Thyroid / impaired antioxidative factor balance

I know that you cant beat fresh, ripe fruit and veg, but
what sort of supplements do people recommend to increase
antioxidant intake? Im taking "phytaloe" which is basically
an extract from lots of different fruit...anybody know if
it? Any ideas of its efficacy? Any other suggestions?

Vish [email hidden]

"doe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:20040406123049.27471.00000786@mb-
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Clin Chem Lab Med. 2004 Feb;42(2):154-8. Links

Antioxidants in patients with hyperthyroidism.

Mayer L, Romic Z, Skreb F, Bacic-Vrca V, Cepelak I, Zanic-
Grubisic T,

Kirin M.

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Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dubrava University
Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia. [email hidden]

Hyperthyroidism is a hypermetabolic state accompanied by
increased oxygen utilization, increased production of
reactive oxygen species and consequentially measurable
changes in antioxidative factors. Therefore,

the

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activities of whole blood glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and
erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (SOD), total antioxidant
status (TAS) in serum and erythrocytes, and serum urate
and transferrrin concentrations were

determined

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in 70 women: 14 with newly diagnosed Graves' disease
(group A); 28 with hyperthyroidism on therapy with
methimazole (group B, divided into two subgroups, B1 and
B2) and 28 healthy women (group C). In comparison with
control group C, GPx activity was significantly decreased
in all patient

groups

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(p < 0.05), whereas SOD activity was significantly
decreased in group A (p

<

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.01) and significantly increased in group B (p < 0.01). In
comparison

with the

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control group, serum TAS activity was significantly
decreased in group A,

and

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erythrocyte TAS activity in all patient groups. Study
results suggest that

the

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impaired antioxidative factor balance leads to the
development and

presence of

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oxidative stress in women with hyperthyroidism. The
severity of these alterations, considered contradictory by
some authors, appears to depend

on the

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use of therapy.

PMID: 15061353 [PubMed - in process]

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