Sentences with phrase «oxygen radicals through»

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Recent research has shown that particularly when passing through our digestive tract, sweet potato cyanidins and peonidins and other color - related phytonutrients may be able to lower the potential health risk posed by heavy metals and oxygen radicals.

Physiologist Dino Giussani and colleagues at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom theorized that hypoxia promotes harm in the womb primarily through stress caused when the low level of oxygen creates an overload of highly reactive molecules known as free radicals.

It is believed that the excitotoxic cascade ultimately leads to DNA damage, partly through excessive formation of oxygen radicals.

However, up to 2 % of electrons which are transferred through the respiratory chain lead to the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the form of superoxide anion (O 2 −), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and hydroxyl radical (OH.)

Ginkgo biloba protects brain cells from damage caused by free radicals while improving blood circulation and oxygen delivery through the microcapillaries.

They are formed naturally through normal metabolic processes; however more sources of free radicals include poor food choices, certain prescription medications, environmental pollution, tobacco smoking (including second - hand), stress, ultraviolet light, oxygen and radiation.

Research suggests that Vitamin C is a highly effective antioxidant and that small amounts can protect essential molecules in the body from free radical damage and reactive oxygen species generated during normal metabolism, as well as through exposure to toxins and pollutants.

Their power is measured through ORAC, or Oxygen Radical Absorbency Capacity.

A number of clinical studies have shown that Ginkgo biloba can protect brain cells from damage caused by free radicals while improving blood circulation and oxygen delivery, particularly through the microcapillaries.