China is the hometown of eating ants, has been 3000 years of history. Early in human the time, our ancestors some animals from preying on ants and robust case be inspired, and began to eat ants.
Application of Ant to do all times and in all health foods, a lot of examples of anti-aging longevity. Yongjia Ming Dynasty years, Shanxi Luliang County foothills in the village of Liang Xu Yin and Yang is one of the elderly people who eat ants and longevity, he collected seeds mountain ants and ant eggs for raw materials, accompanied by Chinese yam, Chinese wolfberry, red dates, bird brain made, such as "Able longevity pill", insist the long-term consumption, physical strength and strong, to live up to near a hundred.

State Farm in Heilongjiang Hongxing Yan Zhongshan elderly, 40 years ago began to catch the ants eat through several years of practice, to explore a set of collection, processing method. Since then, the daily processing of himself eating ants 2 ~ 3 pills, insist 40 years. When 64-year-old had the youngest son, after the 73-year-old grow new teeth, 87-year-old once again grow new teeth, 97-year-old ears are not deaf, eyes are not flowers, clear-minded, energetic.

English explorer of the Amazon River in Brazil, the forest, found in today%27s world is said to be one of the most old people. The women called Turba patch, documents to prove that she has been 231 years old, the locals a great admirer of hers. Turba spot to eat what a panacea, can live more than two centuries? Learn about nutrition and medical experts study found that the elderly has always been the prehistoric diet: eat peanut shell, apple core, vegetables, cacti and so on, she%27s the only animal food to eat is ants. To this end, the United States, Texas, a university anthropology professor Head of the Department of the Palestinian-jen said: "If people used the prehistoric human diet, most of them can live to be 100 years old."

Why ants for human consumption can antiaging for their retirement, longevity does

Homeland medicine, for the birth of the kidney, and human growth, development, aging is closely related. Kidney deficiency caused by aging and lack of close relationship is the lack of kidney deficiency caused by aging one of the main reasons, ants are a mild tonic medicine. Consider a number of Materia Medica, ants salty, sour, temperature, has lung and kidney tonic, Yiqi Yangxue, Tianjing impotence, enhance sexual function, the effect of promoting blood circulation, is a complement rather than dry,祛邪without injury is, Fuzheng evil without leaving the kidney medicine. Yan Zhongshan second elderly grow new teeth, the elderly still have some ability to bear children and the elderly white-haired black eat ants, and ants are the kidney has a direct bearing on the gong.

In recent years, domestic and foreign experts to conduct an in-depth study of edible ants, ants found containing more than 70 kinds of essential nutrients, such as 42% ~ 67% protein, 28 kinds of free amino acids. The eight kinds of essential amino acids, vitamins A, B1, B2, B12, E, etc., 79 kinds of enzymes and coenzymes, calcium, iron, phosphorus, selenium, zinc, etc., especially the most abundant trace elements zinc, 1000 grams of zinc per 230 ~ 285 mg. Pharmacological studies show that ants have Hugan, asthma, sedative, antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, such as a wide range of pharmacological effects.

Zinc by medical scientists and nutritionists as the "flower of life", British East Birmingham hospital hematology expert Kai Tak study found that those who did not senile plaques with high levels of zinc, and senile plaques who have low levels of zinc. Experiment also showed that zinc can promote immunity. While the ants with high zinc, zinc from the ant%27s point of view, consumption of ants can increase the body content of zinc, can delay the process of human aging.

The aged rat liver lipid peroxide (LPO) and cell superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity assay demonstrated that the application of ant aging rat cells can enhance the vitality of SOD and reduce the role of LPO. Superoxide free radicals in the metabolism of living organisms are in the process of a product, it will lead to cumulative damage and membrane lipid peroxide crosslinking biological molecules and lead to various diseases, which eventually led to the body%27s aging and death. SOD in a healthy machine can be inactivated in vivo excessive superoxide anion, and superoxide dismutase to protect the body from free radical damage.