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Some people may use it for longer periods, such as 6 months to a year, but this should always be under the supervision of a healthcare provider
For those patients, where a compound comes from and who is supervising its use is more important than which compound it is
Further, ebselen follows the analogous catalytic steps as that of native GPx enzymes, and the activation energies for the ebselen-catalyzed and native enzyme-catalyzed GPx reactions are 55 kJ/mol and 36.5 kJ/mol, respectively [78]
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For example, vitamin C can react with metal ions released from exercise-induced tissue damage, giving rise to harmful hydroxyl radicals [55], and vitamin E can become a free radical itself when it reacts with a free radical [56], damaging lipid membranes if it is not converted back to its reduced form