Top 3 health benefits of fucoidan
As early as a few centuries ago, the use of brown algae as food and medicine has been widely recorded in Asian culture. Especially in ancient China, algae has a history of more than 2,000 years. As early as the "Shennong Materia Medica" by Tao Hongjing (452-536 AD), the records of algae recorded the pharmacological effect of softening and shrinking the tissue of human lumps.
In 1913, Swedish scientist Johan Harald Kylin discovered the special substances in brown algae, -polysaccharides polymer with high biological activity, and named it FUCOIDAN. With the development of modern science and the advancement of modern extract technology, the role of scientists has continued to explore more in -depth. They were surprised to find that, as the core ingredients in seaweed, FUCOIDAN (brown algae polysaccharide sulfate) has high biological activity and has great benefits to human health!
What's brown algae?
Brown algae, (class Phaeophyceae), class of about 1,500 species of algae in the division Chromophyta, common in cold waters along continental coasts. Species colour varies from dark brown to olive green, depending upon the proportion of brown pigment (fucoxanthin) to green pigment (chlorophyll). Brown algae vary in form and size from small filamentous epiphytes (Ectocarpus) to complex giant kelps that range in size from 1 to more than 100 metres (3.3 to 330 feet; Laminaria, Macrocystis, Nerocystis). Other brown algae can be found attached to rocky coasts in temperate zones (Fucus, Ascophyllum) or floating freely (Sargassum).
What's fucoidan?
Fucoidan is a long chain sulfated polysaccharide found in various species of brown algae. Commercially available fucoidan is commonly extracted from the seaweed species Fucus vesiculosus, Cladosiphon okamuranus, Laminaria japonica and Undaria pinnatifida. Fucoidans are sulfated polysaccharides derived primarily from brown algae. The main sugar found in the polymer backbone is fucose, hence the name fucoidan. Other sugars are often present alongside fucose, including galactose, xylose, arabinose and rhamnose.
Fucoidan occurs in the cell walls of the seaweed plant and serves to protect it from external stresses. The same protective benefits that are of value to the seaweed plant have also found to be of potential benefit for both human and animal health. Fucoidan can be utilised as a stand-alone ingredient or readily incorporated with other ingredients. Delivery formats vary from capsules and tablets to creams, gels, liquids and serums.
Fucoidan benefits:
After nearly 30 years of research and exploration, FUCOIDAN was found three prominent benefits and effects:
★ Unique anti-tumor
FUCOIDAN's unique ways to fight tumors have been affirmed by a large number of authoritative institutions. Scientists believe that the ways of Fucoidan's anti -vitality and malignant tumors are mainly in the following three methods:
(1) inducing the physiological apoptosis of cancer cells, and effectively promote to reduce the number of cancer cells in the physiological apoptosis of the body. It is called APOPTOSIS, indicating that cells are naturally withered like autumn leaves.
Cell physiological apoptosis is a mechanism for the human body to actively regulate damaged cell death. In the human body, 50 billion to 70 billion cells are born every day. At the same time, the corresponding amount of mutations or damaged cells is needed, and the two are in dynamic balance.
Under normal circumstances, the human body automatically identifies and activate the apoptotic genes of those bad cells and guide them to automatically apoptosis. The death of cells is inherited in hereditary. At present, the medical community generally believes that most cancer is caused by problems with physiological apoptosis mechanisms, which leads to sudden gathering cells and eventually leading to tumors. FUCOIDAN helps identify cancerous and lesions, and forced cancer cells and lesion cells to naturally apoptosis through multiple biological paths, thereby effectively balance the physiological apoptosis mechanism.
(2) Inhibit the hyperplasia of the tumor, cut off the nutritional supply and metastases of the tumor. Whether there is blood vessels around it is an important symbol of judging tumor and evil. Around the tumor-Once there is vascular hyperplasia, it will be defined as a malignant tumor. The growth and metastasis of tumors depend on vascular newborn. If there is no newborn capillary, the tumor tissue will maintain a dormant state or degenerate.
Once a newborn blood vessels are connected to it, the tumor has a nutritional source, and it quickly grows or even transferred to other organs, causing tumor metastasis and leading to death. "The growth of tumors must rely on the vascular hyperplasia around it"
FUCOIDAN can be said to be the gospel of tumor patients, which can effectively remove vascular hyperplasia, effectively inhibit vascular hyperplasia and promote cancer tumor vascular decomposition.
For the characteristics of tumor blood vessels, it has the following 5 advantages:
(a) Effective for most tumors
(b) It is not easy to produce drug resistance
(c) High validity
(d) Low side effects
(e) Inhibit transfer and recurrence.
(3) Reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and reduce supply. After cancer treatment, people's physical condition often decreases sharply. This is mainly because drugs or rays have caused a large number of normal cell injuries, and the human body cannot remove lesion cells normally, so many side effects follow. FUCOIDAN can activate macrophages and killer cells, quickly remove cancer cells and lesions, thereby effectively reducing side effects and reducing complications.
★ Active anti -bacterial and antiviral effects
fucoidan are marine sulfurized mixed polysaccharide, which has the advantages of low toxicity and high efficiency. It has a wide range of virus inhibitory effects on influenza virus, human papilloma, HIV, and herpes zosperthyll virus. In particular, changes in the three -dimensional conformity determine the degree of activity of antiviral.
★ Excellent improvement of immunity.
At present, the research on the various health efficacy of FUCOIDAN has published more than 5,000 papers in international medical journals, confirming that FUCOIDAN have a variety of biomedical functions, such as improving immunity, antiviral, improving gastrointestinal tract, removing the picnic doors Solmidus, especially in improving immunity and remarkable effects of activating immune cells.
Research on FUCOIDAN on improving immunity has made great progress and has become a hot spot in research. FUCOIDAN benefit of improvement of immunity has been widely used in supplement food and health products. With health advantages, it has won the recognition of the public. The market prospects are very broad.