“…The anti‐inflammatory and antioxidant activities of curcumin have been well documented (Gómez‐Estaca, Balaguer, López‐Carballo, Gavara, & Hernández‐Muñoz, ; Mary, Vijayakumar, & Shankar, ; Rauf, Imran, Orhan, & Bawazeer, ; Zhang et al, ); however, studies with nanocapsules containing curcumin showed that its potentiation promotes decreases in oxygen reactive species, DNA damage, and lipid peroxidation (Keskin‐Aktan et al, ; Soltani, Ghaemi, Sadeghizadeh, & Najafi, ), effects that are already known regarding the expression of Nrf2, an antioxidant regulator (Tapia et al, ) that influences in positive expression of target genes of antioxidant enzymes, including glutathione S‐transferase (GST), GPx, CAT, and SOD (Cardozo et al, ). All three of these are potent endogenous antioxidants.…”