Sesamin Pharmacology
- Antioxidant: Sesamin helps protect blood vessels by scavenging free radicals and ensuring efficient nutrient and oxygen delivery for healthy brain function.
- Bactericide
- Insecticide
- Decreasing fat storage
- Antihypertensive: Sesamin induces nitric oxide and decreases endothelin-1 production in HUVECs, possible implications for its antihypertensive effect.
- Provide liver protection against alcohol and improve liver function:Sesamin is a non-competitive inhibitor of Δ5-desaturase, It inhibits the conversion of DGLA to arachidonic acid, and consequently decreases the formation of proinflammatory 2-series prostaglandins.
- Decrease cholesterol levels, while increasing high density lipoprotein (HDL aka "good cholesterol") levels
- Be an anti-inflammatory
- Skin problem: The experiments in rats shows that sesamin can inhibit the growth of SC (skin cancer) cell. It can protect skin from UV rays.