Can Walnut Serve as a Magic Bullet for the Management of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease?

Applied Sciences

Mi-Young Kim¹  Sang-Woon Choi¹ 

[1] Chaum Life Center, CHA University, Seoul 06062, Korea;

关键词: walnut;    non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD);    non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH);    one-carbon metabolism;    dyslipidemia;    lipotoxicity;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app11010218

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Walnut contains many nutrients and bioactive components such as essential fatty acids, polyphenols, fiber, ɤ-tocopherol, folate, minerals, and vegetable protein, and has therefore been regarded as a natural functional food. Walnut-enriched diets have been demonstrated to be useful for heart health, cancer prevention, and metabolic disorders owing to their anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory properties as well as for the maintenance of a healthy metabolism and immune function. Walnut extracts, either phenolic or lipid, also demonstrated the health effects in animal and cultured cell studies. More recently, the beneficial effects of walnut consumption on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which is a hepatic manifestation of obesity, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and metabolic syndrome with substantial hepatic accumulation of triglyceride, have been proposed because walnut and a walnut-containing diet can modulate the etiologic mechanism such as ameliorating systemic and hepatic dyslipidemia, reducing lipotoxicity and inflammation, enhancing immune function, and maintaining gut microbiota balance. Through the extensive literature review we discuss the preventive roles of walnut in the development and progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and provide mechanistic insights into these effects.

【 授权许可】

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