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How It works?

DIETETIC FIBERS OF CHITOSAN

Are considered dietary fibre polysaccharides those that are not digested by the human gastrointestinal enzymes, are not absorbed and therefore do not produce energy. The fibers act changing physical characteristics of intestinal contents and modifying the absorption of certain substances such as bile salts, cholesterol, fat and so on.

Currently developing the technology applied to foods has reached a high level of refinement and processing, to such an extent that in almost all cases food lost 99% of its fibre content.

In the early seventies emerged a strong interest in the chitosan - a dietary fiber which is found mainly in the animal kingdom - by the need to use the shells or shells of shellfish waste.

Since then numerous research studies have been conducted to find medical applications and biomedical of chitosan.

Some of the properties currently known chitosan are as follows:

  • » It absorbs and traps fat in the digestive tract
  • » It helps reduce body weight
  • » It reduces the levels of total cholesterol
  • » Disminiuye cholesterol linked to lopoproteinas low density (LDL)
  • » Increases cholesterol linked to the high density lipoprotein (HDL), ie the" good "cholesterol
  • » It stimulates wound healing
  • » Act as antacid
  • » It helps prevent constipation

Shares of Chitosan

Chitosan is obtained from the partial acetylation of chitin, which is found naturally in the shell or shells of crustaceans such as crabs, shrimp and lobster, also in the exoskeleton of zooplankton, including choral and aguamala.

Chitosan is not hydrolysable by digestive enzymes in humans, for that reason can be classified as one of the dietary fiber animal. His molecule is similar to the cellulose. However, the chitosan is a cationic polymer which has an amino group at its estructrua chemical, or a polysaccharide nitrogen, which is a feature very different with respect to other dietary fibers. Many features of known chitosan are attributable to its amino group. Among the most notable highlights its hypocholesterolemic action.

The attributes of chitosan is well demonstrated their property antihiperlipedémicas, antihipercolesterolémicas, controlling body weight and stimulate healing.

It has been reported that chitosan is higher than the pectin as an agent hipolipidémico. Under physiological conditions, the chitosan can freeze at least 4 to 6 times its weight in fat. Results suggest that chitosan has a role to interfere with digestion and absorption of fats in the intestinal tract and facilitate the excretion of fat in the stool. These actions indicate that an adequate intake of chitosan may be useful to control and prevent diseases in overweight adults.

A recent research study showed that when administering 3g/día of chitosan in the diet of people is significantly reduced blood levels of total cholesterol and significantly increases the level of serum cholesterol but also combines with bile acids in the tract digestive, and the mixture is formed that is excreted in feces. This results in a reduction in the reabsorption of bile acids, which implies a reduction of the power and consequently low cholesterol levels in blood.

Unlike most of the fibers, the chitosan has a strong positive charge, which allows you to join surfaces with negative charges as fatty acids and cholesterol.

Adding ascorbic acid produces the chitosan still greater excretion of fat through faeces. The increase caused by the effect of ascorbic acid can be explained by a decrease in the viscosity of chitosan, causing an increase in the accompaniment of chitosan and fats. The chitosan does not affect the protein digestibility, this effect is specific lipids.

Chitosan also increases the process of healing wounds. In research studies has been observed that the reepitalización wound in the group which administered the chitosan is higher than in the control group.

This product is not a medicine.