Effects of consumption of green tea
Can help Drinking green tea, people with food allergies deal? To answer this question, we examined the effects of consumption of green tea on the Abundance of intestinal bacteria. It has been found that Drinking green tea increases the frequency of so-called FP-bacteria. This seems to protect against food allergies.
In the current study, the Shinshu University in Japan, it was found that green tea appears to protect against food allergies. The results of the study were published in the English scientific journal “Frontiers in Immunology”.
How does green tea on the intestinal flora?
The current research results suggest that certain intestinal allergic microbes to immune reactions. In the study, it was investigated how green tea affects the Abundance of the intestine occurring Flavonifractor plautii (FP) bacteria.
Flavonifractor plautii bacteria are part of the catechin metabolism
FP are a part of the so-called catechin metabolism in the intestine. Catechin is an antioxidant, which is found in a variety of foods, including green tea. 30 to 42 percent of the dry weight of green tea consists of catechin.
FP-bacteria suppress the immune response to food allergies
The research group has found that the oral administration of FP suppresses the Th2-immune response to food allergies strong. Our taken food affects the complex Cocktail of different bacteria strains in the gut. What is the influence of the consumption of green tea, exactly?
Green tea increased frequency of Flavonifractor plautii
The Drinking of green tea increases the frequency of Flavonifractor plautii, what are suppressed, in turn, the Th2-immune response. FP is a strain of bacteria from the family of the clostridia, which is known that it has effects on the immune system and, in particular, inhibits inflammation is. Some clostridia strains can cause a decrease in blood pressure. These are thin and not obese people in Abundance. Therefore, the researchers suggest, also, that these bacteria can be used for weight regulation.
The special food culture, Nagano Prefecture
The investigation involved Shinshu University in Nagano Prefecture, which is known in Japan that there is a variety of fermented food to be consumed with positive health effects. Nagano is unusual, since it has no direct access to an ocean. The here-developed food culture is therefore unique. Due to the mountainous terrain, the people living there had to survive for a long time in the Winter without access to the outside world and a rich food culture with foods such as Miso to maintain.
People in Nagano are particularly old
Nowadays, shows that in the Region of living people have the best health and the highest life expectancy in Japan. This suggests that people in Nagano have the best health in the world. Nagano has one of the lowest costs for medical care of the elderly in Japan, which means that people are living longer, but also healthier.
Further research is needed
The researchers are now working to explore unique, in Nagano and Japan, abundant food, and metabolic processes in the body scientifically. Lessons learned could be shared with the entire world, so that other countries can benefit from the positive effects of the food of this culture. (as)