I-Alpha lipoic acid yi-antioxidant yendalo yonke. Kuba iyanyibilika emanzini kwaye iyanyibilika ngamafutha. Oku kuthetha ukuba inoluhlu olubanzi lwemisebenzi, ifikelela kuzo zonke iiseli zomzimba kunye nokukhusela amalungu kumonakalo omkhulu wamahhala. Njenge-antioxidant, i-α lipoic acid inokubonelela ngezi zibonelelo zilandelayo:

√Nceda ukunyibilikisa izinto ezinetyhefu ezifana ne-mercury kunye ne-arsenic esibindini ngokwandisa imveliso ye-glutathione.

√Khuthaza ukuvuselelwa kwamanye amachiza okulwa ne-antioxidant, ngakumbi iivithamini E, iivithamini C, iglutathione kunye neCoenzyme Q10.

√Idlala indima ebalulekileyo ekuguquleni iswekile ibe ngamandla.

√Inceda ekwandiseni inkumbulo yexesha elifutshane neyexesha elide.

√Uphononongo lufumanise ukuba ialpha lipoic acid ilungile kubantu abanesifo seswekile kwaye inceda ukulawula amanqanaba eswekile yegazi.

√Inezinto eziluncedo kwizigulana zikaGawulayo.

√Iluncedo kunyango lwe-arteriosclerosis.

√Nceda ekuvuseleleni isibindi (ingakumbi iintlobo ezinxulumene nokusela utywala).

√Inokuthintela isifo sentliziyo, umhlaza kunye norhatyazo.