Green Tea Lowers Triglycerides, Lipid Peroxides and Fibrinogen part II
Lipid peroxides
Lipid peroxides (fatty acid free radicals) are result of oxidation of lipids – the process most often affects the polyunsaturated fatty acids. The oxidation process is free radical chain reaction mechanism that causes body cells damages.
When a free radical reacts it always produces another free radical (a chain reaction mechanism). In order to stop such damaging oxidative process, two free radicals must react and produce a non-radical, but that could happen only if the free radicals concentration is high enough.
As you may guess it is not effective enough just to sit and wait for two free radicals to react by accident and stop the process. But there is another solution…
Antioxidants fight against lipid peroxides
That is why your organism has different methods for protecting your body cells – and that’s the antioxidant enzymes that catch free radicals. One of most popular antioxidants is vitamin E, but EGCG polyphenol (contained in Green tea) is even times more powerful antioxidant than Vitamin E.