Singapore, Nov. 20 -- New Zealand's researchers discovered that healthy male participants who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targets the powerhouse of the cells, mitochondria, sees attenuation in exercise induced mitochondria DNA (mtDNA) damage in lymphocytes and muscle.

Mitochondria has been shown to have numerous roles in a cell from contributing cellular networks for biosynthetic pathways, to stem cell function, mitophagy, proteolysis and apoptotic cell death. Mitochondrial dysfunction and disease, while complex is linked to each other. Production of mitochondrial reactive species occurs during and after exercise in humans. Studies have shown that this can increase mtDNA damage. Understanding this form of mtDNA damage can ...