Description:
span style="font-size: 14px;">3. Applied in pharmaceuticalfield, it is the raw material of new tradition medicine which isoften added in kidney products.
Functions:
1.Fucoxanthin is being explored forweight loss. So far, only animal studies have been done. Japaneseresearchers have found that fucoxanthin (isolated from wakame)promotes the loss of abdominal fat in obese mice and rats. Animalslost five to 10% of their body weight.
2.Fucoxanthin has also been found inanimal studies to decrease insulin and blood glucose levels.Researchers hypothesize that fucoxanthin anti-diabetes effect maybe because fucoxanthin appears to promote the formation of DHA (theomega-3 fatty acid found in fish oil). DHA is thought to increaseinsulin sensitivity, improve triglycerides and reduce LDL ("bad")cholesterol.
3.Preliminary research in test tubessuggests that fucoxanthin may have anti-tumor effects. No studieshave looked at whether this holds true in humans or if takenorally. It''s far too early for fucoxanthin to be used as acomplementary treatment for cancer.
