What Are The Functions Of Bacopa Monnieri Extract?
What Is Bacopa Monnieri Extract?
Bacopa monnieri extract is a substance extracted and processed from the whole herb of Bacopa monnieri, a plant of the genus Bacopa of the family Scrophulariaceae. It is rich in a variety of bioactive ingredients, such as triterpenoid saponin compounds, flavonoid compounds, organic acids, alkaloids, monoterpenoid compounds, terpenoid compounds, triterpenoid sterols, polysaccharides and vitamins. These ingredients give Bacopa monnieri extract a variety of pharmacological effects and functions. Bacopa monnieri, also known as purslane, hemp seed, duckweed, etc., is a common herb that is widely distributed throughout the world. The herbal part of Bacopa monnieri can be used for medicinal or edible purposes and is widely used in many traditional medicines.
What Are The Functions Of Bacopa Monnieri Extract?
Improves Memory and Cognitive Function
Certain components in Bacopa monnieri extract, such as bacoside, can cross the blood-brain barrier and regulate the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain, such as acetylcholine, dopamine, serotonin, and GABA, thereby improving memory and learning. It also stimulates antioxidant enzymes, supports synaptic regeneration, and repairs damaged neurons, further enhancing cognitive function.
Sedative and Anti-Anxiety
Bacopa monnieri extract has a sedative effect that can relieve anxiety, worry, and stress, which is closely related to its function of regulating neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin.
Anti-inflammatory and Antioxidant
Multiple compounds in the extract have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, which can reduce the release of inflammatory mediators, reduce inflammatory responses, and resist cellular oxidative stress.
Improves Cardiovascular Health
Flavonoids in Bacopa monnieri extract, such as apigenin, can reduce serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, improve cardiovascular function, and reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. The extract also has a hypotensive effect, lowering blood pressure by increasing the activity of the renin-angiotensin system and improving myocardial contractility.
Lowering blood sugar levels
The polysaccharide components in Bacopa monnieri extract have great potential for the treatment of diabetic hyperglycemia. Studies have shown that Bacopa monnieri can lower blood sugar levels, improve insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion, and reduce glycosylated hemoglobin levels.
Immunomodulation
The various natural ingredients in the extract can enhance the body's immune function, improve the body's resistance to external pathogenic microorganisms, and prevent the occurrence and spread of diseases.
Improving cardiovascular function
After entering the human body, flavonoids such as apigenin in Bacopa monnieri extract can lower serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, improve cardiovascular function, and reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
Promoting digestion
Bacopa monnieri extract is rich in flavonoids, which can promote gastrointestinal motility, increase gastrointestinal motility and secretion, and help digestion.
Beauty and skin care
Bacopa monnieri extract has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. It contains plant polysaccharides and vitamins, which nourish and lubricate the skin. It can also reduce dry dead skin inside the skin, remove excessive stratum corneum, and smooth fine lines on the skin surface and make the skin smooth. In addition, purslane extract also contains flavonoids and saponins, which have the effect of anti-oxidation and scavenging free radicals in the human body, and can delay skin aging.
Specific Benefits Of Bacopa Monnieri Extract For Skin
Nutrition and Lubrication: Bacopa monnieri extract contains plant polysaccharides and vitamins that can nourish the skin and make it more lubricated.
Reduce Dead Skin and Keratin: Helps reduce the formation of dead skin and excess stratum corneum caused by dry skin.
Relieve Itch: By constricting vascular smooth muscle and soothing the skin, it can relieve skin itching caused by dryness.
Antioxidant and Anti-Aging: The flavonoids and saponins in it can scavenge free radicals and resist oxidation, thereby delaying the aging process of the skin.
Antibacterial and Antifungal: Alkaloid components have the ability to resist bacteria and inhibit common pathogenic skin fungi.
Enhance Cognitive Function: Although this is not a direct benefit for the skin, studies have shown that Bacopa and its extracts have the effect of enhancing cognitive function, which may also have a positive impact on skin health indirectly.
Benefits of Bacopa Monnieri Extract On The Nervous System
1. Improve memory
Enhance memory formation: Bacopa monnieri extract can increase memory formation through the enzyme tryptophan hydroxylase and increase the expression of serotonin transporter, thereby facilitating the memory formation process. In healthy people aged 18 to 60, a dose of 300 mg per day can improve memory, verbal learning and delayed recall, and this effect is reflected in both young and elderly people. In addition, long-term use of Bacopa monnieri extract can improve chemical-induced dementia, and can also improve different types of memory abilities such as spatial memory, positive reinforcement memory and negative reinforcement memory.
Reduce memory forgetting: It helps to increase the memory of new information, and can reduce the rate of forgetting of new information, which helps to consolidate memory and prevent rapid memory decay.
2. Improve cognitive function
Regulate neurotransmitters to improve cognition: Long-term use of Bacopa extract can improve cognitive function by regulating different neurotransmitters, including activating neurotransmitters, regulating the synthesis of serotonin, activating 5-HT receptors, and activating the protein kinase CREB pathway. CREB is a factor in the phosphorylation of key transcription factors and the most critical regulator of memory consolidation, thereby improving overall cognitive ability and playing a certain role in the treatment of cognitive disorders such as dementia.
3. Protect nerve cells
Nourish nerve cells: Many research institutions have conducted a large number of studies on the effects of oral Bacopa extract. Studies have confirmed that long-term use of Bacopa can nourish nerve cells, provide nutritional support for nerve cells, and help maintain the normal function and structure of nerve cells.
Reduce damage to the brain: Bacopa can reduce the oxidative damage of aluminum and reduce the oxidative damage of mercury to brain tissue in the body. Generally speaking, it seems to always protect the brain from damage caused by excessive minerals.
What Fields Are Bacopa Monnieri Extract Used In?
Food and beverage fields
It can be used in the food field as a food additive, etc., to add special functions or flavors to food while ensuring food safety.
It can be added to beverages to enrich the ingredients and functions of beverages and meet consumers' demand for healthy drinks.
Health care field
Health care tablets or capsules: Bacopa monnieri extract can be used to make health care tablets or capsules and other products, providing certain health benefits for human health.
Cosmetic field
In cosmetics, Bacopa monnieri extract s can play a variety of functions, such as soothing the skin, relieving itching, etc., and can be used in functional skin care products such as anti-inflammatory, anti-irritation, anti-allergic, anti-acne and anti-dandruff.
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