Gamma oryzanol can prevent cytokine storm in Covid patients: Experts

Gamma oryzanol can prevent cytokine storm in Covid patients: Experts
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New Delhi, March 14 : Using gamma oryzanol -- a powerful antioxidant -- in supplement form on Covid-19 patients with obesity can significantly prevent cytokine storm in them and thereby safeguard them from negative clinical outcomes, health experts said on Sunday.
The findings suggest that rice bran supplement containing natural compounds as gamma oryzanol can be considered a coadjutant therapy to prevent the cytokine storm in Covid-19 patients with obesity conditions.
"Gamma-oryzanol has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties and due to which it has the potential to be helpful in preventing negative clinical outcomes in such patients who have inflammatory tendencies," Neha Gupta, Infectious Diseases specialist, Medanta - The Medicity told IANS.

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