Manganese is found in many essential enzymes, which are biological important compounds.
Enzymes containing manganese also protect the body from harmful oxygen radicals, highly reactive oxygen-containing molecules that can damage living cell tissues. Two of these protective enzymes are superoxide dismutase and pseudocatalse.
Manganese is fundamentally important in cartilage tissue formation and remodeling, in particular for chondroitin sulfate.
Enzymes containing manganese also protect the body from harmful oxygen radicals, highly reactive oxygen-containing molecules that can damage living cell tissues. Two of these protective enzymes are superoxide dismutase and pseudocatalse.
Manganese is fundamentally important in cartilage tissue formation and remodeling, in particular for chondroitin sulfate.
Antibody response and the activity of macrophages, granulocytes, and phagocytes - cells at protect the body from bacteria and other foreign invaders are all stimulated by manganese.
Manganese is also involved with aspects of carbohydrate metabolism because it is cofactor for pyruvate carboxylase as well as an activator for the gluconeogenic enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase.
Other than that manganese plays a role in the formation of prothrombin.
Manganese also involves the proper functioning of the nerves. According to the study involving young human patients, insufficient manganese may also exacerbate a tendency to have epileptic seizures.
Manganese, deficiency results in skeletal abnormalities. In contrast, manganese toxicity induces neurological disturbances that resemble Parkinson’s disease and the successful treatment of this disease with levodopa is associated with changes in manganese metabolism.
The means dietary intake of manganese by adults in the UK is 4.5 mg/day. About half of this is believed to be from tea. Daily intakes in the US were reported to be somewhat over, averaging 2.85 and 2.21 mg for 25-30 year old men and women.
The importance of manganese
