On the morning of April 12, 2024, sponsored by the Mycological Industry Branch of China Health Care Association and jointly organized by Beijing Qianfang Mycological Science Research Institute, Dingdang Traditional Chinese Medicine (Beijing) Health Management Co., Ltd., and Dingdang Traditional Chinese Medicine (Guangdong) Internet Hospital Co., Ltd., the "Healthy China Action - One Meat, One Vegetarian and One Mushroom Scientific Diet Structure Initiative and Science Popularization Public Welfare Action Postbiotic Health Application Seminar" was officially held in Beijing.
The Healthy China Strategy is the healthy foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the government, associations, enterprises and institutions are all carrying out corresponding work under the guidance of this strategic policy. Therefore, moving the health threshold forward and attaching importance to life and quality of life has become the focus of the work of the health community in academic, scientific research and application. Among them, the popularization of scientific diet is one of the key points of work. The conference took the Healthy China Action as the program, the initiative and popular science of the scientific dietary structure of "one meat, one vegetable, one mushroom" as the background, in accordance with the basic principle of "science and technology are the primary productive forces", grasped the cutting-edge scientific achievements, and aimed at promoting the transformation of science and technology into national health services.
The leaders, experts and scholars who participated in the meeting spanned mycology, traditional Chinese medicine, nutrition, clinical medicine, geriatrics, food safety and other fields, including Li Diangui, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, Zhang Zhiqiang, former deputy director of the Department of Food Safety Standards and Monitoring and Evaluation of the National Health Commission, Chen Zenghua, president of the Beijing Qianfangfang Mycological Science Research Institute, Ding Gangqiang, director of the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gao Fangkun, former director of the Geriatric Prevention and Control Center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yu Zhimin, researcher of the Institute of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Zhou Liqun, vice president of Wudang Medical Research Institute of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Fu Ping, chairman of the Geriatric Nutrition and Food Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, and Zhang Zhijie, guest speaker of the "Lifeline Express" Internet public welfare health class, etc. At the same time, some representatives of enterprises attended the meeting, including Jin Gang, CEO of Dingdang Traditional Chinese Medicine (Guangdong) Internet Hospital Co., Ltd.
The meeting was presided over by Li Ping, senior engineer, deputy director of the National Health Service Standardization Technical Committee of the National Standards Committee, and vice chairman of the China Health Care Association.
Before the official start of the meeting, Vice Chairman Li Ping first spoke highly of the organizers and the event on behalf of the China Health Care Association. She commented that the organizer Qianfang has played a leading role in the development of the fungus health application industry. At the same time, she also elaborated on the positive significance of the application of fungus health to the implementation and promotion of the Healthy China strategy, and put forward some ideas and requirements for the development of the fungus health industry, hoping that everyone can deeply discuss how to promote the standardized development of the fungus health application industry.
After the official start of the meeting, the participating experts actively spoke from their own professional perspectives around the theme of the conference.
Zhang Zhiqiang, former deputy director of the Department of Food Safety Standards and Monitoring and Evaluation of the National Health Commission and current vice chairman and secretary general of the China Health Care Association, spoke first. On behalf of the China Health Care Association, he expressed his warm welcome and sincere thanks to the experts for their support, and congratulated the Fungal Industry Branch of the China Health Care Association on its achievements in academic research, knowledge popularization, and industrial promotion of fungal health application. He said that the development of science requires scientists to constantly meet and collide. He believes that as science develops, so does our understanding of health. Focusing on the theme of the conference, he also emphasized that the factors that affect health, including diet and new resources, including probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics. He earnestly states that there is a very close relationship between the three, and the application of postbiotics is much more complex than that of probiotics and prebiotics. Therefore, the basis for the application of such an anabiotic should first come from scientific research. He also commented that this meeting is an important measure to promote the scientific research, application and policy supervision of postbiotics, which is fully in line with the three basic principles added in the new constitution of the China Health Care Association: that is, the development of the health industry needs to adhere to the health-oriented, science-based, and regulatory standards.
Chen Zenghua, President of Beijing Thousand Bacteria Fang Mycological Science Research Institute, focused on the scientific nature of the dietary structure of "one meat, one vegetable, one mushroom" from the perspectives of natural science, Chinese and Western medicine, and nutrition to the leaders, experts, scholars and entrepreneurs attending the meeting, and introduced the background and thinking of the "fungal biotics" and "fungal postbiotics" systems and related technologies, achievements and applications, and also gave basic definitions of these two concepts. He said that for the intestinal flora, whether it is probiotics, prebiotics, or postbiotics, they are not the only choice. Therefore, with the emergence of the concept of postbiotics, in view of the fact that the core interest of postbiotics is inactivation, the new concept of comprehensive probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics will naturally be born like the concept of postbiotics in the future, which must include "a mixture of a certain number of live microorganisms or inactivated microorganisms and their components and substrates selected and used by the host microorganisms to bring health benefits to the host", and just like synbiotics, it has a pronoun, which can be tentatively named "mycobiotics", which means " comprehensive elements that promote the growth and reproduction of beneficial microflora in the human body". If postbiotics are the development trend after probiotics, then "mycobiotics" will become another basic development trend after postbiotics. The "postbiotic formula" is a major branch of the "mycobiotic" era.
