PHYTOCHEMICALS AND FUNCTIONS
DEW-4’s Capsules has 5 main phytochemicals which includes the following: Reducing sugars Saponins Phytosterols Phenolic compounds/polyphenols Flavonoids
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Reducing sugars
Medicinal application of reducing sugars is to enable the right amount of insulin to be produced and utilized to bring blood glucose levels back into the normal range. To control diabetes, a disease in which blood glucose levels are dangerously elevated by a failure to produce enough insulin (type 1 diabetes) or by an inability […]
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Saponins
Have anticancer and anticholesterol activity (Güçlü-Üstündağ, 2007). Although saponins have antibiotic activity and are toxic to fish and insects, they are practically non-toxic to man, remaining within the gastrointestinal tract. Dietary saponins, either isolated or as saponin-containing food plants, lower plasma cholesterol levels in several mammalian species. They are therefore important in human when consumed […]
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Phytosterols
They are absorbed only in trace amounts but inhibit the absorption of intestinal cholesterol including recirculating endogenous biliary cholesterol, a key step in cholesterol elimination (Ostlund, 2002).
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Polyphenols/phenolic compounds
Antioxidants and beyond functions. Current evidence strongly supports a contribution of polyphenols to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and osteoporosis and suggests a role in the prevention of neurodegenerative diseases and diabetes mellitus (Scalbert, 2005).
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Flavonoids
They have good effects due to their antioxidant and free radical-scavenging abilities. Flavonoids can act as pro-oxidant at very high doses, most investigations have reported anti-inflammatory, antiviral, or anti-allergic effects and a protective role in heart diseases, cancer and different pathologies (Martínez-Flórez, 2002).
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REFERENCES
Güçlü-Üstündağ, Ö., & Mazza, G. (2007). Saponins: properties, applications and processing. Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, 47(3), 231-258 Martínez-Flórez, S., González-Gallego, J., Culebras, J. M., & Tuñón, M. (2002). Los flavonoides: propiedades y acciones antioxidantes. Nutrición hospitalaria, 17(6), 271-278. Ostlund Jr, R. E. (2002). Phytosterols in human nutrition. Annual review of nutrition, 22(1), 533-549. Scalbert, A., Johnson, […]
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