Drinking tea may ease circadian rhythm disorders

Recently, in a review published in "Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition", Professor Zeng Liang's team from the School of Food Science, Southwest University analyzed the effects of circadian rhythms on the host from the perspective of the "gut-liver-brain" axis.

As we all know, circadian rhythm is an endogenous timing system that controls a series of biological processes in the body with a cycle of about 24 hours, including hormone secretion, metabolic cycling and immune protection, while inducing people's rhythmic natural behaviors

According to the difference in processing, tea leaves are classified into green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea and dark tea

In this review, we explore the challenges of circadian rhythm disturbances to host health from the perspective of the "gut-liver-brain axis"

First, circadian rhythm disturbances are associated with increased glucose and lipid metabolism, nitrogen metabolism, oxidative stress, inflammatory accumulation, and even increased risk of psychiatric disorders such as depression and neurodegeneration

Based on the above theory and evidence, the researchers believe that circadian rhythm disturbance may be one of the key factors leading to metabolic disturbance and increased neuroinflammation in offspring

In addition, researchers believe that tea may have the potential to prevent and alleviate circadian rhythm disturbances, and its important functions are to alleviate metabolic disturbances and reduce oxidative stress and inflammation

The researchers believe that it is time to further explore the potential mechanisms and targets of tea in alleviating circadian rhythm disorders to clarify the preventive and mitigating effects of tea

Overall, new insights into the prevention and mitigation of circadian rhythm disturbances in tea will lead to valuable advances in this field

The harms of circadian rhythm disturbances are multifaceted, the researchers said

(Source: China Biotechnology Network)

"China Food News" (April 07, 2022 Edition 07)

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