Peptides in food

Since ancient times, people worried about the aging process in the body. This is closely related to the question of what peptides are and what role they play in this process.

Aging begins with a decrease in the rate of biochemical reactions, slowing down the work of the heart, brain, liver and other organs. Our whole life exists thanks to two molecules: peptide proteins and DNA. DNA itself is not active, it is only a matrix, a basis. Only by combining its specific parts with peptides, the synthesis of specific proteins is read and life arises.

Peptides transfer information from one cell to another, ensuring the timely performance of their inherent functions. If the cell properly performs its functions, then the entire organ works well and remains healthy for a long time. That is why it is necessary to create all conditions for maintaining a permanent reserve of these substances in the body.

Peptides in foods can extend life expectancy up to 30%. Even in old age, peptide therapy is very effective.

To think about the prevention of age-related changes is reasonable from the age of 35. To do this, you need to properly organize the regime of the day, pick up a program for restoring the body based on peptide bioregulators (these are drugs that inhibit the aging process).

Contains peptides in foods, especially dairy. There are also a lot of them in cereals, legumes, chicken meat, fish, soy, rice, eggs, buckwheat, corn, barley, some seafood, shellfish, radish. Experts argue that there are no contraindications to the use of products with peptides. Of course, it is necessary to select them taking into account the individual characteristics of the organism, but no doctor will recommend not to use them.

The peptides used in food when ingested in the stomach are digested and hydrolyzed. The importance of food for replenishment of natural stocks of peptides in the body is unquestionable.

According to statistics, a person eats about 60 tons of food for his life on average. However, not all of them benefit. Doctors say that food should be functional, that is, it should consist of natural products that can improve the functioning of organs.

For the first time that it is necessary to eat the contained peptides in foods, seriously thought about after it was found that the casein-containing phosphorylated peptides improve the action of vitamin D.

In the last decade, a lot of such products have been discovered in which peptides are present. In the course of their natural processing in the digestive tract, they are released from the structure of proteins in which they are contained, and begin to act as regulatory units that have their own activity. They have different mechanisms of action.

Such peptides, which are in the products, are "short", that is, they consist of only 2-9 amino acid residues. The longest peptides are found in grains of barley and soybeans. From the intestine, peptides are transported to those organs whose regulation of work is calculated.

Peptides released after digestion of milk and yogurt are able to flow even into the bloodstream. In this case, two long peptides enter the plasma. The substances in milk play an important role in the growth and development of man, protection from pathogenic bacteria, viruses.

Peptides are widely used in cosmetology, especially anti-aging. In the composition of many cosmetic products, manufacturers include elastin, collagen, wheat germ and soy proteins. Recently, synthetic peptides, which have a higher ability penetrating deep into the layers of the epidermis, have begun to be used.