing or various infections, contributing to illnesses such as arthritis and Alzheimer's,» says Harri Latva - Mäenpää.

Superoxide is kept in check by the body's own antioxidants, which combine with superoxide to make it less reactive and prevent oxidative damage to cells.

These drugs have been found to increase oxidative stress (a type of cell damage), impair the body's ability to digest fat and damage blood vessels.

As an antioxidant it helps to protect the body from oxidative damage caused by pollution and toxins.

When there are too many free radicals, the body is said to be in a state of oxidative stress, which can damage cells and increase the risk of many diseases including cancer and heart disease (3).

Oxidative stress is the imbalance between production of free radicals that damage cells and the ability of the body to neutralize the free radicals.

The scientists, medical professionals, and athletes on the ground floor of the keto movement can barely contain their excitement over its power to reliably reduce excess body fat, enhance neurological function, protect against diseases of cognitive decline, and slow the rate of inflammation and oxidative damage that are the essence of the (accelerated) aging process.

Prolonged increased stress to cells depletes the body's biological abilities to protect against oxidative damage.

He Shou Wu stimulates the production of Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), the most powerful antioxidant in the human body, which works to protect to cellular DNA from oxidative damage, which is widely believed to be one of the primary causes of aging.

Physical, emotional, and mental stress can reduce the body's supply of antioxidants and leave you susceptible to oxidative damage.4 Proper nutrients can help your nervous system handle stress.

When we glycate, when we sugarcoat our proteins, we create basically a free radical magnet in our body where those proteins attract free radicals and create damage to our DNA and oxidative stress.

Processed, high fat, sugary foods create more oxidative damage and inflammation in the body.1, 2 This leads to greater fatigue, weakened immunity, mood imbalances, and disease.

3 Antioxidants support the body against oxidative stress by providing a pair for unpaired electrons, subverting the damage that would otherwise be done to bodily cells and tissues.

Without an ample supply of the «master antioxidant» glutathione, the human body will be exposed to the damages of oxidative stress.

Glycated proteins and cellular structures have altered function, increased vulnerability to oxidative damage, and reduced degradation and clearance.6 Slowing the entry of glucose into the brain would delay these processes and possibly give the body's defenses more time to dispose of the AGEs.

In addition to having a strong defense against oxidative stress, it is important to optimize the body's ability to heal damaged DNA.

These changes occur as a result of increased oxidative stress, which is an imbalance between free radicals (unstable molecules that damage cells) and the body's ability to defend against them.

The antioxidant - rich juice protect the body from oxidative damage to the cells by free radicals.

Our bodies own antioxidant defence mechanisms are unfortunately not perfect and, consequently, oxidative damage to the building blocks of our body occurs all the time.

Hard exercise of any sort creates free radicals that cause some damage (called «oxidation») to your muscles, cells and organs, and as your body repairs this damage, you experience biochemical adaptations that make you more resistant to future oxidative damage from high volume or high intensity training.

However, nitric oxide production produces adverse reactions and toxic metabolites, which must be neutralized by your body so they don't result in oxidative damage to your blood vessel lining (by peroxynitrite oxidation and nitration reactions).

This leads to increased cholesterol levels, decreased insulin sensitivity, and a decreased ability to prevent oxidative damage done to our bodies.

Curcumin is a remarkably powerful antioxidant, helping to fight oxidative damage and boosting the body's own antioxidant enzymes (27, 28, 29, 30, 31).

In addition to helping maintain an effective, healthy immune system, maqui's antioxidants help neutralise free - radicals in the body and prevent further oxidative stress damage, leading to healthier, and more prolonged cell life.

Consumption of nopal cactus fruit positively affects the body's redox balance, decreases oxidative damage to lipids, and improves antioxidant status in healthy humans

− it has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects; − its potassium load helps the natural detox function of our bodies; − despite its sweet taste, it actually regulates the blood sugar levels giving the high amounts of fiber it contains; − it contains special starch - related molecules with antibacterial and antifungal properties; − its unique storage proteins, sporamins, prevent oxidative damage to our cells.

Oxo - proline may «draw out oxidative stress,» or cause a discrepancy among reactive oxygen and body's capability to restore the damaged cells.

Antioxidants are important because they neutralize free radicals in our bodies that occur every day, and can cause oxidative stress if they're left to cause damage.

Or the opposite can occur... such as when mental, emotional or physical stress is getting the best of us, a situation in which the body will need antioxidants in order to protect cells from the oxidative stress that can damage or initiate premature cell death.

Exercise also enhances your body's ability to handle another type of stress — cellular stress and oxidative damage.

I've written quite a bit about other root causes of Hashimoto's, including toxins like fluoride (which may damage the thyroid), nutrient deficiencies like selenium (Selenium helps to neutralize oxidative stress in the thyroid gland, which occurs whenever we make thyroid hormones), an impaired ability to handle stress that often manifests as adrenal dysfunction (this weakens our natural defenses and suppresses our thyroid production) and chronic infections like Blastocystis hominis (infections can be inside the thyroid, inside the gut, or in another part of the body leading to immune system confusion).

The main job of an antioxidant is to prevent oxidative damage (you may have guessed this), and to prevent this from happening to sebum your body sends a ready supply of them.

If we ate a whole food diet high in fresh, raw and alkalinizing plant foods, we would have the anti-oxidants needed to protect our bodies from oxidative damage caused by circulating toxins.

Free radicals are unpaired molecules in the body that can be at the root of oxidative cell damage, and antioxidants have been well studied in their power to prevent cell and DNA damage from free radicals (6).

When soft tissues such as the arterioles are damaged due to oxidative stress the body responds with an inflammatory process.

Polyphenols found in apple cider vinegar also equip the body with antioxidant support to heal from oxidative stress and tissue damage while contributing to a healthy immune response (20).

Blueberries have been known to help slow down cognitive decline, and improve memory function by protecting the body from inflammation and combatting oxidative damage, and stress.

Despite its ordinary appearance, zucchini contains lots of nutrients and minerals that help our bodies detox naturally and reduce the oxidative stress we take on thanks to damage caused by free radicals.

Even though intense and exhaustive physical activity can contribute to oxidative damage, regular moderate exercise can increase your body's production of natural antioxidants, which help protect cells (29, 30).