The value is a starting point, not a diagnosis, and its meaning depends on the exposure history, the trend over time, the symptoms, and the other laboratory findings around it
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By supporting cellular resilience, it may help the body respond to the everyday physical demands of an active lifestyle
An overactive TCA cycle stresses the endoplasmic reticulum, thus inducing mitochondrial dysfunction and formation of reactive oxidative species and toxic lipid intermediates, like ceramides and diacylglycerol (22, 23)
Silybin and other related flavonolignans may act as ATs, although there is now evidence that they also act on the cellular membrane of hepatocytes, inhibiting the absorption of toxins (Ferenci, 2016)
PubChem Compound Summary for CID 67678, L-cystine, Pubchem