At the seminar, Li Diangui, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, was unable to attend in person due to temporary special arrangements, and in order to show his importance to this meeting, he also recorded a video. In the video, Master Li Diangui believes that mycobiotics and postbiotics are a milestone event in the field of fungal health applications. He said that the basic characteristics of modern science and technology are professionalism and innovation, and its mainstream direction is subtle and meticulous, but the resulting drawbacks are the localization and fragmentation of various achievements, so the overall thinking of traditional Chinese medicine is needed to integrate these achievements. He commented that the concept of mycobiotics and postbiotics spans multiple fields and disciplines such as traditional Chinese medicine, nutrition, immunology, intestinal microbiology, and mycology, and the application of its results is bound to play an important role in laying the foundation for the solution of many health problems.
Yu Zhimin, a researcher at the Institute of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, spoke highly of the importance of the concept of fungal medicine to the development of traditional Chinese medicine. He commented that the fungus medicine is a major breakthrough in the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, which extends the concept of traditional Chinese medicine, expands its connotation and extension infinitely, and enriches the means of human cognition and application, which is of great significance. He also sorted out the history of the application of fungal medicine in the past 2,000 years, and summarized the efficacy of fungal medicine that can cover all aspects of human health, such as health preservation, prevention, and clinical practice. From the perspective of syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine, he not only formulated his own bacterial formula, but also found that it completely corresponded to the representative bacterial prescription used by the postbiotic of the bacterial formula, and believed that the prescription was well-selected, highly targeted, and had clear ingredient content. In particular, he took the Junyao lion's mane mushroom in the formula as an example, and conducted an in-depth analysis, and believed that the formula pays equal attention to the same supplement, and can enhance immunity and relieve fatigue by realizing the double supplement of strengthening, replenishing blood, invigorating qi, nourishing yin, helping yang, and yin and yang.
Ding Gangqiang, vice president of the Chinese Nutrition Society and director of the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, affirmed the views of researcher Yu Zhimin, starting from the therapeutic properties of mushrooms, and believed that although mushrooms account for a small proportion of people's daily life, their health effects play a very powerful role in the human body. Ding Gangqiang started from his own research experience in the detection of fungal polysaccharides, and emphasized the fact that many fungal polysaccharides have been widely used in clinical practice and achieved good results. For the role of fungi in people's daily health process, Ding Gangqiang explained from the perspective of nutrition. He believes that fungi not only have the lowest energy in all foods, but also that everyone should pay attention to their preventive and therapeutic effects on metabolic diseases. He emphasized the severity of metabolic health problems on the continent and traced the cause to diet. He believes that fungi play an important role in solving this major social problem. He explained that the fungal polysaccharides in fungi are directly related to our immunity, so the mushrooms have a wide range of effects. Finally, he hoped that more people could learn about fungi, and believed that through the joint efforts of the experts at the seminar, the health of Chinese people would reach a higher level and live longer.
