15 health benefits of kelp

Kelp is recognized as the most nutritious food, it is alkaline food, and the price is very cheap, more food is very beneficial to health, then what are the health benefits of seaweed?

1, Xiao Li water

In Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica," it was recorded that kelp "fights water-borne diseases and causes damage to algae." Modern research shows that kelp contains carotenoids, B vitamins, and essential nutrients such as calcium and iron; kelp contains a variety of pharmacological effects. Functional factors such as kelp starch (brown algae starch), alginic acid (alginic acid), laminarin, algine, fucoidan, laminin, and the like. With the deepening of scientific research, it was found that kelp has a wide range of pharmacological activities.

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2, prevention of iodine deficiency goiter

Iodine is a raw material for the synthesis of thyroxine, and iodine deficiency can cause thyroid tissue enlargement and enlargement. Kelp is rich in iodine, which helps prevent iodine-deprived goiter.

3, anti-tumor

The laminaria polysaccharides in kelp can kill tumor cells by activating macrophages, inhibit tumor cell proliferation, and also inhibit tumor growth by inhibiting tumor angiogenesis, and can also directly inhibit tumor growth.

4, anticoagulant

Fucoidan and fucoidan in kelp have anticoagulant effects.

5, step down

The antihypertensive effect of kelp may be related to the laminin and taurine it contains. Hypertensive patients can eat kelp.

6, lipid-lowering

In the intestine, kelp is able to carry the fat in the chyme out of the body, so it has a good lipid-lowering effect.

7, hypoglycemic

Fucoidan in kelp is a good dietary fiber. After eating kelp, it can delay gastric emptying and food passage through the small intestine, helping to control blood sugar.

8, improve immunity

Kelp polysaccharides are an immunomodulator. Studies have shown that Laminaria japonica promotes immune function in normal and immunocompromised mice.

9, anti-radiation

The active substances in kelp can prevent the absorption of various radioactive elements and harmful heavy metals, or generate insoluble compounds and excrete them.

10, hair care

Nutrition experts believe that regular consumption of seaweed not only supplements the body's iodine elements, but also has special effects on the growth, moisturization, and shine of hair. Kelp is extremely rich in iodine, it is the main raw material for the synthesis of thyroxine in the body, and the hair's luster is formed due to the role of thyroid hormone in the body.

11, eliminate breast hyperplasia

Modern studies have found that kelp can assist in the treatment of breast hyperplasia. This is because it contains a lot of iodine, can promote ovarian follicular luteinization, thereby reducing the level of estrogen in the body, so that endocrine disorders are adjusted, and ultimately eliminate the hidden dangers of breast hyperplasia, to prevent breast hyperplasia.

12, prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

Kelp contains a large amount of polyunsaturated fatty acid EPA, which can reduce the viscosity of the blood and reduce the hardening of the blood vessels. Therefore, eating kelp often can prevent cardiovascular diseases.

13, diuretic, swelling

Kelp is often attached to a layer of white cream-like mannitol, which is a valuable medicinal substance. Modern scientific research shows that mannitol has the effect of lowering blood pressure, diuresis, and swelling.

14, delay aging

Kelp is rich in calcium and iodine, which helps thyroid hormone synthesis. These two kinds of foods can not only be beauty but also have the effect of delaying aging.

15, improve immunity

Kelp can improve the body's humoral immunity, and promote the body's cellular immunity. There are many foods that regulate immunity. Shiitake is one of them.

Warm reminder: Although kelp has many health benefits, it also has food taboos. Patients with hyperthyroidism do not eat kelp, because the rich content of iodine in kelp, will increase the condition; pregnant women and nursing mothers do not eat more kelp. This is because the iodine in kelp can enter the fetus and infants with the blood circulation, causing thyroid dysfunction.

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