Fucoidan – Japan’s precious immune-boosting nutrient

The Japanese are famous for their healthy and scientific diets, not only that, but they also take advantage of foods with nutrients from nature to enhance health and improve resistance.^1.2 With a long developed medical background, the Japanese soon found a nutrient in their daily foods to help them strengthen their immune system, even considered a “golden key” for the immune system. Effective cancer prevention support. That is Fucoidan – nutrients from brown seaweed found in meals and dietary supplements of the Japanese.²

Nutrients for the immune system come from daily meals

Fucoidan is a nutrient extracted from the brown seaweed Undaria pinnatifida, a traditional food from the ocean of the Japanese.² Research shows that the Japanese have begun to exploit brown seaweed since the 8th century and take advantage of this superior food source until today.³ Fucoidan present in brown seaweed brings comprehensive benefits to the immune system and especially helps prevent cancer, thanks to a unique mechanism of action: activation of immune cells and activation of abnormal cells. often “self-destructive”.^4.5

Undaria pinnatifida brown seaweed is often added to Japanese meals

Preclinical evidences in the period from 2015 to 2020 have shown that fucoidan helps to reduce 60% of H.Pylori bacteria invading the digestive mucosa cells,⁶ At the same time, it produces short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) that help nourish intestinal mucosal cells, thereby effectively supporting the intestinal mucosal immune system.⁷ According to research by doctors Wang Y and Myers SP, after being introduced into the body, Fucoidan will activate natural immune cells, which can inhibit viruses such as influenza virus.^4.5 The trial on subjects also showed that the group taking fucoidan nearly doubled the amount of antibodies against seasonal influenza type B after just 5 weeks of use.⁸

Diet supplemented with Fucoidan helps the Japanese strengthen their resistance and effectively prevent cancer.

Properly supplementing with Fucoidan nutrients to help increase resistance

With great health effects, products containing Fucoidan extracted from natural brown algae have long been used by the Japanese every day as a “double barrier” to help them strengthen their immune system. There are few natural substances that can both activate the natural immune mechanism of cells from within and increase antibodies against foreign pathogens such as However, the recommended dose of Fucoidan is 250mg per day⁹ and users should choose products containing Fucoidan with clear and reputable origin.

Today, with the quality of life and economic conditions in Vietnamese families improving day by day, healthy foods for the elderly are also given much more attention. More specifically, Fucoidan was first researched and added to dairy products for the elderly with advanced production technology, meeting international quality standards. With comprehensive benefits that have been recognized by scientific studies, nutritional products supplemented with Fucoidan will be a valuable gift for the health of Vietnamese families, especially for the elderly and people with disabilities. want to have food to help prevent or help reduce complications and symptoms related to cancer treatment.

References

^first. Shoichiro Tsugane. Why has Japan become the world’s most long-lived country: insights from a food and nutrition perspective. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2020. 75:921–928.

^2. Yu Zhao. Fucoidan Extracted from Undaria pinnatifida: Source for Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods. Mar. Drugs. 2018; 16:321.

^3. Wikipedia. Wakame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakame. Accessed June 17, 2021.

^4. Wang Y, et al. Biological Activities of Fucoidan and the Factors Mediating Its Therapeutic Effects: A Review of Recent Studies. Mar Drugs. 2019:20;17(3):183.

^5. Myers SP, et al. A combined Phase I and II open-label study on the immunomodulatory effects of seaweed extract nutrient complex. Biologics. 2011; 5:45-60.

^6. Chua EG, et al. Fucoidans Disrupt Adherence of Helicobacter pylori to AGS Cells In Vitro. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2015; 2015:120981.

^7. Shang, Qingsen. Revisit the effects of fucoidan on gut microbiota in health and disease: What do we know and what do we need to know? Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fiber. 2020. 23. 100221.

^8. Negishi H, et al. Supplementation of elderly Japanese men and women with fucoidan from seaweed increases immune responses to seasonal influenza vaccination. J Nutr. 2013;143(11):1794-8.

^9. Fitton HJ, et al. Therapies from Fucoidan: New Developments. Mar Drugs. 2019;17(10):571.