Cargando…
Pomegranate for Your Cardiovascular Health
Pomegranate is a source of some very potent antioxidants (tannins, anthocyanins) which are considered to be also potent anti-atherogenic agents. The combination of the above unique various types of pomegranate polyphenols provides a much wider spectrum of action against several types of free radical...
Autores principales: | , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Rambam Health Care Campus
2013
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23908863 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10113 |
_version_ | 1782272909518045184 |
---|---|
author | Aviram, Michael Rosenblat, Mira |
author_facet | Aviram, Michael Rosenblat, Mira |
author_sort | Aviram, Michael |
collection | PubMed |
description | Pomegranate is a source of some very potent antioxidants (tannins, anthocyanins) which are considered to be also potent anti-atherogenic agents. The combination of the above unique various types of pomegranate polyphenols provides a much wider spectrum of action against several types of free radicals. Indeed, pomegranate is superior in comparison to other antioxidants in protecting low-density lipoprotein (LDL, “the bad cholesterol”) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL, “the good cholesterol”) from oxidation, and as a result it attenuates atherosclerosis development and its consequent cardiovascular events. Pomegranate antioxidants are not free, but are attached to the pomegranate sugars, and hence were shown to be beneficial even in diabetic patients. Furthermore, pomegranate antioxidants are unique in their ability to increase the activity of the HDL-associated paraoxonase 1 (PON1), which breaks down harmful oxidized lipids in lipoproteins, in macrophages, and in atherosclerotic plaques. Finally, unique pomegranate antioxidants beneficially decrease blood pressure. All the above beneficial characteristics make the pomegranate a uniquely healthy fruit. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-3678830 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2013 |
publisher | Rambam Health Care Campus |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-36788302013-08-01 Pomegranate for Your Cardiovascular Health Aviram, Michael Rosenblat, Mira Rambam Maimonides Med J Clinical Implications of Basic Research Pomegranate is a source of some very potent antioxidants (tannins, anthocyanins) which are considered to be also potent anti-atherogenic agents. The combination of the above unique various types of pomegranate polyphenols provides a much wider spectrum of action against several types of free radicals. Indeed, pomegranate is superior in comparison to other antioxidants in protecting low-density lipoprotein (LDL, “the bad cholesterol”) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL, “the good cholesterol”) from oxidation, and as a result it attenuates atherosclerosis development and its consequent cardiovascular events. Pomegranate antioxidants are not free, but are attached to the pomegranate sugars, and hence were shown to be beneficial even in diabetic patients. Furthermore, pomegranate antioxidants are unique in their ability to increase the activity of the HDL-associated paraoxonase 1 (PON1), which breaks down harmful oxidized lipids in lipoproteins, in macrophages, and in atherosclerotic plaques. Finally, unique pomegranate antioxidants beneficially decrease blood pressure. All the above beneficial characteristics make the pomegranate a uniquely healthy fruit. Rambam Health Care Campus 2013-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3678830/ /pubmed/23908863 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10113 Text en Copyright: © 2013 Aviram and Rosenblat. This is an open-access article. All its content, except where otherwise noted, is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Clinical Implications of Basic Research Aviram, Michael Rosenblat, Mira Pomegranate for Your Cardiovascular Health |
title | Pomegranate for Your Cardiovascular Health |
title_full | Pomegranate for Your Cardiovascular Health |
title_fullStr | Pomegranate for Your Cardiovascular Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Pomegranate for Your Cardiovascular Health |
title_short | Pomegranate for Your Cardiovascular Health |
title_sort | pomegranate for your cardiovascular health |
topic | Clinical Implications of Basic Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23908863 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10113 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT avirammichael pomegranateforyourcardiovascularhealth AT rosenblatmira pomegranateforyourcardiovascularhealth |