Health & Fitness

Mushrooms have long graced cuisines and pharmacopoeias worldwide with their complex flavors and reputed health benefits. Among numerous medicinal fungi, Lentinan, a polysaccharide derived from the shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes), has risen to prominence. Revered for its potent bioactive properties, lentinan has garnered attention not only in traditional Eastern medicine but increasingly in global biomedical research circles for its therapeutic promise. This article delves into lentinan's anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects, expounding on its significant application value in modern medicine.

Winter is a season that brings shorter days, colder temperatures, and often a more sedentary lifestyle. During this time, prioritizing your health and wellness is essential to ensure you stay active, avoid illnesses, and maintain your overall well-being. This guide will delve into practical ways to take care of your body in the winter, focusing on maintaining optimal physical health.

Notopterygium extract (NRE) may be an effective alternative to weight-loss synthetic drugs to address obesity challenges. The double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial was conducted by Tunisian and Japanese researchers and the results were published in the journal Nutrition. A total of 68 overweight and obese women were recruited into the trial, and participants were asked to take either a placebo or a concave leaf white spurge extract (2,000 mg/day) for 12 consecutive weeks.

A systematic review published in the international journal Phytotherapy Research shows that plant extracts such as soybeans and red clover (also known as red clover) may be effective in treating menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes in women.

Nature has always been, and still is, a source of foods and ingredients that are beneficial to human health. Nowadays, plant extracts are increasingly becoming important additives in the food industry due to their content in bioactive compounds such as polyphenols and carotenoids, which have antimicrobial and antioxidant activity, especially against low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) oxidative changes.

March 19th. A study published in Nature Metabolism, a sub-publication of Nature, has found that trigonelline, a wonder substance from coffee beans, may hold new promise for anti-aging. Trigonelline, a precursor compound of NAD+, helps slow down the aging process, strengthens muscles, and has the potential to treat sarcopenia.

A newly published study in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition shows that turmeric extract may be effective in reducing inflammation and improving glucose metabolism in overweight people, and that daily intake of CLE may reduce chronic low-grade inflammation, thereby reducing the risk of insulin resistance and controlling postprandial hyperglycemia.

Green vegetables have high nutritional value, but few people know that the nutritional value of purple vegetables is also very high. According to the U.S. science magazine "Huffington Post" reported, "this purple vegetable can be called 'life-saving vegetables': play a protective role on the heart, lower blood pressure, enhance bone strength, reduce inflammation in the human body......" It is also because of the high nutritional value of purple vegetables, the article also ends with a strong recommendation that U.S. nationals should eat at least 3 to 5 ounces of purple vegetables per day, or 85 to 142 grams. And this purple vegetables than we usually eat the most is the eggplant and so on the nutritional value is much higher, is a kind of young and old, pregnant women can also eat the efficacy of only.