Glutathione (GSH) is an antioxidant, preventing damage to important cellular components caused by reactive oxygen species such as free radicals and peroxides. They are good reducing agents and are effective in neutralizing the free radicals. Glutathione reduces disulfide bonds formed within cytoplasmic proteins to cysteines by serving as an electron donor. In the process, glutathione [...]
Ascorbic acid or “vitamin C” is a monosaccharide oxidation-reduction (redox) catalyst found in both animals and plants. As one of the enzymes needed to make ascorbic acid has been lost by mutation during primate evolution, humans must obtain it from the diet; it is therefore a vitamin. In addition to its direct antioxidant effects, ascorbic [...]
Selenium is a mineral, not an antioxidant nutrient like what many think. However, it is a component of antioxidant enzymes. Although it is toxic in large doses, selenium is an essential micronutrient for animals. In plants, it occurs as a bystander mineral, sometimes in toxic proportions. Selenium is a component of the unusual amino acids [...]
The most abundantly prevalent antioxidant in human blood is uric acid, Uric Acid provides about half of the total antioxidant capacity of human serum. Uric acid is an oxypurine produced from xanthine by the enzyme xanthine oxidase, and is a waste product of purine metabolism in primates, birds, and reptiles. Non-vegetarian sources of uric acid [...]
Antioxidants are generally molecules which are capable of stopping the oxidation of other molecules. Technical explanation of oxidation is removal of electron by an external agent, however in layman terms, oxidation is what oxygen do to other molecules. When wood burns, technically it is oxidized, oxidation is an important physical process. The Food that we [...]
