Modern scientific research, confirmed through animal experiments, clinical trials, toxicology studies, safety evaluations, and epidemiological surveys, has demonstrated that various extracts of the "golden flowers" in Fu Brick Tea activate PPARγ and PPARδ. Two new active substances, Fu Tea素 A and Fu Tea素 B, have significant effects in reducing body fat compounds, blood lipids, blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. Long-term consumption of Fu Tea can promote metabolism regulation, enhance physical fitness, delay aging, and provide effective pharmacological health benefits and disease prevention.
The special effects of Fu Tea have been widely recognized by experts in the fields of tea science, medicine, and microbiology. The saying "Better to go three days without food than one day without tea" and "One day without tea leads to stagnation, two days without tea leads to pain, three days without tea leads to illness" have been fully proven by thousands of years of drinking practice.
1. Multiple Pharmacological Functions of Tea Polysaccharides in Fu Tea
1.1 Tea Polysaccharides Lower Blood Sugar
The sweet and mellow taste of tea polysaccharides, and the fact that aged dark tea becomes sweeter with each infusion, are both related to the content of tea polysaccharides.
Tea polysaccharides effectively lower blood sugar by enhancing glucokinase activity through antioxidant effects. Hormones such as adrenaline, thyroxine, and glucagon can raise blood sugar and accelerate the breakdown of liver glycogen, but only insulin can lower blood sugar. Therefore, the blood sugar-lowering effect of tea polysaccharides is related to their ability to protect and stimulate the secretory activity of pancreatic islet cells.
1.2 Tea Polysaccharides Lower Blood Lipids
Hyperlipidemia is a major cause of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in humans. Tea polysaccharides can combine with lipoprotein lipase, promoting arterial wall lipoprotein lipase activity and thereby exerting an anti-atherosclerotic effect.
Clinical experiments conducted by the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital have proven that Fu Tea can reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease and delay aging.
1.3 Tea Polysaccharides Have Anti-coagulation and Anti-thrombotic Effects
Tea polysaccharides exhibit significant anti-coagulation effects both in vivo and in vitro, reducing platelet count and prolonging blood clotting time, thereby affecting thrombus formation. Additionally, tea polysaccharides can enhance the activity of fibrinolysis. Thus, tea polysaccharides can act on all stages of thrombus formation.
1.4 Effects of Tea Polysaccharides on Immune Function
Pharmacological experiments on humoral and cellular immunity with separated tea polysaccharides have shown that they significantly enhance dual-phase immune responses, while also tending to lower blood sugar, serum cholesterol, and triglycerides. This is of great significance for the prevention and treatment of age-related degenerative diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, and can also improve immunity in the elderly with weakened resistance.
1.5 Other Biological Activities of Tea Polysaccharides
The scavenging effect of tea polysaccharides on hydroxyl free radicals indicates that they also possess various biological functions, including anti-radiation, anti-tumor, anti-viral, blood pressure-lowering, hypoxia tolerance, and increasing coronary blood flow.
2. Pharmacological Effects of Special Amino Acids
Research has proven that γ-aminobutyric acid has a significant blood pressure-lowering effect, improves cerebral blood circulation, increases oxygen supply, and enhances brain cell function. Some reports also indicate that γ-aminobutyric acid can improve vision, enhance liver function, activate kidney function, and alleviate menopausal syndrome.
3. Pharmacological Effects of Tea Pigments
Research results indicate that theaflavins are not only effective free radical scavengers and antioxidants but also possess various physiological functions such as anti-cancer, anti-mutation, antibacterial and antiviral activities, improving and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and treating diabetes.
Experiments have shown that theaflavins have significant antibacterial effects against Clostridium botulinum and intestinal Bacteroides. This antibacterial effect is necessarily related to the fact that dark tea does not easily spoil.
Theaflavins have significant anti-coagulation effects, promote fibrinolysis, prevent platelet adhesion and aggregation, inhibit the proliferation of arterial smooth muscle cells, lower serum triglycerides and low-density lipoproteins in hyperlipidemic animals, increase serum high-density lipoproteins, and significantly inhibit ACE enzyme activity while lowering blood pressure.
4. Pharmacological Effects of Natural Selenium-Rich Tea
Fu Tea is the most typical natural selenium-rich tea. Selenium is an essential component of the human enzyme glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX). It stimulates the production of immune proteins and antibodies, increases the body's resistance to diseases, and has significant effects in treating coronary heart disease and inhibiting the occurrence and development of cancer cells.
5. Pharmacological Effects of Tea Saponins
Tea saponins have hemolytic effects, cholesterol-lowering effects, antibacterial effects, as well as molluscicidal activity, anti-coagulant activity, sedative activity, anticancer activity, and blood pressure-lowering functions.
6. Other Pharmacological Effects
Fu Tea can promote the enzymatic digestion of proteins by pepsin and trypsin, improve human intestinal and gastrointestinal functions, and significantly inhibit lipase activity, thereby inhibiting intestinal fat absorption. Therefore, Fu Tea has unique effects such as promoting human metabolism and reducing body fat compounds.
In addition, lipopolysaccharides and tea polyphenols in Fu Tea have anti-radiation effects, making it very beneficial for people who frequently watch TV or operate computers.
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