Reader Wang used this website to contact me on September 10, 2024 to inquire:
Professor Lin: I saw a certain pharmacist recommending Glucosaccharide for several times. He said that it can reduce the course of the cold for at least 2-3 days and reduce the severity of the cold. I don’t know what professor you think of Polygonum multiflorum. After searching your blog, I found that you have not mentioned this ingredient. I am your loyal fan. I hope you can hear your feedback. Thank you!The reader said that "I searched your blog and found that you didn't talk about this ingredient" because I wrote "this ingredient" as "β polyglucose", not "glucosaccharide". So, in order to avoid difficulties caused by translation like this, I will use English β-glucan in my next article. (Note: Google translates β-glucan into "β-Glucan", while many Taiwanese advertising only use "Glucan").
In our usual food, the macadamia contains the highest amount of β-glucan (5%-11%). The second is Yan Mai (3-7%). Please see the 2017 paper Clinical and Physiological Perspectives of β-Glucans: The Past, Present, and Future (β-Clinical and physiological views of pelaginol: past, present, and future).
Is the syrup released in 2021 to increase triglyceride? This article mentions β-glucan for the first time, and this article is a turmoil published in "Healthy Magazine"! 5 kinds of people suffer even more from eating mistakes.
"Karmain Magazine" quotes Jiang Weng, a professor at the Institute of Food Science at National Taiwan University, saying: A study published in the 2007 "Nutrition Journal" found that β-glucan contained in ginger can increase triglycerides. Therefore, Professor Jiang believes that the advantage of manufacturers in promoting Yanxi Mac-related products is that it is "suspected to be misleading!"
In fact, the argument that "Yanxi Mac is harmful to health" is popular in 2023. According to my investigation, the source should be Eric Berg, a popular fake doctor. Please see "Doctor" being actually verified. Hong Kong's YouTuber "White Soldier" is the one who secretly learns Eric Berg. He flies in the video and talks seriously about how terrifying Yanma is and how to harm our health. Please see if Yanma will eat more and more diseases? .
As for the truth, please read the three articles I mentioned above, and the more you eat Yanmai, the more sick you get? The American Career Association strongly recommends it.
Okay, now you can come to talk to the "β-glucan" that readers are concerned about can reduce the course of colds and the degree of seriousness. The article he posted was a supplementary Glucosmic Dolosaccharide cold season published by "Xiaohua Pharmacy" in his "Community Pharmacy Notes" to let you get away from your upper respiratory tract infection. One of the paragraphs is: According to the 2021 combined analysis, the natural ingredient of Glucosaccharide has a significant effect on preventing and reducing these symptoms. In the case of patients who often take glucosaccharide, the chance of upper respiratory tract infection is significantly reduced, with a decrease of nearly 65%. In addition, if the infection is unfortunately infected, the duration of the symptoms will also be shortened, and the average course of the disease will be reduced by about 30%.
The "Comprehensive Analysis of 2021" mentioned in this paragraph is a brief description of the paper Effects of yeast β-glucans for the prevention and treatment of upper respiratory tract infection in healthy subjects: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Yeast β-Glucans for the prevention and treatment of upper respiratory tract infection in healthy subjects: a systematic review and meta-analysis).
The article does indicate that yeast β-glucan seems to prevent and treat upper respiratory tract infections, but its conclusion is more pertinent. It says: these findings suggest that yeast β-glucan has an important effect on human upper respiratory tract infections. However, because the included studies are of high quality and small quantity, more high-quality research and clinical trials are required.
In other words, there are certain studies that show that yeast β-glucan helps prevent upper respiratory tract infection, but overall, the evidence is still insufficient.
No matter what, this pharmacist has a website called "pharmacist's choice", which specializes in selling various health products, and the only sound of "high-unit yeast β-Glucosaccharide" is "adjust the quality". The problem is, is the quality of the body adjusted, and how to judge? In fact, if you say that "adjusting the quality" is just a clever word used in health products advertising habits..
It is certain that yeast β-glucan health products are helpful for environmental protection and resource reuse because it is extracted from the after-deep yeast. Please see
2022: β-Glucans from Yeast— Immunomodulators from Novel Waste Resources (&beta from yeast;-Glucan— immunomodulators from new waste resources)
2022: β-glucans obtained from beer spent yeasts as functional food grade additive: Focus on biological activity
2023: Food By-Products and Agro-Industrial Wastes as a Source of β-Glucans for the Formulation of Novel Nutraceuticals β-The source of glucosaccharide, used to prepare new health products)
2024: Extraction Methods and Characterization of β-Glucans from Yeast Lees of Wines Produced Using Different Technologies (&beta in wine yeast slag produced by different technologies;-Extraction methods and specifications of glucosaccharide)
Original text: Can glucosaccharide prevent colds?Responsible editor: Gu Zihuan