Therapeutic Potential of Natural Antioxidants

• Published in: Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity Vol. 2018; no. 1; p. 9471051
• Main Authors: Ramana, Kota V., Reddy, Aramati B. M., Majeti, N. V. Ravi Kumar, Singhal, Sharad S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Hindawi 01.01.2018; Hindawi Limited
• Subjects: Antioxidants; Antioxidants - pharmacology; Antioxidants - therapeutic use; Biological Products - pharmacology; Biological Products - therapeutic use; Bone cancer; Cancer therapies; Cardiomyopathies - metabolism; Cardiomyopathies - pathology; Cardiomyopathies - prevention & control; Diabetes; Disease prevention; Flavonoids; Free radicals; Heart attacks; Humans; Liver diseases; Lymphocytes; Oxidative stress; Oxidative Stress - drug effects; Pancreatitis; Plant Extracts - chemistry; Plants, Medicinal - chemistry; Plants, Medicinal - metabolism; Polyphenols; Studies; Vitamin E
• ISSN: 1942-0900; 1942-0994
• DOI: 10.1155/2018/9471051

Natural antioxidants are the plants- and other living organism-derived compounds with a strong potential to inhibit oxidative stress by controlling the formation of free radicals, scavenging the free radicals, interrupting the free radical-mediated chain reactions, and preventing the lipid peroxidation process. [...]natural antioxidants have potential to balance the irregulated oxidative stress and to restore the cellular homeostasis. [...]natural antioxidants can decrease the deleterious effects of various oxidative stress-induced pathological conditions. Nowadays, an increase in the awareness of a healthy lifestyle has resulted in everyday consumption of nutritionally rich antioxidant organic natural food products over synthetic and processed foods which could restore our body’s ability to fight against various kinds of stresses, infections, and related pathologies. [...]identification and development of novel antioxidants from nature could be beneficial in limiting the deleterious effects of oxidative stress in different pathological conditions. The current change in the healthy lifestyle advocates search for more natural antioxidants with strong therapeutic potential which can eventually replace with some synthetic drugs with unwanted side effects. [...]identification and development of natural antioxidants not only play an essential role in the prevention or therapy of human diseases but also interrupt any adversity that disrupts normal human health.