Free Radicals and Dietary Antioxidants : A Potential Review

As oxidative stress appears to be associated with several diseases, the use of antioxidants is intensively preferred, particularly for the treatments of various diseases like stroke, cancer, coronary heart disease and altitude sickness and neurodegenerative diseases. A dietary supplement or nutritional supplement is a required to supplement the diet for providing the nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, or amino acids, fiber etc that may be absent or may not be consumed in sufficient quantities in a person's diet. This article explores the knowledge about the chemistry, structure, uses and brief pharmacological roles of dietary antioxidant in the management of free radicals associated diseases.