Sentences with phrase «reaction of free radical damage»

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Unchecked, these free radicals cause a chain reaction of injury to the cells and tissues and, on the skin, results in sun damage, pigmentation and premature ageing.

Aging - associated increases in oxidative damage to key enzymes results in their structural deformation and decreased binding affinity for the co-enzyme, causing a decrease in enzyme funtion.8 Ames» research has demonstrated that increasing the availability of acetyl L - carnitine and α - lipoic acid, two nutrients that serve as mitochondrial enzyme co-factors, restores the velocity of the reactions (KM) in the related enzymes, and thus restores aging mitochondria's ability to produce youthful levels of ATP.9 10 11 12 13 Part II focused on the inter-relationships among the folate, methylation and transsulfuration pathways, whose dysfunction results in increased free radical production coupled with disruption of glutathione (GSH) synthesis, thus accelerating mitochondrial decay and aging.

The process of oxidation releases free radicals, which can trigger chain reactions leading to the death or damage of cells.

However, a small minority of oxidized cells become problematic «free radicals» that set off a chain reaction of damage, causing cells to mutate and behave abnormally.

One of these substances is free radicals, which in turn produce a type of chain reaction causing cell damage.

The unsaturated lipid molecules of cell membranes are particularly susceptible to this damaging free radicals process and readily contribute to the uncontrolled chain reaction.

Oxidative damage, another name for the chemical reaction that free radicals cause, can lead to a breakdown or even hardening of lipids, which makeup all cell walls.

Surplus glucose relentlessly reacts with your body's proteins, causing damaging glycation reactions while fueling the fires of chronic inflammation and inciting the production of destructive free radicals (Basta 2004; Uribarri 2005; Toma 2009).

Found in many foods, antioxidants break and reduce the chain reaction of cell damage caused by free radicals.