Functional ingredients and their effect on human health

Functional products contain components useful for the human body and thereby have a positive effect on health

The composition of these products includes components useful to the human body such as: dietary fiber, inulin and elamine. Dietary fiber presence in the product makes it useful for humans, since these fibers are not digested in the upper gastrointestinal tract, but are perfectly fermented by the intestinal microflora, stimulating the active growth of beneficial microorganisms, they ensure the normal functioning of the digestive system and the body as a whole. Inulin as a natural polysaccharide contains 95% of fructose. Due to its properties, the use of inulin makes it possible to obtain a product with reduced caloric content without deterioration in taste and texture. At the same time, inulin is a natural substitute for sugar, which allows making full or partial replacement of sugar in the product.

Inulin has such useful properties as:

  • the ability to remove radionuclides and heavy metals from the body;
  • increasing the number of beneficial bacteria (as a natural prebiotic);
  • improvement of the lipid process (getting rid of bad cholesterol);
  • stimulating the growth of bone tissue, and this - the prevention of various diseases of the skeleton. This is achieved due to the positive effect of inulin on the absorption of calcium. Studies have shown that prolonged ingestion of inulin (during the year) leads to an increase in bone density of more than 25%;
  • strengthening the immune system, since the lymphoid tissue, which consists of a quarter of all cells of the intestinal mucosa, very positively reacts to the introduction of inulin into the body. Improving the state of lymphoid tissue leads to an increase in the resistance of the bronchial tree, ureters, mucous membranes of the entire gastrointestinal tract;
  • has a beneficial effect on the liver. Inulin in combination with drug therapy enhances its effect in the treatment of hepatitis B and C.

Elamine is a natural curative and preventive food supplement from brown seaweed kelp. Elamine surpasses in the content of iodine all other products of vegetable and animal origin several thousand times. Elamine supplies the body with the necessary macro- and microelements (calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, etc.), vitamins of the group A, B, D, and E. The composition of Elamine includes up to 40% of mineral substances in an organically bound form. These mineral substances participate in processes of absorption, secretion of hemopoiesis, blood coagulation, isolation from the body of the final metabolism products. They are necessary for the functions of muscle contraction, nerve conduction, interstitial breathing.

Mineral substances that are part of Elamine, take part in the implementation of various body functions:

  • participates in the processes of metabolism, blood clotting, excitability of the nervous system and muscle contractility, regulate the work of the myocardium;
  • participates in metabolic processes in the kidneys, regulate the excretion of metabolic products by the kidneys;
  • takes part in the processes of intracellular and intercellular exchanges, the exchange of proteins, carbohydrates;
  • participates in the work of muscles and nervous system (transmission of nerve impulse, etc.), regulate the function of maintaining the neutral state of the nervous system, activate many enzymatic processes;
  • possesses a vasodilating and diuretic action;
  • plays an important role in energy transfer (ATP, creatine phosphate), maintaining acid-base balance;
  • is part of hemoglobin, myoglobin, enzymes and insulin, is involved in oxidation-reduction processes;
  • participates in the synthesis of amino acids and hematopoiesis, fat metabolism, as well as the transfer of genetic information, liver function;
  • participates in the synthesis of the most important connective-tissue proteins - collagen and elastin;
  • participates in the functions of endocrine glands, enzymes, in the regulation of oxygen supply processes;
  • selectively inhibits respiration of malignant tumor cells, their reproduction;
  • regulates the carbohydrate and mineral metabolism, is a part of the bone tissue, stimulates the growth of the body and work of skeletal muscles;
  • affects the full utilization of fat, a more stable level of cholesterol;
  • controls the energy metabolism, affects protein-fat, carbohydrate, water-salt metabolism, egg maturation;
  • • affects the physical and mental development of a person, prevents the development of cretinism, caused by a lack of micro- and macroelements.

Clinical studies have shown that the addition of Elamine supplement to the diet contributes to the improvement of functions of various vital human systems, especially positively affects the development of the child's body.