Possible Interaction: Antioxidants and Garlic

“Conclusion: Our results show that ingestion of garlic leads to significantly lowered plasma and erythrocyte MDA levels and to increased activities of some antioxidant enzymes, which indicates that consumption of garlic decreases oxidation reactions.”

“These results indicate that antioxidants present in garlic extracts may regulate ROS concentrations during ischemia, favour pro-survival pathways, and attenuate mitochondrial dysfunction.”

“The studies point to the fact that garlic reduces cholesterol, inhibits platelet aggregation, reduces blood pressure, and increases antioxidant status.”

“Thus, garlic has been shown to inhibit enzymes involved in lipid synthesis, decrease platelet aggregation, prevent lipid peroxidation of oxidized erythrocytes and LDL, increase antioxidant status , and inhibit angiotension-converting enzyme.”

“OBJECTIVE Recent studies have found that garlic supplementation can improve antioxidant status , however, there is no definitive consensus on this context.”

“ Antioxidation may account for the anticancer potential of garlic.”

“These data suggest that garlic , used as a dietary supplementation, may be beneficial in increasing the antioxidant capacity of the body.”

“We conclude that garlic extract supplementation improves blood lipid profile, strengthens blood antioxidant potential, and causes significant reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressures.”

“Some components of garlic are known to possess antioxidant properties.”

“ AGE exerts antioxidant action by scavenging ROS, enhancing the cellular antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione peroxidase, and increasing glutathione in the cells.”

“It was also observed that both doses of AGE and SAC significantly increased endogenous antioxidants in HTH.”