AHCC

What’s Shiitake Mushroom Extract AHCC？

Product Information

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Biological activity and efficacy

Immune regulation:

α-glucan can activate various immune cells, such as macrophages, T lymphocytes, and B lymphocytes, enhancing their activity and function, promoting the secretion of cytokines (such as interleukins and interferons), thereby regulating the immune response of the body, improving immunity, and enhancing resistance to pathogens, which helps prevent and alleviate the occurrence and development of infectious diseases.

Antitumor activity:

By activating the immune system, α-glucan can enhance the body’s immune surveillance and killing ability against tumor cells, induce tumor cell apoptosis, inhibit tumor cell proliferation and metastasis, and may also have a certain anti-angiogenic effect, reducing the blood supply to tumor tissues and limiting tumor growth and spread. In some studies on the adjuvant treatment of tumors, mushroom α-glucan has shown potential application value, but it should not be regarded as a single tumor treatment drug, but as part of a comprehensive treatment plan.

Antioxidant activity:

It has the ability to remove free radicals in the body, such as superoxide anion radicals and hydroxyl radicals, reducing oxidative damage to cells, protecting the structure and function of biological macromolecules such as cell membranes, proteins, and nucleic acids, thereby helping to delay the aging process and prevent the occurrence of various chronic diseases (such as cardiovascular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases), and working synergistically with other antioxidants (such as vitamin C and vitamin E) to enhance the body’s antioxidant defense system.

Hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effects:

To a certain extent, it can regulate blood glucose and lipid metabolism, improve insulin sensitivity, promote glucose uptake and utilization, and lower blood glucose levels; at the same time, it can reduce the levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the blood, increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, which is of positive significance for the prevention and improvement of diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and related cardiovascular complications. However, the specific mechanism of action is not yet fully understood and may be related to the regulation of liver and intestinal metabolic functions, inhibition of fat synthesis and absorption, etc.

Application fields of AHCC

Medical and health care field:

As an immune modulator and adjuvant therapeutic drug, it is used in the development of various health products, functional foods and medicines to enhance human immunity, prevent diseases and assist in cancer treatment, etc. It can be made into capsules, tablets, oral liquids and other dosage forms for consumers to take, and can also be added as raw materials to traditional Chinese medicine compound preparations or modern biopharmaceutical products to expand its application range and therapeutic effects.

Cosmetics field:

Due to its antioxidant and moisturizing properties, it is widely used in the cosmetics industry and added to skin care products (such as face creams, lotions, essences, etc.), which can help the skin resist the damage of free radicals, reduce the formation of wrinkles, increase skin elasticity and luster, maintain skin moisture content, delay skin aging, meet consumers’ demands for beauty and skin care products, and improve product quality and market competitiveness.

Food industry field:

It can be used as a natural functional food additive to develop health foods with health care functions, such as being added to beverages, dairy products, baked goods, etc., to increase the nutritional value and health benefits of products, enrich the types and functional characteristics of foods, adapt to the trend of consumers’ pursuit of healthy foods, and also provide new product research and development directions and market growth points for food enterprises.