In that video, as Dr. Greger explains with signature clarity, the role of superoxide dismutase — our body's primary defense against mitochondrial damage — is to «defuse»
oxygen radicals inside the cellular mitochondria.
Not exact matches
In a new cell culture study, Sen found that sucralose appears to promote
oxygen radical accumulation — a highly reactive particles that can cause disease and inflammation
inside cells.
Sounds
radical, but the slicing gives cells on the
inside — some of which start dying — exposure to much - needed
oxygen and nutrients.
Superoxide dismutase (SOD) is found
inside the body's mitochondria (the
oxygen - based energy factories
inside most of our cells) where it provides protection against damage from the free
radicals produced during energy production.
The
oxygen that is released from the sulfate
radical is picked up by the myoglobin, sequestered
inside the molecule for safe travel to the mitochondria.