Guohui Su, graduated from Northeastern University in 1973; received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977; was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999; and was elected as an Inventor Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015.
Guohui Su has been engaged in research on the development, plasticity and regeneration of the mammalian visual system. In 1985, he achieved the first long-distance axonal regeneration of retinal ganglion cells in adult mammals by means of peripheral nerve transplantation.
More than a decade of research to demystify the miraculous health and disease prevention effects of goji berries.
Through his research, Su Guohui found that the role of goji berries are far more than just bright eyes, it has many effects such as neuromodulation, anti-tumor, cell protection, etc. It has preventive and therapeutic effects on Alzheimer’s disease, depression, retinal diseases, etc.
He believes that with the advent of an aging society, there will also be a high incidence of various geriatric and chronic diseases, and that Chinese Goji Berry, as a representative of medicinal food, will play an important role in preventive medicine.
“You can eat it every day, even I have been eating goji berries every day for more than a decade, for anti-aging is very useful.” Academician Su suggested so.
Goji berries can protect the nervous system
Scientists have found that the development of Alzheimer’s disease (dementia) is associated with the accumulation of toxic substances inside the brain, with the appearance of senile plaques in the brain and the increase of nerve fiber knots, and three toxic substances have been found to be associated with it, beta amyloid, glutamate and homocysteine.
After animal experiments, it was found that the cerebral cortex of healthy rats, after the addition of toxic beta amyloid, showed a large number of cell death, while the health of the cells was much better if LBP was added. Similarly, for glutamate and homocysteine, LBP can also reduce the toxicity of these substances and lower the number of cell death, thus playing a role in protecting brain nerve cells.
Su Guohui stressed that it has been proven through experiments that goji berries can play a role in delaying the onset of neurological diseases.
Depression is associated with brain inflammation Goji berries eliminate inflammation
In addition to delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, goji berries are also effective in treating depression.
It was found that the brain structure of depressed rats differed from that of healthy brains in many ways, for example, the frequency of nerve cell generation was much higher than normal. After giving these depressed rats a product containing LBP, it was found that the depressive behavior of these rats was gone and they became like normal rats, having difficulty resisting the temptation of sugar water, and the power generation of their brain nerve cells gradually returned to normal.
Retinal diseases: Goji berries are helpful in the relief of glaucoma and night blindness
For human vision, goji berries also have a protective effect.
In cases of glaucoma, many patients do not initially realize that their IOP is gradually increasing until the pressure causes massive apoptosis of retinal ganglion cells, causing a portion of their vision and visual field to be affected and eventually evolve into blindness.
Also in animal experiments, LBP was administered to animals that already had glaucoma, and it was found that LBP alleviated the symptoms of glaucoma by mobilizing good intracellular information pathways and regulating good protein expression, thus acting as a protective agent for ganglion cells.
Not only that, LBP can also play a role in protecting the microvasculature, through which the nervous system is supplied with nutrients.