On September 12, #Auntie ate 3 years of enzyme intestines surface like snakeskin # rushed to the top of the hot search. Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter learned that at present, enzyme products have a lot of products on the e-commerce platform, and the top few products in terms of sales volume have monthly sales of more than 10,000 pieces. However, some insiders said that the so-called enzymes cannot play the role claimed by merchants.
Recently, a 63-year-old grandmother Wang was received from the Bottle Kiln Branch of a hospital group in Hangzhou (Yuhang Third Hospital). Grandma Wang said that she had been constipated for many years and wanted to come and see how to adjust her stomach. Doctors suggested she do a colonoscopy. During the colonoscopy, the doctor found that Grandma Wang's intestines were covered with brown-black patterns, like "snakeskin". Grandma Wang said that because her constipation has not been good, I heard that laxative enzymes are very useful, so I bought it to try. Grandma Wang found that after using enzymes, the toilet was indeed much smoother. In this way, Grandma Wang began to rely on enzymes and ate them for three years.
"Snakeskin" intestines are colonic melanosis, "this is a typical colonic melanosis," said Du Yechun, deputy director of the Department of Gastroenterology (Endoscopy Center) of Yuhang Third Hospital. Colon melanosis is caused by phagocytic cells of the colon wall engulfing brown pigment-like substances, resulting in pigmentation of the intestinal wall. In layman's terms, it is that the large intestine eats more pigment and becomes a black intestine. "In recent years, there have been many patients with colon melanosis, which are common in patients with habitual constipation and those who pursue beauty and weight loss effects." Du Yechun said.
Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter searched on the e-commerce platform and found that there are many kinds of enzyme products, and some e-commerce platforms have generated "sub-catalogs" of enzyme products, listing categories such as enzyme jelly, enzyme stock solution, enzyme powder and so on. In the product sales ranking, the first ranked products have a monthly sales volume of more than 50,000 copies, and most of the top ten products also sell more than 10,000 pieces per month. Not only does the product page claim that it can "suck away the 'sugar oil garbage'" and "refreshing and smooth", but many users also say in the evaluation that "the oil drain effect is sticky" and "there is less meat on the stomach".
Li Dong, a registered dietitian, said that in the health myth, enzymes can be called the most absurd. Because the human body simply cannot absorb foreign enzymes. What are enzymes? In fact, it is "enzyme", "enzyme" is its japanese expression. "Enzyme" is a highly efficient biological catalyst, a substance that accelerates the activity of cells, and its efficiency is thousands to hundreds of thousands of times that of chemical catalysts.
Enzymes as a protein, their function is often single and unique, a radish a pit, a key a lock, can only be used for special purposes, there is no "generality" and "omnipotent". In short, the enzymes needed by the human body can only be made by the body itself, and it is impossible to supplement them through foreign sources. There is no point in taking enzymes from outside, whether it is a homemade enzyme drink or an enzyme pill. Because of the enzymes produced by plants, the human body does not need them at all. Secondly, any enzyme that enters the body by oral administration must pass through the stomach. In the stomach, enzymes are completely broken down by gastric juice and are not absorbed by the intestines at all.
Why are some enzymes widely "praised" by users and considered useful? Li Dong said that in addition to psychological factors, it is very likely that some bad merchants have added drainage ingredients to enzyme products in order to increase the effect of "smoothness".
Du Yechun said that colon melanosis is mainly caused by anthraquinone laxatives, which can stimulate large intestinal peristalsis, and the effect is remarkable in the short term, but long-term use will cause intestinal peristalsis weakening, intestinal blackening and even cancerous consequences. Now there are many detoxification, beauty, laxative products on the market, and the "bottom detail" of these products is unknown. Du Yechun suggested that the general public should not blindly believe and take it at will.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Xin
