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Rooibos, a supportive role to play during the COVID-19 pandemic?
This article presents the potential health benefits of Rooibos to be considered a support during the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent pandemic of COVID-19 has led to severe morbidity and mortality. The highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 is known to prime a cytokine storm in patients and progression to acute...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8367744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34422116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2021.104684 |
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author | Sheik Abdul, Naeem Marnewick, Jeanine L. |
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description | This article presents the potential health benefits of Rooibos to be considered a support during the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent pandemic of COVID-19 has led to severe morbidity and mortality. The highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 is known to prime a cytokine storm in patients and progression to acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome. Based on clinical features, the pathology of acute respiratory disorder induced by SARS-CoV-2 suggests that excessive inflammation, oxidative stress, and dysregulation of the renin angiotensin system are likely contributors to the COVID-19 disease. Rooibos, a well-known herbal tea, consumed for centuries, has displayed potent anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, redox modulating, anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, cardiometabolic support and organoprotective potential. This article describes how Rooibos can potentially play a supportive role by modulating the risk of some of the comorbidities associated with COVID-19 in order to promote general health during infections. |
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spelling | pubmed-83677442021-08-17 Rooibos, a supportive role to play during the COVID-19 pandemic? Sheik Abdul, Naeem Marnewick, Jeanine L. J Funct Foods Article This article presents the potential health benefits of Rooibos to be considered a support during the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent pandemic of COVID-19 has led to severe morbidity and mortality. The highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 is known to prime a cytokine storm in patients and progression to acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome. Based on clinical features, the pathology of acute respiratory disorder induced by SARS-CoV-2 suggests that excessive inflammation, oxidative stress, and dysregulation of the renin angiotensin system are likely contributors to the COVID-19 disease. Rooibos, a well-known herbal tea, consumed for centuries, has displayed potent anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, redox modulating, anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, cardiometabolic support and organoprotective potential. This article describes how Rooibos can potentially play a supportive role by modulating the risk of some of the comorbidities associated with COVID-19 in order to promote general health during infections. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-11 2021-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8367744/ /pubmed/34422116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2021.104684 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Sheik Abdul, Naeem Marnewick, Jeanine L. Rooibos, a supportive role to play during the COVID-19 pandemic? |
title | Rooibos, a supportive role to play during the COVID-19 pandemic? |
title_full | Rooibos, a supportive role to play during the COVID-19 pandemic? |
title_fullStr | Rooibos, a supportive role to play during the COVID-19 pandemic? |
title_full_unstemmed | Rooibos, a supportive role to play during the COVID-19 pandemic? |
title_short | Rooibos, a supportive role to play during the COVID-19 pandemic? |
title_sort | rooibos, a supportive role to play during the covid-19 pandemic? |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8367744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34422116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2021.104684 |
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