Japanese researchers found lutein can prevent red blood cell senescence

    The scientists of Japanese Tohohu University Graduate School recently said, they discovered that lutein enriched in green algae have effect on preventing red blood cell senescence.

    The scientists said, there are a great deal of red cell senescence in Alzheimer’s disease patients’ blood, and the accumulation of phospholipid peroxidation in erythrocytes is the five or six times higher than healthy people. Accumulation of peroxide phospholipid can cause patients’brain tissue chronic hypoxia, and patients' condition worsen.

    Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun reported that six healthy volunteers taken about 10 mg tablet of lutein everyday, after four consecutive weeks, the lutein in volunteers’ erythrocytes increased to an average of 2.8 times than before, meanwhile, peroxide phospholipid in erythrocytes decreased to one-third to the original level.

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