by Pallavi Singh Chauhan, Sonia Johri
This
informative volume presents a valuable overview of the therapeutic
aspects as well as applications of antioxidants. It discusses the basic
mechanisms of therapy-based oxidative damage and categorization of
nutritional antioxidants and covers the sources of antioxidants as well
as their extraction and quantification. The volume considers the
controversies of the usefulness or disadvantages of antioxidant
supplementation in relation to adaptation and performance and also looks
at the effectiveness of bioactives and antioxidant-based therapies for
specific health issues, such as anemia, infectious diseases, urinary
tract infections, Parkinson’s diseases, and diabetes.
The
book discusses the sensing of oxidative stress and the effectiveness of
antioxidant treatment, followed by an introduction to several
biomarkers to estimate the bioefficacy of dietary/supplemental
antioxidants in various forms. Also considered are free radicals that
can cause “oxidative stress,” a process that can trigger cell damage,
and how antioxidant molecules have been shown to counteract oxidative
stress in laboratory experiments.
