Let's take a look at several common health IQ taxes!
1, detoxification
Many people's superstitious "detoxification" is actually the normal metabolites of the human body, such as uric acid, carbon dioxide, lactic acid, cholesterol and so on. But it is not a real body "toxin" and there is no so-called "detoxification".
The so-called detoxification is just an unwarranted "selling point" excavated by merchants in order to promote their products. They put some theories of Chinese and western medicine together and create panic through fiction and exaggeration. People who don't understand seem to have principles, so they are willing to pay, and unscrupulous businesses earn a full load.
In fact, human metabolic waste will be squeezed out of the body through exudation, sweating, breathing and coughing. It will not endanger health, and there is no need to deliberately "detoxify".
2. Bird's Nest
China people regard bird's nest as the top tonic with a long history. For a long time, "precious" and "nourishing" were their distinctive labels. The key point is that the so-called "advanced tonic" is far from the actual nutritional value, which is also the fundamental reason why bird's nest has been repeatedly questioned and dubbed "IQ tax".
From the perspective of modern science, the main nutritional components of bird's nest are protein, amino acids and sialic acid (also called bird's nest acid). Sialic acid is the main bioactive component of bird's nest. Many people spit out bird's nest as the reason for IQ tax, mainly because there is nothing particularly remarkable about bird's nest, because even sialic acid that sounds a little powerful can be synthesized by the human body.
If you really want to make up for it, I suggest you buy sialic acid directly from Taobao, 5000 yuan per kilogram, and take it with warm water. The nourishing fee is 5 yuan a gram and three cans of rock sugar bird's nest.
3. Ejiao
The so-called donkey-hide gelatin is essentially collagen condensate boiled from animal skin. The real donkey-hide gelatin has a strong smell, a strong medicinal taste and is not delicious. Now the role of Ejiao has been greatly exaggerated. Ejiao is made of donkey skin. There is no essential difference between donkey skin and that of other mammals. Its main component is collagen. Eating collagen, like eating other protein, will be digested into amino acids before being absorbed by the human body, and there is nothing particularly mysterious.
4, black wolfberry
Black Lycium barbarum has only suddenly caught fire in recent years, and many people have never heard of it before. Lycium barbarum L., also known as Lycium barbarum L. and Lycium barbarum L., is the fruit of spiny shrub of Lycium genus in Solanaceae. This kind of medlar is basically similar to the medlar we usually see. It is a small berry, but the common wolfberry is red when it matures, while the black wolfberry is purple-black.
Due to the low output and large demand of Lycium barbarum, the price of Lycium barbarum was once fired to several thousand yuan per kilogram because of the merchants' propaganda that Lycium barbarum can fight cancer and delay aging. Black wolfberry is also called "soft gold". But in fact, the study found that the difference between black Lycium barbarum and ordinary red Lycium barbarum lies in anthocyanins.
Anthocyanin is really good for human body, but some vegetables and fruits that we often see in our life are rich in anthocyanin, such as purple potato, grape, blood orange, red cabbage, blueberry, eggplant, cherry, raspberry, strawberry, mulberry and so on, and the prices of these foods are much cheaper than those of black wolfberry.
5, anti-sugar pills
Expensive anti-sugar products can be seen everywhere on the Internet, claiming to effectively remove age, restore skin elasticity and luster, and fight against skin aging. However, most anti-sugar products have not been systematically and professionally verified, and there is no scientific basis for whether they can resist sugar.
In fact, the human body can automatically eliminate glycated products, just as people turn white after tanning, and the human body is constantly renewing and self-repairing. The harm of "anti-sugar" products is not to cheat money, not to harm people to eat excess carbohydrates, but to "give" young people the courage to eat more sugar and older food.
At present, the principle of action claimed by mainstream anti-sugar pills and anti-sugar oral liquid products on the market mainly lies in two points: first, inhibiting or eliminating AGEs；; The second is to promote collagen production. However, CCTV news pointed out in the report that these anti-sugar products are feasible in theory, but most of them have not been systematically and professionally verified, and there is no scientific basis for whether they can resist sugar.
Health care should not be blindly followed, but should pay attention to science! According to the recommendation of the World Health Organization, a balanced diet, adequate sleep, proper exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, and a happy mood are the healthy roads.