Natto is divided into wet natto and natto capsules made by modern technology. As far as modern technology is concerned, multi-strain fermentation has undoubtedly opened up a new field for natto fermentation.
1. Thrombolysis
1980 One day, Professor Nishimoto Hiroshi of Japan, who was engaged in thrombus research at Robbins Institute in Chicago, USA, compared more than 230 kinds of foods and found that only natto foods contained high concentration of thrombolytic components. He put the thrombolytic drugs that patients with cerebral thrombosis often take on quantitative artificial thrombus, which can be completely dissolved in one night, while it takes only three hours to replace a natto food in the same way.
Nattokinase can directly decompose thrombus, and the thrombolytic effect of wet natto per gram is equivalent to urokinase 1600IU. The action time of nattokinase on thrombus is as long as 8- 12 hours, while that of urokinase is only 30 minutes. Urokinase can only be injected, and nattokinase can be injected or taken orally, which plays a role in capillaries. Natto has been eaten in Japan for 1000 years, and it is a safe edible thrombus preventive agent.
Besides direct thrombolysis, nattokinase can also stimulate vascular endothelial cells to produce endogenous t-PA, activate urokinase in vivo, and degrade plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI? 1) regulates fibrinolysis to realize its own physiological thrombolysis.
Natto capsule can completely pass through gastric acid by adding nattokinase protective agent to ensure its effective absorption; Rich in vitamin K, it can achieve the purpose of safe thrombolysis.
2. Adjust blood lipid and blood pressure to prevent atherosclerosis.
Animal experiments show that natto food can inhibit LDL oxidation in blood, effectively reduce the concentration of total cholesterol and triglyceride, and then reduce the occurrence of atherosclerosis.
Reducing blood fat and arteriosclerosis can achieve the purpose of regulating blood pressure. At the same time, inhibiting and reducing the synthesis of angiotensin ⅱ, reducing the peripheral resistance of blood vessels can also regulate blood pressure. For mice with hereditary hypertension, the blood pressure of the control group (soybean) gradually increased to 33.3Pa(250mmHg), while the blood pressure of mice with natto remained normal, which was 65438 08.7 kPa (65438 040 mmHg). This is because natto food contains angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, which will prevent angiotensin from becoming active.
regulate the blood sugar
Bacillus natto can persist in the intestine for about 1 week, which can promote the proliferation of other beneficial bacteria. Intestinal bacteria weigh about 1 kg. Of course, it needs bait. The nutrients absorbed by the human body become bait for intestinal bacteria and are swallowed up. In addition, nattokinase can burn fat, so it can lose weight. There is also a sticky substance of natto, which plays the role of leaching and wrapping. Therefore, natto is slow and effective in losing weight and will not rebound. However, it is intuitive that the postprandial blood sugar value shows an obvious downward trend. One is that Bacillus natto devours glucose and mucus, and the other is that elastase (or trypsin E) in natto inhibits the increase of blood sugar. It acts on this enzyme contained in pig pancreas, and elastase from pig pancreas has been used as a therapeutic drug for hyperglycemia.
4. Adjust the stomach, moisten the intestines and relax the bowels, detoxify and nourish the skin.
Bacillus natto was not affected by the strong acid in gastric juice and quickly colonized in the intestine. Pyridine dicarboxylic acid produced by Bacillus natto can effectively kill and inhibit harmful bacteria and viruses in the intestine. Make the intestinal flora achieve a healthy dynamic balance, quickly solve the problems of constipation, enteritis, diarrhea and so on, and give you a healthy intestine. Therefore, the laxative effect of Bacillus natto is immediate. We all know that 50% to 80% of feces are intestinal bacteria and his body. When intestinal bacteria are active, the stool will be unobstructed. This is the reason for defecation. Stool once a day can clear the stool and eliminate toxins. In addition, nattokinase can dissolve thrombus and fat in capillaries, thus ensuring rosy complexion.
5. Slow weight loss does not rebound
Mucin in natto is composed of glutamic acid polypeptide, which has a special structure and similar function to dietary fiber. It is not absorbed in human intestine, and its water absorption rate is higher than that of dietary fiber, and it expands with dietary fiber to reduce fat absorption. In addition, vitamin K2 in natto supports fat burning in the body, prevents fat from accumulating in the body, and realizes a new concept of healthy weight loss. Recently produced natto, made full use of the characteristics of mucin "rejecting fat" and the effect of vitamin K2 "burning fat", and added with the factors of removing blood stasis and slimming, has a good weight loss effect and is really healthy and green.
