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M., Daihan S

DOI: 10.1530/ERC-15-0030 72

Hydrogen peroxide has a longer half-life than superoxide, and unlike superoxide, hydrogen peroxide can transfer across lipid membranes by either diffusion or transport through channels, such as aquaporins (38)

However, a balanced diet consisting of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and fish, with a limited intake of saturated fat, salt, and fructose, has been found to have beneficial effects on the disease [82,83]

In fact, it had been documented more than ten years earlier that when ascorbic acid and glutathione are together in the presence of the hexoxidase [ascorbate oxidase] described by Szent-Gyorgyi the glutathione wholly protects the vitamin from oxidation, whilst it is itself oxidized at a rate which, with the same concentration of enzyme, is exactly the same as the rate with which ascorbic acid is oxidized when alone. (Hopkins and Morgan 1938)

The convergence of ferroptosis and syn pathology underlines the multifaceted role of dysregulated iron metabolism in exacerbating neurodegeneration in PD