Numerous experiments have shown that the average life of human diploid cellular cultures subjected to stress and toxic substances is increased by the addition of anti-oxidising substances in the growth terrain this way suggesting to dermatologists to integrate products used daily for treating seborrhoeic dermatitis with an anti-oxidising ingredient.
Super-oxide free radicals however represent irreplaceable travelling companions in the life of any cell because they release themselves in all oxide-reductive reactions that are the basis of cell life itself.
It would therefore be inevitable for cells to be seriously damaged in their own structures if the enzymatic mechanisms that protect them were to be lost. These mechanisms neutralise the super-oxide free radicals changing them into harmless molecules and, in this way, protecting the cells.
This protection takes place in healthy skin through a physiologic process that tends to keep the level of enzymes and the anti-oxidising activity of the cells unchanged.
In skin suffering from psoriasis, however, due to the fact that anti-oxidising, protecting enzymatic mechanisms have been changed, this process must be carried out by using molecules with a high anti-oxidising, irritation free power, capable of neutralising the super-oxide free radicals. These molecules are FLAVONOIDS, some of the most powers agents that protect cells from lipidic peroxidation. If administered regularly, these are able to interact very quickly both with super-oxides and with hydro-silic radicals; they activate all the vital processes, protect the cellular membranes, increase the skin’s resistance against harmful external agents, intervene in cellular exchange fostering the absorption of nourishing substances. They delay the cellular ageing process, do not interfere with cytotoxic effects even in rather high concentrations and speed up the physiologic turn-over of keratinocites.