What does phosphatidylcholine do for the body?
What is Phosphatidylcholine?
Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is also known as Nervonic Acid compound. Extracted from natural soybeans. It is an active substance in cell membranes, especially in brain cells. The main function is to improve the function of nerve cells, regulate the transmission of nenve impulses, and enhance memory function. Due to its strong lipophilicit, it can be rapidly absorbed into the brain through the blood-brain barrier, helping to relax vascular smooth muscle cells and increasing the effect of cerebral blood flow.
What Is The Function Of Phosphatidylcholine?
1.Delay aging
Through the intake of phosphatidylcholine, the metabolic capacity, self-healing capacity and the regeneration capacity of the antibody tissue can be improved, the vitality of the human body can be enhanced, and the aging of the human body can be fundamentally delayed.
2.Vascular scavenger, prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems
It can emulsify and decompose fat, and can emulsify cholesterol and fat attached to the blood vessel wall into fine particles, so that they are dissolved in the blood and transported back to the liver for metabolism. It can soften blood vessels, improve serum lipids, and remove peroxides.
3.Strengthen the brain and improve intelligence, prevent senile dementia
Phosphatidylcholine can maintain the normal function of brain nerve cells while repairing damaged brain cells and opening up the obstacles between the brain and blood circulation, and enhance the function of the brain nervous system, thereby achieving the effect of preventing senile dementia.
4.Protect the liver
Scientific proof: Supplementing lecithin can enhance the metabolism of liver cells, promote fat degradation, and protect the liver.
5.Lower blood sugar
Phosphatidylcholine can enhance pancreatic function, repair pancreatic cells, lower blood sugar, and effectively transport glucose in the blood to cells
6.The main components of biofilms
Phosphatidylcholine can promote mental conduction, improve brain vitality, and because of its good emulsifying properties, it can effectively prevent cholesterol from precipitating on the blood vessel wall and remove part of the sediment
7.Promote skin metabolism
Supplementing phosphatidylcholine to the skin can repair damaged cell membranes, increase the fatty acid unsaturation of cell membranes, improve the function of membranes, soften and rejuvenate them. At the same time, it also has the effect of promoting skin metabolism, promoting the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, and improving skin water retention and gloss.
What Is The Application Of Phosphatidylcholine?
Phosphatidylcholine is used in the field of food and added to various beverages and foods as Functional Food additives;
Phosphatidylcholine is used in the field of health care products, and is widely added to various health care products. It has the functions of protecting the liver, strengthening the brain, and reducing blood sugar.
Applied in the field of cosmetics, widely added in cosmetics, it has the effect of delaying aging, firming the skin, and making the skin smoother and more delicate.
What Is The Determination Method Of Phosphatidylcholine？
HPLC
Phospholipids from various sources are mixtures of phospholipids with different molecular configurations, and have differences, which brings certain difficulties to the separation and detection of phospholipids. The length of unsaturated acyl chain and the degree of unsaturation of each phospholipid molecule from different biological sources are similar. Low volatility, high temperature resistance, weak UV absorption, poor stability. Therefore, qualitative and quantitative analysis of various phospholipid molecules in complex mixtures has certain technical difficulties. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) can separate phospholipids at room temperature and enable rapid, sensitive and accurate quantitative analysis of phospholipids. Therefore, its application in phospholipid analysis is increasingly extensive and in-depth. According to the different stationary phase, the liquid chromatography for separating phospholipids can be divided into normal phase chromatography and reverse phase chromatography. The separation method of phospholipids by normal phase chromatography is shown in Table 1-2. Silica gel column is used as stationary phase, and CN cyanide column, NH2 amino column and DIOL diol column are also reported. The mobile phase includes chloroform-methanol-ammonia water, n-hexane-isopropanol-water and acetonitrile-methanol-water. Adding ionic inhibitors such as 85% phosphoric acid, ammonium acetate, 30% ammonia water and acetic acid to the mobile phase can effectively improve the peak shape and inhibit the chromatographic peak tailing.
Purification Method Of Phosphatidylcholine
Solvent extraction method
Using organic solvent for extraction, it has the advantages of large production capacity, short cycle, easy continuous operation, easy to realize automation, solvent price is relatively cheap, easy to recycle and so on. The principle is to use the different solubility of each phospholipid component in some solvents to separate lecithin from other components. The lipids in phospholipids can be removed with acetone, and the temperature, solvent dosage, solvent concentration, pH value, extraction times and other conditions and factors must be controlled.