>Nattokinase - made from natto miso?
Natto is a separate process from miso, but they tested artery plaque with statins, with nattokinase, and control. The nattokinase group (6000 FUs) had less arterial plaque than the statin group and no one knew why.
Japanese men have higher blood pressure (they drink more), they smoke more, and their avg cholesterol is higher, but their heart disease is 1/3 American rates. This is somewhat due to black Americans (as they’re more prone to heart disease) but the numbers are still way higher.
Natto and other dietary factors (huge amount of Omegas in fish and anti-oxidants in tea) are seen as the reason why.
Yes.
I have worked with many people using things like nattokinase.
It is classified as a highly-fibrinolytic (fibrin digesting) enzyme.
Others are: serratiopeptidase/serrapeptase (silkworm), lumbrokinase (earthworm), chymotrypsin (human).
Fibrin is the universal protein in scar tissue and debris in the body. It accumulates with age. In fact, a clinical def8nition of death by natural cause is often fibrosis of the viscera - hardening of the organs, with loss of function. It is a factor in many conditions, such as fibromyalgia and fibroid tumors.
Partially digested proteins that enter the blood stream (via leaky gut) can cause autoimmine reactions.
Circulating immune complexes that become perpetual, leading to chronic inflammation, are also proteins.
Systemic Enzymes - formulas based on one or more highly-fibrinolytic enzyme, are effective at breaking down these various ptoteins in the body.
I generally prefer a nutritional approach to most situations. But systemic enzymes are the most potent and useful non-nutritional (although natural) supplement I have ever found.
They originated in Germany, as Wobenzyme, in 1959.
Although nattokinase is mostly associated with digesting arterial plaque, it has broader applications like the others.