Manaku Honey, the Potential Cartilage Repair Functional Food

By Kyle J. Norton

Scientists may have found a golden liquid for the treatment of cartilage damage without inducing any side effects, some studies suggested.

Cartilage is an important structural component placed in the joints of bone with a function to prevent the end of the bone collided from one to another.

Cartilage is a firm tissue but is softer and much more flexible than bone.

Due to the lack of blood vessels connected to the cartilage to supply the chondrocytes with nutrients, repairing the damage of cartilage are more slowly than other tissues.

Cartilage repair is an act is to restore the surface of an joint cartilage. However, how sufficiency of the works is totally depending on the degree of the damage.

In conventional medicine, cartilage damage due to a single injury, or lesion can be repaired successfully. However, with many lesions in one joint, are less likely to benefit from the surgery. cartilage, particularly in older population.

In the article “Articular Cartilage Restoration”, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons wrote, “Many procedures to restore articular cartilage are done arthroscopically” and “Some procedures require the surgeon to have more direct access to the affected area. Longer, open incisions are required. Sometimes it is necessary to address other problems in the joint, such as meniscal or ligament tears when cartilage surgery is done”

Honey is the miraculous product made by bees using nectar from flowers.

The rich golden liquid It is considered one of healthy sweet food for replacing the use of white sugar and artificial sweetener by many people.

With an aim to find the natural ingredient or whole food for the cartilage repair in replacement of that conventional medicine with no side effects, researchers at a number of institutes conducted a joint study to evaluate the nature-derived hydrogels, a promising class of scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering, mimicking the native cellular microenvironment.

Manuka honey made hydrogels able to inhibit the proliferation of S. aureus and S. epidermidis clinical isolates and no cytotoxic effects were detected on human mesenchymal stem cells seeded on the hydrogels.
Manuka honey initiated a consistent expression of collagen II and high synthesis of
Sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and proteoglycans, thus indicating the formation of the cartilage matrix.

Where Sulfated glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans are considered promising artificial extracellular matrix components to improve the regeneration of tissues, such as cartilage repair.

These results suggested Manuka honey processes a similar action as those of synthetic substances used for the treatment to improve cartilage regeneration.

In order to understand the effect of Manuka honey in cartilage repair, researcher launched a differentiation of the research paper “Antibacterial effectiveness meets improved mechanical properties: Manuka Honey/Gellan Gum composite hydrogels for cartilage repair”, Bonifacio et al.

And suggested that before Manuka honey can be used for the treatment of cartilage repair, there are some criteria must be met. you can view them at the sources

Due to the limitation of the study, therefore, further data collection large example size and multi-centers studies performed with human consumption of the whole food during the course of the disease will be necessary to complete the picture of Manuka honey cartilage repair possibilities.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it’s news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma ISSN 0975-6299.
 

(1) Antibacterial effectiveness meets improved mechanical properties: Manuka honey/gellan gum composite hydrogels for cartilage repair by Bonifacio MA1, Cometa S2, Cochis A3, Gentile P4, Ferreira AM5, Azzimonti B6, Procino G7, Ceci E8, Rimondini L9, De Giglio E10. (PubMed)
(2) Data on Manuka Honey/Gellan Gum composite hydrogels for cartilage repair by Bonifacio MA1, Cometa S2, Cochis A3, Gentile P4, Ferreira AM4, Azzimonti B3,5, Procino G6, Ceci E7, Rimondini L3,5, De Giglio E1. (PubMed)