What does yeast glucan do?
What does yeast glucan do?
Yeast glucan, also known as yeast β-glucan or dextran, is a functional polysaccharide present in yeast cell walls. It is mainly composed of D-glucose pyranose connected by α, 1→6 bonds, and the branching points are connected by 1→2, 1→3, and 1→4, and the β-glucan bound by β-1,3/-1,6 has the highest biological activity. It forms a tight mesh structure in the yeast cell wall, which plays an important role in maintaining the structural integrity of yeast cells and maintaining cell shape. It can activate macrophages, neutrophils, etc., increase the content of leukocytes, cytokines and special antibodies, and fully stimulate the body's immune system.
It has significant biological activities, including enhancing immunity, improving blood lipids, removing toxins, resisting radiation, repairing cells, improving intestinal function, etc.
What are the effects?
Improve immunity
Yeast glucan can stimulate and enhance the phagocytic activity of immune cells, such as immune cells and macrophages, stimulate the release of interleukins to enhance the body's ability to defend against harmful substances, and can effectively improve human immunity.
Anti-radiation
The anti-radiation effect of glucan is the result of promoting hematopoietic function. Yeast glucan can enhance the production activity of blood cells, including the production of granulocytes, mononuclear leukocytes and red blood cells, leading to better recovery from lethal doses of radiation.
Regulating blood lipids
Studies have found that it can significantly reduce the level of triglycerides in the human body, reduce the level of LDL (low-density lipoprotein), and increase the level of HDL (high-density lipoprotein), effectively preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis.
Promote wound healing
Yeast β-1, 3-D-glucan participates in the body's natural defense and accelerates the healing process of skin wounds. Cell culture experiments show that carboxymethyl glucan resists the loss of antioxidant molecules in skin cells and promotes keratinocytes and proliferation. At the same time, β-1, 3-D-glucan can be used as a permeation inhibitor to eliminate the toxicity of metal ions such as Cs+, Cd+, and Co+.
Enhance immune function
It can stimulate and enhance the activity of immune cells, such as NK cells, macrophages, etc., thereby improving the body's immunity. This enhancement helps the body resist the invasion of viruses, bacteria and other pathogens.
It can stimulate immune cells to release cytokines such as interleukins, enhance their phagocytic activity, and thus more effectively remove harmful substances and pathogens from the body.
Remove toxins
It has a strong ability to remove toxins. It can help the body eliminate harmful substances in the body, such as heavy metals, chemicals, etc., thereby protecting the body from toxins.
Repair cells and resist radiation
It can promote the repair and regeneration of damaged cells and help the body recover from various injuries.
Studies have shown that it can enhance the production activity of blood cells, including the production of granulocytes and monocytes, thereby providing protection when damaged by radiation. Research by the US Air Force Biological Research Center showed that a higher proportion of animals that had taken yeast glucan orally beforehand were completely unaffected by the toxicity after being exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.
Regulate blood lipids
It has a significant regulating effect on blood lipids. It can significantly reduce the levels of triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in the human body, while increasing the level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), which helps prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis.
Lower cholesterol
It helps lower the cholesterol level in the blood and has a certain effect on preventing and treating diseases such as stone disease.
Improve intestinal function
It can promote the proliferation of beneficial bacteria in the intestine, improve the intestinal environment, and help digestion and excretion.
Regulate blood sugar
It can also improve the sensitivity of peripheral tissues to insulin, reduce the demand for insulin, and help stabilize blood sugar.
Effects on intestinal health
Adjust intestinal flora
Yeast beta-glucan can increase the water content in stool, enhance the volume and softness of stool, and help improve intestinal patency. It can promote intestinal peristalsis, prevent constipation problems, and support the normal functioning of the digestive system.
Improve the immune system
Immune health can be supported by regulating the intestinal immune system. It can stimulate immune cells in the intestine, enhance immune response, and reduce intestinal inflammation and allergic reactions by regulating immune balance.
Reduce the growth of harmful bacteria
It can inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria in the intestine, such as Escherichia coli. It can maintain the stability and health of the intestinal microecology by providing nutritional competitiveness, reducing the living environment of harmful bacteria, and reducing their number.
Reduce cholesterol content
It can reduce the triglyceride content in the blood and help prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In addition, it can also reduce the content of low-density lipoprotein in the body and increase the content of high-density lipoprotein.
Improve the body's resistance
It can improve the body's ability to resist infections such as viruses and bacteria. It can effectively adjust the microecology of the digestive tract in the body, promote the proliferation of beneficial bacteria in the body and the excretion of harmful substances in the intestine.
Improve blood sugar level
It can effectively improve the peripheral tissue's perception of insulin, reduce the demand for insulin, promote the return of glucose to normal, and have a significant inhibitory and preventive effect on diabetes.
Benefits for liver health
Reduce the content of malondialdehyde in the liver and increase the activity of glutathione peroxidase
Yeast β-glucan has a strong antioxidant effect. It can remove free radicals in the body, increase the activity of antioxidant enzymes, prevent the damage of peroxides and reactive oxygen to the body, and improve the body's antioxidant capacity.
Reduce cholesterol and prevent and treat stone disease
As a dietary fiber, it can form a gelatinous substance in the small intestine to surround bile acid. Bile acid cannot be absorbed back to the liver through the small intestine wall, but is excreted from the body through the digestive tract. Therefore, when bile acid is needed for digestion of food in the intestine, the liver can only absorb cholesterol in the blood to replenish the consumed bile acid, thereby reducing the cholesterol in the blood. β-glucan has the function of absorbing bile acid and promoting the excretion of bile acid, promoting the conversion of cholesterol to bile acid, maintaining the normal metabolism of cholesterol, effectively inhibiting the increase of cholesterol in serum, and preventing and treating stone disease in the body.
Improve liver function
It can effectively remove toxins from the body, while increasing the phagocytic ability of macrophages by more than 10 times, so that the optimal balance can be achieved quickly without any toxic side effects of any drugs, and effectively prevent the occurrence of various chronic diseases. β-glucan can quickly restore the ability of lymphocytes in injured bodies to produce cytokines (IL-1) to normal, and effectively regulate the body's immune function. A large number of experiments have shown that β-glucan can promote the production of IgM antibodies in the body to improve humoral immunity.
Protect liver cells
Yeast β-glucan can strengthen the activity of the respiratory immune system, thereby reducing the incidence of respiratory diseases, shortening the time of colds, and promoting recovery from colds. In fact, yeast β-glucan plays a role in preventing acute infections by pre-activating macrophage activity, and in chronic infections, it can be combined with antibiotics.
What fields are applied?
Food field
Yeast glucan can be used as a food additive for dairy products, meat products, baked goods, beverages and candies. It has the functions of thickening, moisturizing and improving taste.
Health food and medicine field
It can stimulate the activity of immune cells and enhance the body's defense ability. It is often used in health foods and medicines to enhance immunity.
It has the effect of promoting hematopoiesis, can enhance blood cell production, and help recover from radiation.
It can reduce triglyceride levels, reduce LDL (low-density lipoprotein) and increase HDL (high-density lipoprotein), which helps prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Cosmetics field
It has the function of anti-radiation and rapid wound repair. It is often used in cosmetics such as facial masks, shower gels, hand creams, etc., providing skin care effects such as whitening and moisturizing.
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