Royal Jelly, also known as Royal Jelly, Bee's Milk, and Queen Bee's Milk.
Royal jelly is high in protein and contains vitamin B and acetylcholine.
It is the secretion of the pharyngeal glands of young worker bees that cultivate larvae in the hive of honey bees.
It is thick and nutritious, and it is used by the bees to feed the larvae of the queen bee, so it is called ‘royal jelly’.
For a long time, royal jelly has been highly sought after, what nutritional value does it have?
What are the effects on the human body? Let's take a look at a few of the amazing effects of royal jelly.
1. Enhancement of immune function
The reason why royal jelly can enhance the immune function is that royal jelly contains effective components that enhance the immune effect, mainly:
Royal jelly acid: royal jelly contains about 1.8% royal jelly acid, which is an unsaturated fatty acid only found in royal jelly,
not only has anti-tumour and anti-radiation effect.It also has an immune-enhancing effect.
According to the research of Wang Tongyan of Department of Science of Beijing Medical University,
intraperitoneal injection of royal jelly acid has inhibitory effect on solid tumour and Ehrlich's ascites carcinoma in mice
and can restore the low immune function due to tumour;
at the same time, it is also observed that royal jelly acid can regulate immune response involved in T-lymphocytes.
Taurine: Royal jelly is rich in taurine.
In recent years, nutritionists have found that taurine promotes the proliferation of T-lymphocytes and the production of interleukin-1 by macrophages,
enhances the phagocytosis and bactericidal activity of neutrophils, and produces antibodies against viruses.
For infants and young children body immune cell defence function plays an important role,
taurine can also improve the body specific and non-specific immune function without causing significant changes in normal physiological functions.
Nucleic acid: royal jelly is rich in nucleic acid.
In recent years, it has been found that ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid can stimulate the proliferation and secretion speed of T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes,
so as to improve the immunity of the body. Human and animal experiments have confirmed that nucleic acids have irreplaceable effects on the maintenance of normal immune function and the growth and metabolism of the immune system,
such as increasing the strength of the hypersensitivity reaction, enhancing the resistance to Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans, enhancing the growth and development of immune cells, enhancing the phagocytosis of macrophages,
increasing the number of superoxide, stimulating bone marrow cells to proliferate, increasing the number of blood leukocytes, and relieving malnutrition and starvation-induced immune disorders.
It can relieve the immunosuppression induced by malnutrition and starvation, and increase the production of antibodies.
2. lower blood pressure, blood fat
Royal jelly can prevent arteriosclerosis and is an effective drug for the treatment of arteriosclerosis in humans.
In addition to improving human fat metabolism, it can also lower blood pressure, improve heart function, etc.,
and enhance the physical fitness of patients with atherosclerosis.
It has been reported that royal jelly can reduce blood glucose in normal animals as well as hyperglycemia and metabolic hyperglycemia in tetroxine diabetes mellitus,
and that it has a preventive and curative effect on experimental atherosclerosis and hyperlipidaemia.
It is generally believed that royal jelly contains a large number of plant sterols,
which can reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the stomach and intestines,
and plant sterols can remove cholesterol from the intestinal mucosa and prevent cholesterol accumulation in the arterial vasculature,
thus reducing circulatory system cholesterol and other lipids.
The gonadotropins and oestrogens contained in royal jelly also reduce the build-up of cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins in the serum and prevent cholesterol synthesis.
In addition, the unsaturated fatty acids in royal jelly,
such as arachidonic acid, can reduce the total amount of fat in the blood vessels and reduce the accumulation of fat deposits,
thus playing an anti-thrombotic and lipid-lowering role.
Acetylcholine contained in royal jelly can cause vasodilation, thus lowering blood pressure.
3. royal jelly can delay aging
Clinical trials have proved that regular use of royal jelly not only has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on geriatrics,
but also can change some of the phenomenon of aging, so that the elderly spirit of renewed, light-footed,
with the role of the return of the old to the child.
Royal jelly has the ability to maintain the cell's more vigorous DNA synthesis, shorten the cycle of old cells, reduce the aggregation of senescent cells,
maintain a faster cell renewal rate and delay the role of cellular aging. Studies have shown that the life span of fruit flies cultured with royal jelly can be extended by 20 per cent.
Consistent use of royal jelly has been reported to improve the health of the elderly and to have a significant effect on the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Yourui Peng and Fangxu Zhong showed that royal jelly can significantly increase the content of monoamine neurotransmitters in rat brain.
The mechanism of learning memory is closely related to the content of monoamine neurotransmitters, and norepinephrine and dopamine play an important role in memory retention.
4. Royal jelly and beauty
Evidence shows that royal jelly can also increase the body's energy, reduce anxiety, improve sleep and mood, enhance memory and improve immunity.
Vitamin B contained in royal jelly, which is high in vitamin B5 and biotin B6, these B vitamins are not only essential for human nutrition,
but also help the organism to resist foreign infections. The gel amino acid contained in royal jelly is an important constituent raw material of collagen,
collagen has an anti-aging effect, can keep the skin smooth, make the skin elastic, through local use, such as masks, creams, lotions, etc.,
can give the skin softness, wrinkles fade away.
5. Hepatoprotective effects of royal jelly
Researchers from Brazil evaluated the effects of royal jelly ingestion on corticosterone, blood glucose, plasma enzyme levels, and hepatic antioxidant systems in chronically stressed rats.
The results showed that royal jelly reduced corticosterone levels and improved blood glucose and other indices after stress induction, as well as increasing total hepatic antioxidant capacity, suggesting that royal jelly has physiological regulatory and hepatoprotective potential.
Meanwhile, Japanese scholars found that the substance could promote apoptosis in human lung tumour A549 cells by accumulating intracellular ROS and inducing the expression of the pathway ROS-ERK-P38.
Another study investigated the possible protective mechanism of royal jelly against hepatotoxicity caused by cadmium chloride (CdCl2), and found that royal jelly prevented liver injury, oxidative stress and inflammation by up-regulating the expression of Nrf2 and anti-apoptotic protein Bcl1-2.
Therefore, royal jelly can be used as a hepatoprotective agent against cdcl2:toxicity.
After reading the whole article, we believe that we have an understanding of the many effects of royal jelly, in a fast-paced society,
we must learn to take care of their own bodies, so today, have you drank royal jelly?
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References of this paper
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2、《Royal jelly efficacy know a lot》Zhou Mi
3, ‘The main efficacy of royal jelly and its application in medicine’ Zhang Juan