6. Prevention of osteoporosis
The mechanism of Natto supplementing calcium is that bones are composed of vitamin K2 and high-quality protein, which first forms bone protein, then forms bones with calcium, accumulates bones and increases bone density. Natto contains soybean isoflavone and vitamin K2. Soybean isoflavones can prevent the dissolution of calcium in bones, while vitamin K2 can fix calcium in bones. In other words, the combination of soybean isoflavone and vitamin K2 can strengthen bones together.
7. Significantly improve female climacteric syndrome.
Soybean isoflavone is one of the main phytoestrogens, which has a weak estrogen-like effect. 30 mg isoflavone in natto is equivalent to 100 mg isoflavone in soybean. The menopausal symptoms and postmenopausal osteoporosis in women are mainly caused by the decrease of estrogen level in the body. Daidzein can supplement the deficiency of estrogen in the body, not only can obviously improve menopausal symptoms, but also can prevent and treat female osteoporosis. Considering the detoxification, beauty and weight loss of natto, natto is a very important health food for women.
8. Prevention of floaters
Bacillus natto can not only purify blood, dissolve thrombus blocked in eyeball microvasculature, but also reduce the accumulation of cholesterol on blood vessel wall. In addition, it is also beneficial to prevent cataracts.
9. Hangover and liver protection
After nattokinase enters the human body, it constructs an alcohol protection barrier through three channels: it enters the human liver system, decomposes the pressure on the liver to relieve alcoholism and helps to relieve alcoholism; Enter the human digestive system, quickly form a protective barrier, accelerate acid secretion in the digestive tract, and promote hangover; Enter the human vascular system, form a key protective barrier in the cerebral vascular area, and resist the inhibitory effect of alcohol on the brain. Taking natto can quickly solve the adverse reactions after drinking and prevent drunkenness the next day. In addition, various active substances in natto activate hepatocytes, promote hepatocyte regeneration, improve liver function, protect liver, and effectively prevent and improve fatty liver. Therefore, there is a popular Japanese proverb: "Eat more natto when drinking, to prevent you from being drunk for two days".
10, antibacterial, antioxidant and anticancer effects: Experiments conducted by Nagano Institute of Public Hazards show that the extract of natto can reduce the number of pathogenic Escherichia coli from 0- 157 to below 40. Recent scientific experiments have also confirmed that Bacillus natto has the same inhibitory effect on 0- 157 similar pathogenic Escherichia coli 0- 1 1, 0- 144 and other pathogenic bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella and Listeria. As we all know, isoflavones are antioxidant substances, which can prevent cell oxidation and further prevent cancer. Eating a bag of wet natto can consume 50 mg of isoflavones, which is equivalent to the daily intake recommended by the United States to prevent cancer.
1 1. Natto is rich in Bacillus natto and high-quality dietary fiber, which can inhibit the growth of intestinal pathogenic bacteria, clean the intestine, prevent constipation and improve the digestive system; It also has the beauty effects of removing wrinkles and inhibiting freckles.
There are at least five anticancer substances in natto, especially isoflavones, which can effectively prevent and treat breast cancer.
13. Natto is rich in high-quality protein and lecithin, which is easily absorbed by human body and effectively supplements the nutrients needed by human body.
14, natto contains 22 kinds of trace elements, 18 kinds of amino acids and 10 kinds of minerals necessary for human body. It has a certain dietotherapy and health care effect on preventing children's diseases such as drunkenness, anorexia, hypertension and hyperglycemia.
Natto has many health functions, among which thrombolysis is the most important. Other health functions of natto need further research and development.
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Buying natto in a large supermarket can be eaten directly or mixed with light soy sauce to lose weight; Adding some spices to 50 grams of natto not only has a unique flavor, but also doubles the slimming effect; Mixing 50 grams of natto with chopped green onion can make blood circulation smoother; Eating 50 grams of natto with ordinary kimchi can promote normal gastrointestinal function, not only lose weight, but also help defecate smoothly and prevent constipation. Mixing 50 grams of natto with white radish paste can increase satiety, reduce the total calorie of diet and help to lose weight.
Tips for losing weight: The main components of natto are: water 6 1.8%, crude protein 19.26%, crude fat 8. 17%, carbohydrate 6.09%, crude fiber 2.2% and ash 1.86%. As a kind of physical food, natto is rich in protein and fat. The alcohol contained in natto can help the human body eliminate some cholesterol, decompose acidified lipids in the body, and restore abnormal blood pressure to normal.