Gao Fangkun, former director of the Geriatric Prevention and Control Center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and director of the Institute of Geriatrics of Beijing Hospital, believes that the theme of the conference is "one meat, one vegetable, one mushroom", and "protecting the liver and spleen to eliminate the disease" should be added to the end, which is closer to the role of fungal polysaccharides and the postbiotic system of the fungus prescription on health, and also meets the needs of chronic disease conditioning in the middle-aged and elderly. She said that the mainland has entered an elderly society since 1999, and now the number of elderly people over the age of 60 on the mainland has reached the level of nearly 300 million. The elderly are a group with a high incidence of chronic diseases, so it is necessary to strengthen the mainland's medical and public health work in an all-round way. She believes that the elderly have a special physique that is different from other groups of people, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there is a double loss of qi and blood, yin and yang imbalance, etc., and the middle-aged and elderly people who are close to the elderly also show some of these physical characteristics. Therefore, in the field of health of these populations, a new state of equilibrium must be pursued. She believes that the fungal polysaccharide nutrition in mushrooms is an indispensable and important substance for life. She said that mushrooms are a kind of high nutritional value, which is conducive to the consumption and absorption of the elderly, especially its unique fungal polysaccharide nutrition, which is a substance with important biological activity, which is a necessary and irreplaceable life substance for the body. She explained that fungal polysaccharides are bioinformative macromolecules that are of great significance to the polysaccharides on our human cell membranes. She further elaborated on the biochemical mechanisms of fungal polysaccharides from a scientific perspective. She said that fungal polysaccharides are involved in the physiological, biochemical, metabolic and information transmission regulation processes of human life. Therefore, in recent years, the research on fungal polysaccharides, compound fungal polysaccharides, and postbiotics of bacterial formulas has become a hot topic at home and abroad, and has extremely important application value for the nutrition and health care of the elderly. She summarized the analysis that fungal polysaccharides have three major functions, namely resisting tumors, enhancing immunity, and regulating metabolism, and listed in great detail the specific principles of each of the three functions from various experimental data, which is called "biological response regulator". From the perspective of intestinal microbiology, she also believes that fungal polysaccharides have prebiotic properties and can intervene in the structure of intestinal microbiota. Fungi are a special category not only at the cellular level, but also in terms of classification, and the nutrients and metabolites they contain have unique properties. After reading a paper, she concluded that fungal polysaccharides can repair damaged human cell receptors and restore the physiological activity of cells, preventing the occurrence of diseases from the source, which is a blessing for the general public.
Fu Ping, a member of the Chinese expert group of the National IDDS, an expert in the evaluation of health food and FSMP of the State Food and Drug Administration, and the chairman of the Geriatric Nutrition and Food Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, first affirmed the views of many previous experts, and elaborated on the classification of human physique from the perspectives of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, emphasizing the important role of nutrition in physical fitness and disease prevention. She believes that the nutrients in the fungus are very rich. In view of the fact that Professor Gao Fangkun has fully explained the role of fungal polysaccharide nutrition, she focused on other nutrients in fungi, including high content of protein, vitamins, trace elements, etc., and spoke highly of the importance of the dietary structure of "one meat, one vegetable and one mushroom" to the national physical health. She believes that this diet is suitable for everyone who is able to eat. For the postbiotics of the bacterial formula, she believes that the physique of the human body can be adjusted as a whole, and the purpose of healthy Chinese nutrition can be achieved.
Professor Zhou Liqun, chairman of the Health Service and Research Committee of the China Health Care Association and vice president of the Wudang Medical Research Institute of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, also first affirmed the views of the previous experts and said that he would not repeat the explanation. He affirmed the scientificity of the dietary structure of "one meat, one vegetable and one mushroom" from both practical and theoretical perspectives, and believed that this system plays a very important role in human health in the future and is a footnote to a scientific and reasonable diet. He talked about his own clinical experience, and when it comes to the treatment of some malignant diseases, fungi often become the only option, and it is true that good results have been achieved through the application of fungi. After analyzing the dietary structure of our modern people and the various food safety problems they face, he believes that fungi will play a more important role in our future diet and healthy life. He said that up to now, a lot of practice has been done from fungi to prebiotics, postbiotics, mycobiotics, and postbiotics of bacterial formulas, and a lot of basic data has been obtained, which is amazing. He said that although there has been a lot of basic research, including the various roles of fungal polysaccharides, there is still a long way to go in the next step of scientific and technological leadership and integrated innovation. He put forward some views on the application of postbiotics of bacterial formulas, and believed that it is necessary to draw nutrients from the traditional culture of traditional Chinese medicine, adhere to the theoretical guidance of traditional Chinese medicine, continue the road of innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine, and complete the application and development with scientific methods and rigorous statistics. Finally, he also put forward expectations for the refinement, quantification, and standardization of the development of fungi, mycobiotics, and postbiotics.
Zhang Zhijie, a visiting professor of Inner Mongolia Medical College and a distinguished professor of the Naval Medical Research Institute, interpreted and theoretically verified the practical application of postbiotics from the perspective of more than 50,000 statistics. From his own study and practice of traditional Chinese medicine, he deeply felt the physical pain caused by the problem of multiple diseases in the middle-aged and elderly, and entered into in-depth research on these problems. He believes that the root cause of these problems is inseparable from metabolism, and it is especially necessary to pay attention to the body's metabolites that cannot be excreted in time due to long-term accumulation. Therefore, in his long-term practice, he found that the reason why the postbiotics of the bacterial formula can achieve extensive positive feedback under a large sample is due to the regulation of spleen, gastrointestinal and gastrointestinal functions. He said that allowing the middle-aged and elderly to have normal metabolism, excrete toxins from the body in time, and let the flow of qi and blood flow smoothly is the basis for improving the quality of life and physical health of the middle-aged and elderly.
After the meeting, some experts were also interviewed by reporters and gave enthusiastic responses to some key questions raised by reporters.