09/01/2020
Preventive and Therapeutic Role of Functional Ingredients of Barley Grass for Chronic Diseases in Human Beings
Barley is the fourth most important cereal crop in the world and has the highest dietary fiber content; its malt for functional food is not only the world's largest material for beer, but also often used as one of 300 species being used in Chinese herbal medicine. Regular consumption of whole grain barley and its hydroalcoholic extract reduces the risk of chronic diseases (diabetes, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease, etc.
Barley grass powder is the best functional food that provides nutrition and eliminates toxins from cells in human beings; however, its functional ingredients have played an important role as health benefit. In order to better cognize the preventive and therapeutic role of barley grass for chronic diseases
The following are the ingredients and its functions to the human body.
1. GABA and Amino Acids
Gamma-aminobutyric acid is an inhibitory neurotransmitter that reduces neural excitability in the mammalian central nervous system with three subclasses of receptors, namely, relaxing, antianxiety, and anticonvulsive; alleviates pain; regulates sleep; and increases cognitive and reproductive effects
2. Flavonoids
Higher dietary flavonoid intake associated with gastric cancer risk decreased in European population according to study.
3. Enzymes
Barley Grass contains 300 enzymes of body utilization, such as superoxide dismutase, catalase, guaiacol peroxidase, ascorbate peroxidase (APX, cellular imaging), aspartate aminotransferase (association with vitamin B6), cytochrome oxidase and hexokinase (association with mitochondria), deoxyribonuclease, fatty acid oxidase, malic dehydrogenase (allosteric regulation), nitrate reductase, RNase, P4D1, nitrogen oxyreductase, peroxidase, peroxidase catalase, phosphatase and some others.
4. Minerals
An increase in K+ intake is a major nutritional approach in preventing hypertension, heart, and Alzheimer's disease as well as improving cognitive performance by decreasing inflammation and oxidative stress. Chronic kidney disease can cause cardiovascular disease and mortality, which is related with vascular calcification and abnormal electrolytes; however, hypocalcemia can cause mortality in patients with heart failure . Due to their sulfide and quercetin mechanism in the treatment of chronic diseases, garlic and onion have anticancer properties; prevent cardiovascular and heart diseases; have anti-inflammatory properties; reduce obesity; have antidiabetic, antioxidant, antimicrobial, neuroprotective, and immunological effects; and so on]. Barley Grass contains the highest mineral content,
5. Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll and heme are the fundamental pigments of life. The biosynthetic pathways of methane production include chlorophyll, heme, and vitamin B12
6. Vitamins
Fruit and vegetable (400 g/day) are associated with higher blood vitamin contents, especially antioxidant and B vitamins . Diabetes is an oxidative inflammatory stress disease; however, it is necessary to monitor their vitamin B12 contents . High vitamin C is used as homeostasis of brain-resident microglia . Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent worldwide, which can prevent diabetes, cancer, depression, and so on. Vitamins can treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (VE) and chronic hepatitis C virus (VB12 and VD), reduce gallstones (VC), aphthous stomatitis (VB12), and inflammatory bowel disease (VD and VB1), and so on
7. Polyphenols
500 polyphenols are distributed across a wide variety of foods; a protective role of dietary polyphenols against chronic diseases includes preventing cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer, due to their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, and improving blood pressure and lipids as well as insulin resistance, which may reduce the risk of all-cause mortality
Barley Grass has the complete abundant nutrition including chlorophyll, superoxide dismutase, lutonarin, saponarin, vitamins, minerals, and eight essential amino acids , but heat will destroy lots of nutritional values. Barley sprouts with saponarin showed anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities; Barley Grass possess lots of health effects which include antioxidant, hypolipidemic, antidepressant, and antidiabetes.
Preventive Chronic Disease of Barley Grass
Barley Grass has lots of health effect, such as hypolipidemic, hypoglycemic, preventive constipation, and anticancer, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory activities.
Daily consumption of barley grass powder promotes sleep; regulates blood sugar and pressure; enhances immunity and liver function; detoxifies acne skin; improves gastrointestinal function; prevents constipation; has anticancer and anti-inflammatory effects; alleviates atopic dermatitis; loses weight and hypolipidemic; reduces gout and hyperuricemia; prevents heart disease; has bone injury recovery, lustihood, and anti-fatigue effects; repairs memory; has antiaging effect; and so on
The Benefits of Barley Grass powder intake.
1. Promote Sleep
2. Antidiabetes
3. Regulating Blood Pressure
4. Enhance Immunity
5. Protective Liver
6. Beauty Anti-Acne/Detox
7. Antidepressant
8. Improve Gastrointestinal Function
9. Anticancer and Functional
10. Anti-Inflammation and Functional
11. Antioxidants
12. Hypolipidemic
13. Antigout/Hyperuricemia
14. Preventive Cardiovascular Diseases
15. Antihypoxia/Anti-Fatigue
16. Preventive Constipation
17. Alleviated Atopic Dermatitis
18. Preventive Heart Disease
19. Calcium Supplement
20. Improve Cognition
21. Preventive Other Diseases
(Source: US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health)
