{"id":17183,"date":"2016-02-16T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=17183"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:57:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:57:44","slug":"cholesterol-levels-and-kidney-damage-controlled-by-a-microorganism-from-the-sap-of-maguey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/cholesterol-levels-and-kidney-damage-controlled-by-a-microorganism-from-the-sap-of-maguey\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholesterol Levels and Kidney Damage Controlled by a Microorganism from the Sap of Maguey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/savia-maguey-colesterol-e1455760637175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-17190 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/savia-maguey-colesterol-e1455760637175.jpg\" alt=\"savia-maguey-colesterol\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Aguamiel<\/strong>, <strong>which is the sap of maguey plants belonging to the agave family<\/strong>, <strong>is well known in Mexico because is used as prime material to produce an ancient alcoholic drink called pulque<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) announced that <strong>aguamiel contains microorganisms called Lactobacillus brevis that control excess cholesterol in the blood<\/strong>. Therefore it not only may serve to produce the alcoholic beverage, but also can be used to reduce rate of cardiovascular disease and complications such as atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yadira Rivera Espinoza, researcher at the IPN\u2019s National School of Biological Sciences, has conducted this research since 2008, and found that recently extracted sap contains a large number of microorganisms. She tested it for different strains of Lactobacillus brevis, finding new strains that had never been reported in previous scientific literature.<\/p>\n<p>She said that after conducting various toxicological tests to confirm the safety of a substance, laboratory animals with high cholesterol diet were given specific concentrations of these lactobacilli during a week.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the experiment, Dr. Rivera Espinoza and colleagues confirmed that cholesterol levels did not increase in mice treated with those lactobacilli isolated from aguamiel, unlike mice that were feed the high cholesterol diet but did not received the microorganisms.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the researchers gave aguamiel lactobacilli to rats with induced liver damage. They found that enzymes related to damage to liver damage did not increased in those models, while those without treatment suffered an increase in enzymes, which indicate kidney problems.<\/p>\n<p>According with the results, only six strains of Lactobacillus brevis from all the strains tested prevented hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol) and liver damage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><em>Agencia ID<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aguamiel, which is the sap of maguey plants belonging to the agave family, is well known in Mexico because is used as prime material to produce an ancient alcoholic drink called pulque. Now, the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) announced that aguamiel contains microorganisms called Lactobacillus brevis that control excess cholesterol in the blood. Therefore it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-17183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17191,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions\/17191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}