Abstract

Inflammation seems to be the major initiator of many processes that leads to self-healing as well as pathogenesis of major metabolic diseases, including, atherosclerosis, obesity, metabolic syndrome, type-2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease and stroke. Inflammation seems to play a role even in acute events such as vulnerable plaque rupture, precipitation of some of the events associated with stroke, advance events in cancer and neuronal pathology. In spite of the fact that researchers have attributed such an important role for inflammation, there are hardly any drugs that specifically work on this process. When it comes to anti-ageing, there are just two drugs in the market. Although numerous compounds have been introduced as antioxidants, no major success has been reported in any randomized clinical studies [1,2].