Jorge Joven

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Fight against obesity: may we win the war? Is struggle necessary?

Physicians report successful stories in weight loss combined with a more extensive recount of obvious failures. The perceived situation is that lifestyle interventions are unlikely to be...

20 May 2015 6,661 9 View

Why do plants synthesize substances beneficial to human health?

Howitz and Sinclair state in a brilliant manner: “Our xenohormesis hypothesis proposes that animals and fungi (heterotrophs) have evolved the ability to sense signaling and stress-induced...

16 June 2014 718 7 View

Polyphenols scavenge free radicals in vitro: does it imply an antioxidant activity in humans?

Oxidation connects numerous and important human disorders. Therefore, it is tempting to simplify the action of polyphenols based on their intrinsic properties. Polyphenols are bioactive but not...

16 June 2014 3,410 22 View

Managing hypertension by polyphenols: anecdotes coalesce into data?

Epidemiological studies suggest that the Mediterranean diet is associated with beneficial health outcomes, which have been commonly attributed to different components of several foods. Polyphenols...

18 April 2014 8,572 0 View

Inflammation, autophagy disturbances and mitochondrial dysfunction: a combined physiologic response to energy imbalance?

Obesity is a critical public health problem as it is a risk factor for many human diseases, including diabetes, atherosclerosis and cancer. The cross-talk between mTOR, an ancient nutritional...

26 March 2014 7,987 1 View

Nothing in inflammation, oxidation and metabolism makes sense except in the light of AMPK/mTOR-driven growth-promoting pathways ?

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10 November 2012 9,637 5 View