Sentences with phrase «radical called superoxide»

These damage - preventing substances are particularly effective in neutralizing a particularly dangerous oxygen radical called superoxide anion radical, and they have also been shown to help prevent oxygen - based damage to fats.

Raspberries inhibited a major type of free radical called superoxide anion and increased levels of the master antioxidant glutathione.

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To counter this, nature uses an enzyme called superoxide dismutase to eliminate superoxide as a free radical.

Manganese is also a component of an essential enzyme called superoxide dismutase, which is found in the cells» mitochondria and plays the vital role of protecting the cells from damage induced by free radicals.

She explains that fructose is 100 % metabolized in your liver and undergoes something called the Maillard reaction, which leads «to the formation of superoxide free radicals... that can result in liver inflammation.»

Apparently, applying aloe vera gel to human skin generates an antioxidant protein called metallothionein, which both scavenges free radicals and prevents antioxidants like glutathione and superoxide dismutase from being suppressed.